Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Episode 2: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 2, September 6, 2022

Jun 19, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Conversation About AI Hype

1min

The Future of AI

2min

The Importance of a Live Captioner

2min

Can Machine's Learn How to Behave?

2min

The Importance of Understanding Intelligence

2min

The History of Artificial Intelligence

3min

The Disastrous Use of the Word Predict

4min

The Dorspilia of Artificial Intelligence

5min

10.

How to Recognize a Bicycle

3min

11.

The Importance of Speech Recognition

2min

12.

The Power of Knowledge Representation

2min

13.

The Stress Pattern of the World to Calculate

2min

14.

The Concept of Computable Learning

2min

15.

The Evolution of Bicycles

3min

16.

The Importance of Beauty and Justice in AI Ethics

3min

17.

The Ethics of Robotics

2min

18.

Robots for the Imagineer of Us

2min

19.

The Limits of Data in Star Trek

3min

20.

The Role of Language in the Interpretation of Social Action

2min

21.

The Importance of Language Models in Ethics

3min

22.

The Problem With Natural Language Interpretation

2min

23.

The Importance of Annotators

5min

24.

The Importance of Human Judgment

3min

25.

Dare Underscore Institute

2min

Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through, "Can machines learn how to behave?" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, a Google VP who works on artificial intelligence.

This episode was recorded in September of 2022, and is the second of three about Aguera y Arcas' post.

You can also watch the video of this episode on PeerTube.

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.

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