what level is he thinking on? the 'Elite' talent needs to go including him. They have had their run and been shown to be incompetent and morally bankrupt and fail upwards at every level. Take a look at yourselves before the country revolts. for real
He's a bit of a black swan to be fair, historical and scientific learnedness, disregard for popular opinion, and incisive sense of where systems are breaking down
Was the long monologue at the start necessary? Cummings finally starts talking at 6:44...They must be a bit short on furniture. Note the stool used as a coffee table! Good improvisation...
6:17 What might be a desirable trajectory for societies and humans, and what is a likely trajectory? So, pick whichever one you want... What are going to be the signal events and how will people really notice that this is going on?
@@ostevoostevo1592 I feel so. This wasn't recorded for the spectator, it was filmed for a targeted audience of invitees in the room where the intro was helpful. The coffee table was a choice as to not block the camera. The spectator only got hold of this later. It was always a 'conversation' and not a lecture.
@@frankbrennan1619 Only as a reverse-indicator .. the man is Dunning Kruger personifed .. He was key in the Covid catastrophe .. Sweden was the guide .. he did everything in Panic mode
the host is absolutely terrible, can't ask questions, can't follow-up questions, can't challenge any of the statements, can't even speak without stuttering or long pauses which kills all the momentum from the guest I see him quite often over the years and years, but it amazes me that he's on the exact same level or even worse than he was
Terrible interviewer. Doesn't know what he wants to ask so makes it as hard as possible for the interviewee to understand and therefore answer the question.
The most obvious step for UK government (and others) is to train a big big AI on civil service data and population data, health data, government debates, policies & more over the last 30 years and then, before a cabinet or special-purpose meeting, ask the AI the questions on the meeting's agenda and submit its answers as "extra guidance" - it will throw up solutions which may or may not be relevant but will certainly be beneficial to the decision processes. Even the budget could be run-through an AI for useful advice that Chancellors may have neglected or forgotten.
@@KGS922Rambled, mumbled. Long boring monologue at start, none pre use, did not know how to interact with the audience or guest properly zero charisma or seeming enthusiasm and that’s just for starters!
@@jbob34345 Ha Ha, Are you, by proxy, the offended one? Have I hurt your "feelings"? If in fact you are a sensitive 10 year old girl then I apologise, but if you are a grown man, then you definitely need therapy and New College needs a more competent interviewer. But then, that's just my OPINION.
@@jbob34345 ....and I say, Oh so happy to be "Mean!" You might want to look at some of the other comments that are due your pointless limp-wristed rebuke.
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
"The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies." Robert Conquest
You might have already seen it but if not, TH-camr Chris Williamson has also done an extensive interview with Cummings that is an excellent watch & listen & our Dominic gives his opinion & overall assessment on Farage....
I am deeply distrustful of Cummings’ claims to have libertarian or classical liberal leanings. When he found himself with influence, his stated preferences were superseded by his revealed preferences, which demonstrated a willingness to abandon those ideals. Dominic Cummings’ claim that “AI might be in control” of governance reflects a low-resolution model that oversimplifies the complex, pluralistic nature of power. Modern governance operates as a distributed network of competing elites-governments, corporations, media, and others-interacting dynamically, with no single entity in control. AI, while influential, functions as a tool within this system, lacking independent intention or unified control. The diversity of AI models further undermines the notion of centralized AI dominance. Cummings’ view neglects the nuanced interplay of human agency, institutional competition, and AI’s role as an advisor, offering an unconvincing explanation for the perceived chaos in governance.
He is so slimy - he never reveals his true beliefs because he is fundamentally undemocratic. He is happy to play puppet master and lie in order to get the outcomes he wants.
@@thefigmaster3519 As shown during covid. He was quite happy for the Nudge Units and Counter Disinformation Unit to command+control narratives, and scare people into submission.
Support farmers in our local community as farming is by far a very difficult way of providing a living for their families and provides good food to local communities. WE MUST SUPPORT THEM AND BRING AN END TO CORPORATE FARMING full of heath harms that no no local farms longer has or would ever SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FARMERS
48:00 Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army General and former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), is a member of OpenAI's board of directors
Axel's father is Alphonse Rudakubana, he was tried by the International Court for the Rwandan Genocide in the 90's. The lawyer who represented him was Kier Starmer who successfully got his extradition removed, & ensured his asylum in Britain.
Musk is the , man to talk about this, Cummings would be far better employed talking about Starmer (but he's far smarter than Gove and that's probably the reason) and his attempt to wreck any peace deal in Ukraine the reason I no longer subscribe to Spectator that's moving from the right to left of centre ground,
Im 17, and can I say please, this is gonna be the most exciting thing to happen. We need ASÍ and we need it now. Finally something interesting happening. Not sure why so many people are moaning about it. Oh and if there is gonna be a brain-computer interface, hook me up FIRST.
@@SuperStargazer666 41 here. alignment Job loss means parents possibly not feeding kids (or themselves. Power concentration etc. Some of this might be temporary, but we are about to get rocked pretty bad before things stabilize.
As much as most of the things and commentators on spectator are absolute drivel lacking all and any nuance, it’s nice that they’ve noticed that many of us do like long form content
Starmer was instrumental in orchestrating the indefinite stay of the extremists father, who was wanted for genocidal crimes in his own country. His son was the perpetrator behind the Southport incident, Starmer has blood on his hands.
@arfurascii2232 Axel's father is Alphonse Rudakubana, he was tried by the International Court for the Rwandan Genocide in the 90's. The lawyer who represented him was Kier Starmer who successfully got his extradition removed, & ensured his asylum in Britain.
Thanks a lot for such an interesting video! In my humble opinion, such a good video needs full English subtitles. The auto-generated subtitles are certainly better than nothing, but it isn't HQ.
Hands on experience is more than intellectual understanding. Automation does not directly equal value. Hands on experience can deliver value. Those people who can deliver better value than aitomated systems, can still do well.
Interesting interview to hear what goes on inside Whitehall. The part regarding scripts where he said ministers were literally given scripts to go through when meeting the PM was surprising but it's a shame Mr Cummings witheld the part that ministers would ratify the script first. It's like he was trying to make it a bigger thing than it actually is. Either that or due to being on the spot he mistakenly forgot to add that, being cynical I lean to the former since he's trying to dismantle the bureaucracy at Whitehall. It just brings me back to that place that we always have to take a pinch of salt with some of the more shocking revelations we come across by people. So based on that I wonder if his mention about synthetic focus groups really is as revolutionary as he describes.
28:30 "There will be one China, it will be united, Taiwan will rejoin, but it should be peaceful, not through bloodshed." How did Hong Kong reunification go? Article 23. So the West no longer promotes or supports democracy? I agree with Cummings' point about automatable white collar work and being unprepared. I have lived through the closing of coal mines, the introduction of CNC (computer controlled) machine tools, etc., and at no stage were the displaced workers trained or supported through the transition. Let's be honest, we discard obsolete people. And the money class will do it again. Universal Income, anyone?
Good evening Spectator and Dominic Exactly, pretty much all of this. Sanity sensemaking brain gym, indeed. One day we may grow up and learn from our repeated mistakes of Gigantic proportion. 💜
The obvious solution is to ask the AI to solve the AI problem for us - bootstrapping. As its first task, have it map out societal changes in work, employment and economics to most advantageously mitigate the problems caused by AI.
Israel cannot survive, 1.7 million people have already left. They are in a downward spiral that cannot be stopped. I highly recommend you watch content from The Duran, RFK. Jr. also recommends them.
Domonic Cummings framed the AI question around "well the British Empire of old was great and now we dont have it". And at present AI does not actually create. It warps what is input into it.
Israeli intelligence wasn’t so smart in preventing Oct 7 - despite numerous warnings. Does than mean they wanted it to happen to justify an annexation?
The New York Times published an article that set out how the Israelis knew every detail of the attack beforehand including its exact timing and location. Make of that what you will.
Good effort to make everyone fall asleep before hearing a political hack talk about a technical subject. We don't need the instant hook of tiktok, but we don't want to be bored to death. What is the point of this?
the purpose of the discussion was to look at AI from a political perspective. a key point of Cummings is that the government at all levels isn't doing anything
He's one of [not many people] actually thinking properly at the edge of politics and AI (and tech in general). By politics I don't mean broad strokes macro things but (say) how to actually do things in practice in the British system, and in the murky gap between rules and power.
Ai used as a proxy for human to human communication is an order of magnitude worst than the worst of social media interactions. It means actually being dishonest to anyone you send a message to.
Exactly. And the woke ideology provides them with rhetorical cover for their pro-plutocrat policies, which includes restricting free speech so their corruption cannot be exposed.
If people loose their jobs to AI on mass.. thats the end peeps. It took 40 years for a few mining towns in the UK to recover, some would say they never did.
When will he face a public interrogation on his views and actions in the Covid thing? I think he was / is barking on this and would like to see him defend his position. Failing that, I find it hard to believe him on much else he has to say, which on its face makes a lot of sense. eg his take on Lee Kuan Yu.
To those in the chat who were most ill bred in their comments about our dear host i hope for their families sake they conduct themselves with more decorum in future.
Think for a moment if you are listening to this guy and thinking how credible he sounds - then thats what he excels at. Now look at the actual disasters the touchstone moments in his 'career' actually leaves behind. Regarding his time at the helm in UK - he alway says its the blob - Whitehall - that is to blame for UK condition. He said he knew how to outmaneouve them and has had his own gameplan and that him (alone) and his superized ego could do it. He gets his moment in the sun - hand on levers of power - more or less running it (Boris Johnson being his glove puppet) and totally blew it - on every scale - personally, strategically, tactically. Same as the brexit trail of crap he left behind. But he always blames everyone else and the 'blob'. Whitehall and conventional gov may be exhausted and inept - but put Dom Cummings in the mix and you will get signiifcant gain of function in that regard. He is the human hand-grenade. Nuclear grade. p.s. He spent quite a bit of time in Russia years ago - working on ???? - and I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I would not find it inconceivable that they have kompromat on him and he is in fact a disruptive Kremlin asset doing some of Putin's best work in the west.
I agree with Dom and wish I had more historical knowledge to back it all up - some words of wisdom indeed. btw AI will be wonderful IMO, as Sam Altman said he believes the Angels are on the side of AI - and at least AI is not corrupt like most humans, sadly. I already prefer listening to good AI text and voices because the standard of English is so good, its an easy listen.
@@GraceHarwood88 not necessarily - machine learning is its own thing. There are many AI creative programs running that programmers are surpised at their outcomes and do not understand why they do what they do.
Having unrealistic expectations is usually a fundamental mistake leading to bad decisions. All the talk here about human beings somehow coming to terms from the fight for resources and power anytime in the near future is totally unrealistic.
There are open source AI LLMs that people can run themselves. For example, I'm currently using them to talk to the robot I'm building so it will be able to take certain actions, whether it's finding my car keys or clearing the table.
We already created the next form of existence when they released "L'Arroseur Arrose and when 3D video games entered the mainstream. Once quantum computing comes online AI will just create a new form of existence anyway.
The founder of the first university department of A.I. at prestigious MIT, Prof Marvin Minsky, said this; "within the next few years , certainly well within this generation we will have artificial intelligence that will equal or surpass human intellect". The date of this confident prediction -? 1968. I didn't know this is 1980's when I was physics grad dazzled by talk of advances in neural networks and absorbing all the sci-fi of terminator...etc. Half century on my job as engineer has barely changed. Sometimes I get useful information from GPT..etc but not much and I don't see any 'gain of function' helping me out in simulation tools I run. In summary - I think most of A.I. is hyped BS. It's always just about to take over and catapult us into a brave new world - much like nuclear fusion. We'll see - but I won't hold my breath.
Maybe we just reached the point where we realise that narratives aren’t true and their purpose was to unite people rather than be useful in describing reality
Serious question - the dangers, or otherwise - outlined in the discussion re AI are dependent for widespread benefit/harm on the internet. Can the internet be closed down?
Don't think he explaned the virtual focus group idea very well. Presumably the data is scraped from arricles which explain what people of certain characteristics generally think. Also importantly it would work if it actually produce a close result to what the focus group would produce (or better in the sense of being more representative of larger groups). Rather than what he said which was people couldnt tell if it was from a real focus group or not.
It was apparently so successful that one of the leading products got pulled from the market never to be talked about again. Dominic complains about the clown show, but he himself is a dancing bear in some respects.
I suggest that most people do not like, or would not like, to be governed or ruled over by people who are most certainly clever and driven but who speak coarsely, wear vulgar clothes and are in some sense Silicon-valley propelled. The 'ad hominem' aspects of what I say here are important. It does appear as if we are, however, being dragged very fast in this direction. (I should say that I have only listened to the first fifteen minutes of this).
as we replaced other human species AI will replace us most likely it appears to me. From the top down, or 1 below the top, as managment and varios other office based roles become obsolete there remains only phsyical tasks humans can do. For the time being, gradually they get phased out too, so the population collapse thanks thanks to the birthrate will see most of hmanity off in the next couple of centuries. after were gone there will be AI which becomes a victim of its own sucess due to its reliance on human imagination to do more than its already capable of doing at that point. there will be a problem that takes imagination to solve and they dont have it. its not like previous examples where technology has changed society, its like an invasive speicies that will replace society. Its the grey squirrel and we are the red squirrels.
It's a human conceit that imagination is some uniquely human activity that can't be replicated by a machine - no, it's as algorithmic as everything else... unfortunately.
Like him or not, he's pretty much the only person in British politics thinking at this level.
(Which itself raises a lot of questions)
what level is he thinking on? the 'Elite' talent needs to go including him. They have had their run and been shown to be incompetent and morally bankrupt and fail upwards at every level. Take a look at yourselves before the country revolts. for real
The British Peter Thiel
I was literally just about to write the same comment….100% agree
Perfectly put.
He's a bit of a black swan to be fair, historical and scientific learnedness, disregard for popular opinion, and incisive sense of where systems are breaking down
Was the long monologue at the start necessary? Cummings finally starts talking at 6:44...They must be a bit short on furniture. Note the stool used as a coffee table! Good improvisation...
6:17 What might be a desirable trajectory for societies and humans, and what is a likely trajectory? So, pick whichever one you want... What are going to be the signal events and how will people really notice that this is going on?
@@ostevoostevo1592 thanks for the warning!! Was reading the comments after a couple of minutes as intro was rather rambling!
Better than using stool as toothpaste
Ye no it wasn’t. Required lots of manual skipping.
@@ostevoostevo1592 I feel so. This wasn't recorded for the spectator, it was filmed for a targeted audience of invitees in the room where the intro was helpful. The coffee table was a choice as to not block the camera. The spectator only got hold of this later. It was always a 'conversation' and not a lecture.
Interesting that now Gove is the Editor that Cummings gets promoted. Not that I'm complaining, Cummings speaks sense on a lot of issues.
Nelson never liked Cummings
Is it correct Gove nicked named Cummings "Lenin!" 😂
@@edmundironside9435 Snooty Nelson hates Farage even more....
Whatever you think about Cummings, he truly is always worth listening to.....
@@frankbrennan1619
Only as a reverse-indicator .. the man is Dunning Kruger personifed ..
He was key in the Covid catastrophe .. Sweden was the guide .. he did everything in Panic mode
What an awful rambler, non structured babbling at times from the interviewer. Bring back the young, very erudite Chinese young lady.
the host is absolutely terrible, can't ask questions, can't follow-up questions, can't challenge any of the statements, can't even speak without stuttering or long pauses which kills all the momentum from the guest
I see him quite often over the years and years, but it amazes me that he's on the exact same level or even worse than he was
😂
Terrible interviewer. Doesn't know what he wants to ask so makes it as hard as possible for the interviewee to understand and therefore answer the question.
It's refreshing to hear a high-level discussion around AI that doesn't ignore the absurdity of the modern political landscape.
Fantastic conversation, really enlightening. Thank you for posting.
The most obvious step for UK government (and others) is to train a big big AI on civil service data and population data, health data, government debates, policies & more over the last 30 years and then, before a cabinet or special-purpose meeting, ask the AI the questions on the meeting's agenda and submit its answers as "extra guidance" - it will throw up solutions which may or may not be relevant but will certainly be beneficial to the decision processes. Even the budget could be run-through an AI for useful advice that Chancellors may have neglected or forgotten.
Who would join a government when you can end up like Dr. David Kelly?
Who do you think killed him?
@@MitchellPorter2025 He killed himself.
This interviewer is insufferable.
Rubbish interviewer but always great to hear from DC.
The first thing AI needs to do is replace this interviewer - good grief!
Too brown
What did he do wrong...?
No
@@KGS922Rambled, mumbled. Long boring monologue at start, none pre use, did not know how to interact with the audience or guest properly zero charisma or seeming enthusiasm and that’s just for starters!
Why was his introduction so long and laborious .
Impressing someone perhaps...
I hate that in talks. Seems to be the norm now
Contents start at 6:50
@@ralphneale6640 he is a university lecturer, that was he does for a living. Habit
Just skip the interviewer. Painful.
Don't be mean
@@jbob34345 Ha Ha, Are you, by proxy, the offended one? Have I hurt your "feelings"? If in fact you are a sensitive 10 year old girl then I apologise, but if you are a grown man, then you definitely need therapy and New College needs a more competent interviewer. But then, that's just my OPINION.
@@bertharius9518 lol, calm down, I just said don't be mean. 😂
@@jbob34345 ....and I say, Oh so happy to be "Mean!" You might want to look at some of the other comments that are due your pointless limp-wristed rebuke.
@@bertharius9518 I think you need to take a walk outside or something you sound crazy.
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
"The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies." Robert Conquest
I'd like to see Cummings work with Farage. The old duopoly needs breaking apart. It's had its time. These two may be the people to do it.
The covid task force running the country? You really weren't paying attention the last 4yrs were you.
They don’t get on unfortunately.
They're prima donnas; it won't happen.
A nazi and a techno fascist would definitely synchronise.
You might have already seen it but if not, TH-camr Chris Williamson has also done an extensive interview with Cummings that is an excellent watch & listen & our Dominic gives his opinion & overall assessment on Farage....
I am deeply distrustful of Cummings’ claims to have libertarian or classical liberal leanings. When he found himself with influence, his stated preferences were superseded by his revealed preferences, which demonstrated a willingness to abandon those ideals.
Dominic Cummings’ claim that “AI might be in control” of governance reflects a low-resolution model that oversimplifies the complex, pluralistic nature of power. Modern governance operates as a distributed network of competing elites-governments, corporations, media, and others-interacting dynamically, with no single entity in control. AI, while influential, functions as a tool within this system, lacking independent intention or unified control. The diversity of AI models further undermines the notion of centralized AI dominance. Cummings’ view neglects the nuanced interplay of human agency, institutional competition, and AI’s role as an advisor, offering an unconvincing explanation for the perceived chaos in governance.
He is so slimy - he never reveals his true beliefs because he is fundamentally undemocratic. He is happy to play puppet master and lie in order to get the outcomes he wants.
@@thefigmaster3519 As shown during covid. He was quite happy for the Nudge Units and Counter Disinformation Unit to command+control narratives, and scare people into submission.
Did chatgpt write that?
why then would he inform the public on what is possible?
Strawman
Support farmers in our local community as farming is by far a very difficult way of providing a living for their families and provides good food to local communities. WE MUST SUPPORT THEM AND BRING AN END TO CORPORATE FARMING full of heath harms that no no local farms longer has or would ever SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FARMERS
i love that the saga cruise enthusiasts are going nuts in the comments because dom is wearing a cap
Not seen those posts but my AI glasses OAP pro package keeps trying to sell me timeshares in Antarctica or playing 3d manga porn
I note that insolent Gen Zs have as much of a concept of respect for elders as they do of appropriate dress in public.
48:00 Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army General and former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), is a member of OpenAI's board of directors
Axel's father is Alphonse Rudakubana, he was tried by the International Court for the Rwandan Genocide in the 90's.
The lawyer who represented him was Kier Starmer who successfully got his extradition removed, & ensured his asylum in Britain.
And £180,000 in legal fees.
@@Orcbotbasher was he found guilty?
@@KGS922 it was just a made up conspiracy theory that circulated on social media.
@@KGS922 Embarrassing that Ncuti Gatwa has provided a worse portrayal of The Doctor than Axel.
@@Orcbotbasher this is a fabricated story. Use google
The question at 1:17:00 was on double speed!
The host is the most boring guy.
But likely way smarter than you in ways that matter. Being entertaining Donald Trump 'smart' is vastly over-rated
Audio is terrible, guys. Please get someone to sort it out
Musk is the , man to talk about this, Cummings would be far better employed talking about Starmer (but he's far smarter than Gove and that's probably the reason) and his attempt to wreck any peace deal in Ukraine the reason I no longer subscribe to Spectator that's moving from the right to left of centre ground,
You realise it’s Douglas Murray’s??? Really …..
What BS lol
Love Listening to Cummings, I wish he had his own Podcast.
It never ceases to amaze what dreadful public speakers many leading academics are. They really should learn how to do it
Im 17, and can I say please, this is gonna be the most exciting thing to happen. We need ASÍ and we need it now. Finally something interesting happening. Not sure why so many people are moaning about it. Oh and if there is gonna be a brain-computer interface, hook me up FIRST.
@@SuperStargazer666 41 here.
alignment
Job loss means parents possibly not feeding kids (or themselves.
Power concentration etc.
Some of this might be temporary, but we are about to get rocked pretty bad before things stabilize.
It's easy to be impulsive, less easy to understand multiple perspectives.
The interviewer set up at the beginning was enjoyable to me.
As much as most of the things and commentators on spectator are absolute drivel lacking all and any nuance, it’s nice that they’ve noticed that many of us do like long form content
Starmer was instrumental in orchestrating the indefinite stay of the extremists father, who was wanted for genocidal crimes in his own country.
His son was the perpetrator behind the Southport incident, Starmer has blood on his hands.
He said he would sacrifice his own family for his communist ideology.
He's a psychopath
False, that's a made-up link.
@arfurascii2232 Please post your evidence to the contrary.
@arfurascii2232 Axel's father is Alphonse Rudakubana, he was tried by the International Court for the Rwandan Genocide in the 90's.
The lawyer who represented him was Kier Starmer who successfully got his extradition removed, & ensured his asylum in Britain.
@@Orcbotbasher do you have sources?
Thanks a lot for such an interesting video! In my humble opinion, such a good video needs full English subtitles. The auto-generated subtitles are certainly better than nothing, but it isn't HQ.
You know things are bad when even Oxford University can't sort out a tin of paint for its columns and doors.
Hands on experience is more than intellectual understanding. Automation does not directly equal value. Hands on experience can deliver value. Those people who can deliver better value than aitomated systems, can still do well.
Excellent speech, thank you
Interesting interview to hear what goes on inside Whitehall. The part regarding scripts where he said ministers were literally given scripts to go through when meeting the PM was surprising but it's a shame Mr Cummings witheld the part that ministers would ratify the script first. It's like he was trying to make it a bigger thing than it actually is. Either that or due to being on the spot he mistakenly forgot to add that, being cynical I lean to the former since he's trying to dismantle the bureaucracy at Whitehall. It just brings me back to that place that we always have to take a pinch of salt with some of the more shocking revelations we come across by people. So based on that I wonder if his mention about synthetic focus groups really is as revolutionary as he describes.
The US is issuing $1TN of new debt every 3 months, it's an ex-country, it has ceased to be.
Synthetic focus groups are fascinating
28:30 "There will be one China, it will be united, Taiwan will rejoin, but it should be peaceful, not through bloodshed." How did Hong Kong reunification go? Article 23. So the West no longer promotes or supports democracy? I agree with Cummings' point about automatable white collar work and being unprepared. I have lived through the closing of coal mines, the introduction of CNC (computer controlled) machine tools, etc., and at no stage were the displaced workers trained or supported through the transition. Let's be honest, we discard obsolete people. And the money class will do it again. Universal Income, anyone?
Good evening Spectator and Dominic
Exactly, pretty much all of this.
Sanity sensemaking brain gym, indeed.
One day we may grow up and learn from our repeated mistakes of Gigantic proportion.
💜
The obvious solution is to ask the AI to solve the AI problem for us - bootstrapping. As its first task, have it map out societal changes in work, employment and economics to most advantageously mitigate the problems caused by AI.
Israel cannot survive, 1.7 million people have already left. They are in a downward spiral that cannot be stopped. I highly recommend you watch content from The Duran, RFK. Jr. also recommends them.
🎯
The Duran?
Kremlin paid Putin apologists. Go away.
Domonic Cummings framed the AI question around "well the British Empire of old was great and now we dont have it". And at present AI does not actually create. It warps what is input into it.
If you only think of AI as fixed within one universal system - AI input in China will be different to USA etc.
I’m not sure what to be scared of the most. The people in ‘control’, the rise of our AI overlords or the Salvador Dalí table holding their water jug.
Really good talk
Israeli intelligence wasn’t so smart in preventing Oct 7 - despite numerous warnings. Does than mean they wanted it to happen to justify an annexation?
The New York Times published an article that set out how the Israelis knew every detail of the attack beforehand including its exact timing and location. Make of that what you will.
@ 🎯🎯🎯
They were delighted for it to happen. Not a false flag, but a green flag.
BS
@@SuzieQ-vt9zpgood argument 👏👏👏
Good effort to make everyone fall asleep before hearing a political hack talk about a technical subject. We don't need the instant hook of tiktok, but we don't want to be bored to death. What is the point of this?
the purpose of the discussion was to look at AI from a political perspective. a key point of Cummings is that the government at all levels isn't doing anything
He's one of [not many people] actually thinking properly at the edge of politics and AI (and tech in general). By politics I don't mean broad strokes macro things but (say) how to actually do things in practice in the British system, and in the murky gap between rules and power.
Like him or loathe him, he’s always an interesting listen
Ai used as a proxy for human to human communication is an order of magnitude worst than the worst of social media interactions. It means actually being dishonest to anyone you send a message to.
What a long way to to say " Less BA's & more BSc's " in the public sector
Clearly you missed Cummings point entirely
@@gazlives Really ?
I'm sure you could find a less suitable way to plan the room. Maybe a less suitable table to place water on. Projection of competence.
Difficult to find a less suitable table. Maybe a rocking horse
We live under oligarchy.
With a (hypa Liberal/ decadent ) Managerial Class enforcing their rule.
Exactly. And the woke ideology provides them with rhetorical cover for their pro-plutocrat policies, which includes restricting free speech so their corruption cannot be exposed.
If people loose their jobs to AI on mass.. thats the end peeps. It took 40 years for a few mining towns in the UK to recover, some would say they never did.
compare the content of this conversation with Rory Stewart's 'contributions'.
When will he face a public interrogation on his views and actions in the Covid thing? I think he was / is barking on this and would like to see him defend his position. Failing that, I find it hard to believe him on much else he has to say, which on its face makes a lot of sense. eg his take on Lee Kuan Yu.
@@martin92177 What's his take there? Haven't come across that.
I'm worried about the Chippendale stool.
I thought I was looking at Bill Murray for a second 😂
That meeting stuff is unbelievable.
Yes, we are
To those in the chat who were most ill bred in their comments about our dear host i hope for their families sake they conduct themselves with more decorum in future.
Think for a moment if you are listening to this guy and thinking how credible he sounds - then thats what he excels at.
Now look at the actual disasters the touchstone moments in his 'career' actually leaves behind.
Regarding his time at the helm in UK - he alway says its the blob - Whitehall - that is to blame for UK condition. He said he knew how to outmaneouve them and has had his own gameplan and that him (alone) and his superized ego could do it. He gets his moment in the sun - hand on levers of power - more or less running it (Boris Johnson being his glove puppet) and totally blew it - on every scale - personally, strategically, tactically. Same as the brexit trail of crap he left behind. But he always blames everyone else and the 'blob'. Whitehall and conventional gov may be exhausted and inept - but put Dom Cummings in the mix and you will get signiifcant gain of function in that regard. He is the human hand-grenade. Nuclear grade.
p.s. He spent quite a bit of time in Russia years ago - working on ???? - and I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I would not find it inconceivable that they have kompromat on him and he is in fact a disruptive Kremlin asset doing some of Putin's best work in the west.
Joe Rogan show today with Marc Andreessen also discussing Cicero Fish Ponds (49mins in) so I guess Marc may have watched this video
Something like the 'synthetic voters' idea was literally in New Scientist this week.
If you can perfectly predict how people will vote or manipulate their perspectives at will why bother even having elections
And yes, I noticed he was mostly rattling off talking points that have been circling twitter
@@jumpstar9000 I think the Chinese would agree with you! And, sadly, I think AI will make us all 'a little more Chinese' in these respects.
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”manipulate their perspectives” in the hands of the enemy could be *how* destructive?
@@GraceHarwood88 "enemy" being out own politicians and government from what we know of Cambridge Analytica and the absolute state of what we see now.
I agree with Dom and wish I had more historical knowledge to back it all up - some words of wisdom indeed.
btw AI will be wonderful IMO, as Sam Altman said he believes the Angels are on the side of AI - and at least AI is not corrupt like most humans, sadly.
I already prefer listening to good AI text and voices because the standard of English is so good, its an easy listen.
AI is created and programmed by man? Whoever sets the program sets the AI.
@@GraceHarwood88 not necessarily - machine learning is its own thing. There are many AI creative programs running that programmers are surpised at their outcomes and do not understand why they do what they do.
He’s spot on with pretty much everything he says but the academics will not listen because he’s telling them the truth !
Having unrealistic expectations is usually a fundamental mistake leading to bad decisions. All the talk here about human beings somehow coming to terms from the fight for resources and power anytime in the near future is totally unrealistic.
There are open source AI LLMs that people can run themselves. For example, I'm currently using them to talk to the robot I'm building so it will be able to take certain actions, whether it's finding my car keys or clearing the table.
Yes..grabbing IP in unequal terms.. SAI caps humanity.
Do you hear that? Hanshan's laughter falling down Cold Mountain.
Is that Dominic’s tech look? 🤣🤣🤣
Steve Slobs
Dress Down Dom!
We already created the next form of existence when they released "L'Arroseur Arrose and when 3D video games entered the mainstream. Once quantum computing comes online AI will just create a new form of existence anyway.
The first guy to publicly flout guidlines with a flourish of BS about an eye test and get away with it.
Because he knew the guidance was junk. Shame he couldn’t just say that.
The founder of the first university department of A.I. at prestigious MIT, Prof Marvin Minsky, said this;
"within the next few years , certainly well within this generation we will have artificial intelligence that will equal or surpass human intellect".
The date of this confident prediction -? 1968.
I didn't know this is 1980's when I was physics grad dazzled by talk of advances in neural networks and absorbing all the sci-fi of terminator...etc. Half century on my job as engineer has barely changed. Sometimes I get useful information from GPT..etc but not much and I don't see any 'gain of function' helping me out in simulation tools I run. In summary - I think most of A.I. is hyped BS. It's always just about to take over and catapult us into a brave new world - much like nuclear fusion.
We'll see - but I won't hold my breath.
Maybe we just reached the point where we realise that narratives aren’t true and their purpose was to unite people rather than be useful in describing reality
What is that table? Is that a metaphor?
A piano stool...
Human/Human-AI/AI only.. this is the set..
Serious question - the dangers, or otherwise - outlined in the discussion re AI are dependent for widespread benefit/harm on the internet.
Can the internet be closed down?
the man who drove to Durham to test his eye sight.
The man who can’t see the wood for the trees. Maybe you should drive somewhere to have your eyes tested.
He reminds me a bit of Lord Percy off Blackadder this guy.
Don't think he explaned the virtual focus group idea very well. Presumably the data is scraped from arricles which explain what people of certain characteristics generally think.
Also importantly it would work if it actually produce a close result to what the focus group would produce (or better in the sense of being more representative of larger groups). Rather than what he said which was people couldnt tell if it was from a real focus group or not.
How dull was this to watch?
No to vaccine passports
did he just say the vaccine taskforce was a success?
too long, didn't watch, but if he said that I know at least 10 people now that would like a word with him... if they could.
It was apparently so successful that one of the leading products got pulled from the market never to be talked about again. Dominic complains about the clown show, but he himself is a dancing bear in some respects.
@@dubgsumm6389 it objectively was successful
95% of people fell for it and got injected so yes
What is the guy in the left on about?
is AI running the uk
i'd welcome any form of intellgence to be running the uk
hell i'd welcome talky toaster as our leader
Soft Spoken is an unusual name
Brillant
I knew the first question would be Broris, give it a rest he's gone. This is about AI not leftist garbage.
I suggest that most people do not like, or would not like, to be governed or ruled over by people who are most certainly clever and driven but who speak coarsely, wear vulgar clothes and are in some sense Silicon-valley propelled. The 'ad hominem' aspects of what I say here are important. It does appear as if we are, however, being dragged very fast in this direction. (I should say that I have only listened to the first fifteen minutes of this).
1:45:00 So the academia Dom now trashes is exactly what he used to take us into lockdiwn via Prof Ferguson's theoretical modelling!
as we replaced other human species AI will replace us most likely it appears to me.
From the top down, or 1 below the top, as managment and varios other office based roles become obsolete there remains only phsyical tasks humans can do. For the time being, gradually they get phased out too, so the population collapse thanks thanks to the birthrate will see most of hmanity off in the next couple of centuries. after were gone there will be AI which becomes a victim of its own sucess due to its reliance on human imagination to do more than its already capable of doing at that point. there will be a problem that takes imagination to solve and they dont have it.
its not like previous examples where technology has changed society, its like an invasive speicies that will replace society.
Its the grey squirrel and we are the red squirrels.
It's a human conceit that imagination is some uniquely human activity that can't be replicated by a machine - no, it's as algorithmic as everything else... unfortunately.
I don't trust people who bamboozle when making a point.
Creativity cannot be automated.
That's why Rachel Reeves is Chancellor.
'And then I went and spoiled it all, by saying something stupid about Israel...'
I wish he could slow down and speak louder, he talks far too fast
Play at .75x speed and turn the volume up, we have the technology 😅
He should be in prison
His crime being?
@@jimbodimbo981 brexit
@anyone I disagree with should go to jail..right I get it now. Thanks
Excellent
The ASI-Singularity will be the only Global Solution, people.