Is That Artificial Intelligence?

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i grew up in the nineties, and we had deep blue versus garry casperov. It was on the cover of news week every week, like, our computers smarter than man. Now, no one talks about chess playing as part of artificial intelligence,. Like a video game can also beat you at supermario brothers. We're not worried or transfixed about this - it's just a fucin algorithm that you write. But there still isn't an unpredictable mind out there made by people.

Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be impressed when it comes to big tech’s AI promises, and how our belief in the fantasy of A.I. could be worse than the reality. You can follow Emily on Twitter at @emilymbender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.