For Episode 19, I am joined by Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy to talk about killer robot dogs, poker playing AIs, the control problem, how long we have left before the rise of the machines, what it would be like to be a superintelligence’s pet, and “Metalhead” (Season 4, Episode 5 of Black Mirror), which first premiered in 2018.
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Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville.
He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books including Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach. During his tenure at UofL, Dr. Yampolskiy has been recognized as: Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor of the Year, Faculty Favorite, Top 4 Faculty, Leader in Engineering Education, Top 10 of Online College Professor of the Year, and Outstanding Early Career in Education award winner among many other honors and distinctions. Yampolskiy is a Senior member of IEEE and AGI; Member of Kentucky Academy of Science, and Research Advisor for MIRI and Associate of GCRI.Dr. Yampolskiy’s main areas of interest are AI Safety, Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Biometrics, Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, Games, Genetic Algorithms, and Pattern Recognition. Dr. Yampolskiy is the author of Artificial Intelligence: A Futuristic Approach (Chapman and Hall, 2015), the Editor of Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security (Chapman and Hall, 2018), and he has published numerous journal articles. His research has been cited by 1000+ scientists and profiled in popular magazines both American and foreign (New Scientist, Poker Magazine, Science World Magazine), dozens of websites (BBC, MSNBC, Yahoo! News), on radio (German National Radio, Swedish National Radio) and TV. Dr. Yampolskiy’s research has been featured 250+ times in numerous media reports in 22 languages.
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Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more… so here’s a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:
- Roman V. Yampolskiy, “Rise of the Machines” (YouTube)
- Boston Dynamics’ robots: Spot, Handle, Pick, Atlas, Legacy Robots
- Roman V. Yampolskiy, “From Seed to AI to Technological Singularity via Recursively Self-Improving Software” (arXiv, 2015)
- What is behavioral biometrics?
- Cade Metz, “Inside Libratus, the Poker AI That Out-Bluffed the Best Poker Players” (Wired, 2017)
- Valerie Cross, “Poker Bot Pluribus First AI to Beat Humans in Multi-Player NL Hold-Em” (Poker News, 2019)
- Leigh M. Johnson, “Why You Should Care That Artificial Intelligence Can Lie” Part 1 and Part 2 (January 2020)
- Roman V. Yampolskiy, “Human ≠ AGI” (arXiv, 2020)
- Roman V. Yampolskiy, “Uncontrollability of AI” (2020)