Am elon has several times on twitter made the argument that we don't need litar for driverless cars. And there's in which he might be right and ways in which he's almost certainly wrong. The kind of ai that we have now is cognitively unsophisticated, so there are all kinds of places where humans use a cognitive sophistication to make up for lousiness in other ways. We might really need the lightr right now with the tools we have right now. So i think the not using lightar is just foolish.
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.