0023: That Would Just Be Absurd
Are people better than robots?
Are people better than robots?
This episode, we talk about this paper: A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning
We want robot surgeons, bus and taxi drivers and investment advisors. Do you?
Fiction is fun. And, we can’t rely on it to help us figure out what’s going to happen.
Human augmentation may be a way for humans to advance on par with non-biological beings (AIs), but do ethical guidelines make that less likely to happen?
Throughout history there have been doomsayers, yet we’re still here. What makes today’s doomsday scenarios different?
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0015-2016-03-13.mp3 Ted talks with special guest Eric Saumur about AlphaGo, compassion, desires and more.
From now on, we seek to come from a place or empathy on this show, even when it seems to not make sense. There’s nothing to win here.
Ben’s frustrated with us. Let’s see if we can figure out why.
Exponentials are powerful and very difficult to understand (because we think linearly)