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I think most people who know anything about AI look at the current state of AI and say that this idea of the singularity is nonsense, to put it bluntly. But there are people who believe it, or there's people who believe in slightly less inflammatory versions That we're really getting closer and closer to human-level AI,. whatever we mean by that. And that will be there within the next 20 to 30 years. I'm going to put two types of knowledge on the table and see what you think of this distinction.

Computer Scientist and author Melanie Mitchell of Portland State University and the Santa Fe Institute talks about her book Artificial Intelligence with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Mitchell explains where we are today in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and where we might be going. Despite the hype and excitement surrounding AI, Mitchell argues that much of what is called "learning" and "intelligence" when done by machines is not analogous to human capabilities. The capabilities of machines are highly limited to explicit, narrow tasks with little transfer to similar but different challenges. Along the way, Mitchell explains some of the techniques used in AI and how progress has been made in many areas.