The Michael Shermer Show cover image

292. Gary Marcus — Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

The Michael Shermer Show

00:00

Is There Any Language Program That Could Understand Common Knowledge?

Is there any language program that could understand common knowledge in which words are used in different ways in different contexts? The example, bean, the guy says to his date, no, would you like to come up and see my etchings? And of course, he's not talking about etchings at all. Is there any progum that would understand that kind of language use? Not in general way. So the ai systems that have the deepest level of understanding right now, which is not very deep, are things like syri and alexa That understand very limited things but can act on them. They can up date some internal representations of what's going on.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app