i wrote a piece in march an nautilus magazine called, deep learning is hitting a wall. And the point of it was not that we can't do anything with deep learning, but there are certain recurring prob like i'm talking about now and they were not really solving those. We know how to solve the problem of labelling the person and labelling the stopsign, but we don't know how to reason about people carrying other om goods. It's so primitive. Is really just trying to put one label on each thing. You know, if you stick an umbrella front of somebody's eyes, you might get the same kind of problem where, you know, itt's just
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.