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FBL78: James Bridle - Using Nature to Rethink Artificial Intelligence

Nov 7, 2022

01:00:47

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Failures of Technology

2min

The Impact of Computation on Society

4min

The Evolution of Ecology

2min

Lessons Learned From Nature

2min

How Slime Molds Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

2min

The Evolution of Hyperaccumulators

4min

The Limits of Artificial Intelligence

6min

The Importance of Recognizing Intelligence

6min

10.

The Limits of the Automatic Machine

4min

11.

The Importance of Trust in AI

2min

12.

The Power of Technology to Influence Decision Making

4min

13.

The Power of Dual Use

2min

14.

The Potential for Total and Radical Change Within Machine Learning

5min

15.

The Trolley Problem

5min

16.

The Strangeness of AI Intelligence

2min

17.

The Hopefulness of Technology and the Future of Climate Change

3min

18.

Server Farm: A Project to Reconstruct the Architecture of Computing

3min

This week our guest is writer, artist and technologist, James Bridle. Famous for trapping a self-driving car with salt in the mountains of Greece, his artworks have been commissioned by numerous galleries and institutions and have been exhibited worldwide. His writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. He is the author of 'New Dark Age' (2018) and his recently published 'Ways of Being' (2022). In this episode, we explore James’ books, with a particular emphasis on the lessons the natural world is teaching us about intelligence and how we can leverage that information to alter A.I.'s development towards something more humanistic and harmonious with the planet.

Find James’ work at jamesbridle.com, or get involved with his latest project at serverfarm.jamesbridle.com

Host: Steven Parton - LinkedIn / Twitter

Music by: Amine el Filali