Types of AI and the Speed of Advancement

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Limited memory AI can learn from precedent to make choices
Theory of mind AI can understand user intentions and emotions
Self aware AI reflects on its own actions
Fully autonomous AI sets its own goals and acts independently
Advancements in hardware and cloud storage have accelerated AI development in the last 10 years
Deep learning utilizes multiple layers of networks to make decisions based on previous learning

Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chatbots, what’s changed recently, the potential for good, the possible perils, how different lawmakers are stepping in, and whether or not this is scary dinner party conversation. Do you have feelings about AI and brain implants? Hopefully, and we talk about why.

Buy Dr. Nita Farahany’s books: The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (2023) and The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law (2009)

Dr. Farahany’s 2023 TED Talk: Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech

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