In 2016, AlphaGo defeats the human Go champion. This is China's Sputnik moment,. That is what, particularly because the world champion Kurt Jie was Chinese. And if they were to play a human well champion, they would beat them 1,000 games to zero. But our research group started studying these Go programs and found that they have a fundamental weakness in that they literally don't understand the difference between a live group of stones and a dead group of stones on the board.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stuart Russell, professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence (AI), to talk about working in the field for decades (4:00), AI’s Sputnik moment (7:45), why these programmes aren’t very good at learning (13:00), trying to inoculating ourselves against the idea that software is sentient (15:00), why super intelligence will require more breakthroughs (17:20), autonomous weapons (26:15), getting politicians to regulate AI in warfare (30:30), building systems to control intelligent machines (36:20), the self-driving car example (39:45), how he figured out how to beat AlphaGo (43:45), the paper clip example (49:50), and the first AI programme he wrote as a 13-year-old. (55:45).
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