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Gary Marcus on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Brain
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Gary Marcus of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). While Marcus is concerned about how advances in AI might hurt human flourishing, he argues that truly transformative smart machines are still a long way away and that to date, the exponential improvements in technology have been in hardware, not software. Marcus proposes ways to raise standards in programming to reduce mistakes that would have catastrophic effects if advanced AI does come to fruition. The two also discuss "big data's" emphasis on correlations, and how that leaves much to be desired.
Released:
Dec 15, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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