Artificial Intelligence and You

Guest Oren Etzioni, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, discusses AI's impact in scientific research, the development of Aristo and scaling AI models, the tension between positive and negative aspects of AI, exploring AI technology and the nature of intelligence, and AI progress and settlement of actors' strike.

Guest Oren Etzioni, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, discusses the potential of AI in scientific research, including the creation of tools like Semantic Scholar and Mosaic. AI could transform productivity by understanding scientific literature. Also explores parallels between AI and the human brain.

Pauldy Otermans and Dev Aditya discuss their mission to upskill underserved students globally with their AI teacher Beatrice. They explore the evolution of teaching and learning, the potential of teddy bear interactions, challenges in developing the platform, and alternative teaching approaches.

In this podcast, neuroscientist and psychologist Pauldy Otermans and innovator Dev Aditya discuss their mission to address the global teacher shortage through their AI teacher Beatrice. They explore the challenges faced by teachers, access to education for underserved learners, and concerns about AI displacing teaching jobs. They also discuss their approach to product development, reaching learners for free, and using AI to create a digital human teacher. Stay tuned for the upcoming conclusion where they delve into the science behind the virtual teacher.

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   We're talking with Jaan Tallinn, who has changed the way the world responds to the impact of #AI. He was one of the founding developers of Skype and the file sharing application Kazaa, and that alone makes him noteworthy to most of the world. But he leveraged his billionaire status conferred by that success to pursue a goal uncommon among technology entrepreneurs: reducing existential risk. In other words, saving the human race from possible extinction through our own foolhardiness or fate. He has co-founded and funded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, in Cambridge, England, and the Future of Life Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the conclusion of the interview, we talk about value alignment and how that does or doesn’t intersect with large language models, FLI and their world building project, and the instability of the world’s future.  All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   The attention of the world to the potential impact of AI owes a huge debt to my guest Jaan Tallinn. He was one of the founding developers of Skype and the file sharing application Kazaa, and that alone makes him noteworthy to most of the world. But he leveraged his billionaire status conferred by that success to pursue a goal uncommon among technology entrepreneurs: reducing existential risk. In other words, saving the human race from possible extinction through our own foolhardiness or fate. He has co-founded and funded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, in Cambridge, England, and the Future of Life Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He's also a member of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and a key funder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. In this first part, we talk about the problems with current #AI frontier models, Jaan's reaction to GPT-4, the letter causing for a pause in AI training, Jaan's motivations in starting CSER and FLI, how individuals and governments should react to AI risk, and Jaan's idea for how to enforce constraints on AI development. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Giving us a long perspective on the impact of today's large language models and #ChatGPT on society is Bart Selman, professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He’s been helping people understand the potential and limitations of AI for several decades, commenting on computer vision, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous weapons among other technologies. He has co-authored over 100 papers, receiving a National Science Foundation career award and an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship. He is a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a contributing scientist at the two Asilomar conferences on responsible AI development. In the conclusion of our interview we talk about self-driving cars, the capability of large language models to synthesize knowledge across many human domains, Richard Feynman, our understanding of language, Bertrand Russell, AIs as co-authors on research papers, and where Bart places us on a scale of artificial general intelligence ability.  All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Giving us a long perspective on the impact of today's large language models and #ChatGPT on society is Bart Selman, professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He’s been helping people understand the potential and limitations of AI for several decades, commenting on computer vision, self-driving vehicles, and autonomous weapons among other technologies. He has co-authored over 100 papers, receiving a National Science Foundation career award and an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship. He is a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the first part of the interview we talk about common sense, artificial general intelligence, computer vision, #LLM and their impact on computer programming, and how much they might really be understanding. Bart will also give his take on how good they are, how to understand how they’re working, and his experiments in getting ChatGPT to understand geometry. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

The podcast discusses the impact of generative AI on education, including how it has affected assessments and teaching. It explores the capabilities and limitations of large language models like Chat GPT, using examples from standardized tests. The differences between humans and computers in passing tests, specifically the bar exam, are also examined. The podcast highlights the need to rethink education in the age of AI, emphasizing the challenges of detecting AI-assisted cheating and the historic opportunity presented by AI models.

Exploring the impact of AI on jobs, including the uncertainties and potential risks. Discusses the role of AI in writing and creative industries. Examines income inequality and the need for wealth distribution. Explores retirement benefits and an AI chatbot handling telemarketers.