Are we ready to live alongside artificial minds? And why do we still harbour a Terminator-style fear of vengeful machines? Oxford University Professor of Computer Science Michael Wooldridge, author of The Road to Conscious Machines, says we are on the brink of a great transformation in artificial intelligence. He talks to Alex Andreou about deepmind superhuman gamer bots, debunking our fear of Frankenstein’s creation, and why automation means more than robot butlers.

“We are with AI where nuclear physicists were in the early 1900s… There is so much unexplored territory.”
“We’re nothing special in the universe. We’re just a bunch of atoms bumping up against each other.”
“I don’t lose sleep over the Skynet scenario. We don’t need AI to make mistakes with nuclear weapons.”
“The Frankenstein story embodies our deep-rooted fear of creating something, and then losing control of it.”

Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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