This year's 20 20 has been on since the pandemic uthey had a lot of episodes that i think captured some real aspects of things that could go wrong. The oplode episode was superinteresting and super beautiful. I don't know if that'll ever happen in real world, but, ah, like, there were a lot that raised kind of philosophical questions around where could this technology go. And we should work toward systems that can do that and will be helpful. But it also hilits like how far we are from that.
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.