Is There Dark Magic in AI?

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When something goes wrong, you often don't know what it is. We do not no how convolutional neural nets do what they do. I thinktha real problem is we've got, there's dark magic in ai,. And if it seems magical to the people who created it, i'm just telling you, you know, run for the hills."

Tesla and other automakers have convinced the public that fully automated vehicles are just around the corner. But what if … they aren’t? Dr. Missy Cummings, AI researcher and director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke, joins Adam to detail the massive gap between Silicon Valley's promises and the technology’s limitations, and explain the real benefits that might come when we use AI to enhance human capability rather than replace us. 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.