Talks at Google
Yuval Noah Harari, macro-historian, Professor, best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus,” and one of the world’s most innovative and exciting thinkers, discusses his newest work, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.”
Described as a “truly mind-expanding” journey through today’s most pressing issues, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” reminds us to maintain our collective focus in the midst of dizzying and disorienting change.
Moderated by Wilson White.
Get the book: https://goo.gl/CVDJzG
Visit Yuval Noah Harari’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/YuvalNoahHarari
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31:33 – This guy, opting out from a free speech made by one of the greatest minds today, should not work in Google.
With all the respect sir, I hope you and the AI engineers have wider knowledge and wisdom about all the areas of life (doctors, lawyers, etc) you want to replace humans with machines than you have in the economics, where you give an exaple of economy is wrong about companies following the people's desires when they produce products and services with the idea that "customer is always right". You can ask any marketing manager (what you obviously never did, AND THAT IS A PROBLEM!!) that the best version of production, sales and marketing which is orchestrated at companies by the higher management (where they want to invest, what is their vision) and the marketing manager and marketing department (who is analysing the market, including what the customer wants, and the feasability and outcomes in sales estimation of what will be markatable). At the end of the day this is how companies survive by selling what people want and how jobs of people survive. So normally these jobs are actually also formed by the demands as well. But let me introduce you a probably very new idea to you – although some of the best of the AI world have already applied it, like Steve Jobs for example – that the art of marketing is not just serving the demands and desires of customers, but DRIVING IT, GOING AHEAD OF IT and offering brand new things that yes, have some touch of the present reality, as a huge gap is usually highly risky that noone will buy it. This is how economy works and this is what the best companies do, this is how they become legend. Do you think you will copy this to machines with a push of a button? I highly doubt it! Machines will never be able to compute all that to create products that humans need, machines will never be able to repleace doctors who actually prepare those studies that your machines will apply. But you know what? Noone can become a master of its area if they are not starting from scratch and they don't have the ability to experience, work for long years, to realise things that need to be changed. I humbly recommend to you and AI investors and engineers to plan these products as second level background tools for doctors, lawyers, truck drivers, taxi drivers and all kinds of areas, and not immediately replace them because as there is a difference between an internship doctor's expertise and a professional with many decades of experience, there will be a huge difference of the approach of the machine and the real doctor. The purpose why to do that is that for the time being only humans are creative enough to realise new areas of research, build researches creatively and decide what the results mean, maybe decide about a new direction of research. As for truck drivers, to defend them as well. Well, sir, do you really think that there would be zero accidents when cars and trucks and taxis will be driven by machines? You better construct a mathematical equation for that and realise that there will be different types of errors, and noone said that it will be less errors than humans do at the time being: parts of machines can be faulty (look at the highly automatized and controlled airline business, there still are huge catastrophies from time to time – not to mention the pollution they cause, that noone calculates as a backfiring side of this advances this type of travelling is giving). We should be WAAAAY MORE HUMBLE in planning these things and with all the respect utlimately saying with this long comment of mine, PLEASE DON'T ASSUME THAT IF YOU CAN CONSTRUCT A COMPUTER AND A MACHINE THAT CAN DRIVE A CAR, OR CAN EVALUATE MEDICAL CONDITIONS, YOU KNOW ALL AND YOU DON'T NEED THE OPPINIONS OF EXPERTS (AND NOT YOUR PERSONAL OPPINION) ABOUT THE RISKS!! I think that with the complexity of the matter which is AI that is definately about to replace many human jobs, THE NEED FOR INVOLVING EXPERTS OF THE GIVEN AREAS TO ESTIMATE THE RISKS of how to design those machines and where to put them, at which level of service of any time, IT WILL BE QUESTION OF LIVES AT THE END, NOT ONLY JOBS, WHICH IS ALSO ECONOMICALLY A HUGE QUESTION. At the end of the day, everything stops if people don't have jobs in masses, according to the present setup, taxes are paid from jobs, there would be no social security at all, and no customers. Your robots will be sitting and waiting for customers all day long. Is that you want? People sitting in probably caves and starving if you don't give an alternative for this. Everything calls for involving of experts in estimating the risks and designing WHERE you put those robots, and I humbly suggest put them in second line, behind people who are actually doing the jobs right now. Yes, it's a bit more expensive, but yes, that IS SAFER for people's lives and levels of living conditions as well. That's what human wisdom says. I speak from the knowledge of having a diploma in international business, of having seen quite a lot of economical and political changes because I'm 50 now, I also have a higher degree in banking and currently study psychology BA 3rd year. Thank you for the opportunity to tell my oppinion. I hope anybody is reading it and considering these reasons when you work out AI systems.
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If Hariri was making these statements in Earlier times, he would have been burnt at stake or stoned or decapitated. Do not ask Questions, Do not Challenge the Established Order.
We are stuck in literature paradigm, developed over last 600 years, time to change, Asking , Questions, Questions, what the Rishes of Vedas did. Hariri is exactly doing that. His profound statements on “GOD”
He is so great !
Three things I've encountered in life that make me feel particularly insignificant…
Astrophysics…
Geology…
…and Yuval Noah Harari
But boy am I glad I've encountered all of them…I know my place….and that place is enough.
This guy is not a scientist, I don't know how google hosted him.
9:27 – riiiiiight…. some people love to whore themselves for cash
"A man with brain" in true sense
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27:30 This guy is speaking with the agenda. The Quran is the truth. Not fake news. Islam has it's strict method to gather information of Prophet Muhammad. All truth. Islam is the updated of Abrahamic religion. You Yuval Noah Hariri is a dumb ignorant. If you're a jew, shame on you. Because your anchestor kill many prophet.
Please read Bhagavad Gita as it is once
We all are part and parcel of supreme consciousness
Art of thinking is very important question
I do not think it is entirely true that the developers of tech tend to naturally focus on only the positive outcomes of their work. If that is true, the world of today would be quite different.
GOOGLE NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED!
Why is this guy so popular again? He's less interesting than 99% of today's "great thinkers", in that he's not controversial, he's captain obvious
What bullshit is that? Of course we know what we need to teach children: reading, writing, algebra, science, history, at least one second language, critical thinking. It's been the same for at least two centuries. 🙂
Google does what the customer wants? In which universe? Google's customers are companies which want to advertise successfully. Does Google deliver that? Not if their average ads are as misplaced as the junk they are sending me. It's almost like all the stuff I am definitely not interested in. Might as well send me to a website for teddy bear home stuffing kits. 🙂
And what's with the free will bullshit? I thought we are talking about the 21st century and he can't even repeat the philosophical insights (false as they might have been) of the 18th? Wow. What a loser. 🙂
He predicted the government breakup of Google
my desire is for goohle to stop censoring
Says the capitalist from Google lol – PASS. Walk away from the hand that feeds, bite it hard and deep, then I will respect you. Not before.
https://youtu.be/jPGyWfwwCTo
well google just got a case against it to break it down, so really great prediction at 29:17
Harari knows everything and more.
This talk was one of the best that I already heard in all my life
His arguments on A I and the concepts of God are nonsense. These folk are slaves to their passions and think they're smart enough to justify their sins with post modern ideas and rhetoric that's based on evolutionary science – seems to me he's a Cambridge educated Jewish man who believes the anus is a sex organ and that women can wear pants.
So thankful for the discussion about the history and historical events. So yesterday also discussed with Mr facebook owner Mark jukarbarg, about global environment, and what we thinking about it, now technology can change the world and human being, and it is very fast today, now adays we have to think not bound in around himself as a man, nation, and world wide up to now we were thinking like before but now this time is everyone can think as globally. I think that is the central Idea in my opinion.
Genial… una hora de enteder el presente y proyectar el futuro.
Harari believes that we are machines and that our actions and decisions are deterministic – we can be controlled by those who understand how we are "programmed" and what "state" we are in, and all that has to be done to make us behave in a particular way, is to push our buttons….
So, according to Harari, there is no such thing as free will. That means that we can't be held responsible for anything we say or do. Then all the responsibility rests with those who are pushing our buttons. But they themselves are deterministic machines, therefore they can't be held responsible for pushing the buttons either. So – who pushed their buttons? Whoever it is, must have had their buttons pushed – and we get into an impossible, self perpetuating circular argument, a self-perpetuating perpetual motion machine. Hmmm.
A worrying concept. If true, then we're all doomed.
But – and here I am following Harari's own advice – if I make use of my emotional intelligence, I will chose to be positive and say that he is wrong:- there is such a thing as free will.
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