On AI, it's kind of bringing it back away from war and back to kind of like society. Do you feel like we are entering a new phase in computing where it will kind of eat everything in the way? The one place I worry about that happening is in the self-driving car area because a lot of people don't know the first self-drivingCar driving itself on a freeway or motorway as it turned out in Germany in 1987.
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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