mask has been promising driverless cars since two thousand 15, saying they're like, a year away. But that's not really true, because in two thousand 15 he said it was a year Away. So there's like a mackerel level hom homade. Shouldn't say the word if i can't say it im about imagining that that a i is kind of magical in all things. And it actually breaks down at every level. If you do believe that it is a magic power, then either it's going to be the saviour of the universe or the end of the universe. and we have people on both sides of the coins.
With the internet abuzz over the firing of a Google engineer who came to believe that a company chatbot is sentient, AI expert and deep learning skeptic Gary Marcus joins Alex and Ed to discuss the state of artificial intelligence. From LaMDA's alleged sentience and the problems with the Turing Test to Gary's proposed bet with Elon Musk and AI's role in autonomous driving, this wide-ranging conversation explores some of the most interesting topics in technology.