Future of Life Institute Podcast

Maya Ackerman is an AI researcher, co-founder and CEO of WaveAI, and author of the book "Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us." She joins the podcast to discuss creativity in humans and machines. We explore defining creativity as novel and valuable output, why evolution qualifies as creative, and how AI alignment can reduce machine creativity. The conversation covers humble creative machines versus all-knowing oracles, hallucination's role in thought, and human-AI collaboration strategies that elevate rather than replace human capabilities.

LINKS:
- Maya Ackerman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Ackerman
- Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us: https://maya-ackerman.com/creative-machines-book/

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CHAPTERS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(01:00) Defining Human Creativity
(02:58) Machine and AI Creativity
(06:25) Measuring Subjective Creativity
(10:07) Creativity in Animals
(13:43) Alignment Damages Creativity
(19:09) Creativity is Hallucination
(26:13) Humble Creative Machines
(30:50) Incentives and Replacement
(40:36) Analogies for the Future
(43:57) Collaborating with AI
(52:20) Reinforcement Learning & Slop
(55:59) AI in Education

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What is Future of Life Institute Podcast?

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.