There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
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episode 11: 6.11: Very Thoughtful Ethics Dogs
Reflecting on the limits of AI, and the limits we should put on AI.
Show NotesAI is coming and it’s going to take all of our jobs! …or, not, depending on who you ask and how optimistic they are or aren’t about the limits of AI as we understand it today. Regardless: how should we think about roboticizing all the jobs?
LinksA telling quote:
OH (from an awesome Lyft driver): “Today has been great. I’ve been blessed by the algorithm.”
Immediately had an eerie feeling that this could become an increasingly common way to describe a day.
—@kcolemanHyperion AI – truly independent AI in sci-fi
AI in Healthcare
Boston Robotics Dog
The polar bear problem paper
A popular-level discussion of teh generalization problem
And the same applied to roadblocks for automated cars
The DeepMind papers
AirBnB’s machine learning-powered sketching tool
Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
Previous episodes reference on the show:
6.10: The Future of Something Like Work
6.06: A Kind of Blindness
3.08: Juice of the Weird Edges of the Ecosystem
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