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We are moving into an age of artificial intelligence.

These tools of productivity, efficiency, and creativity are coming on in leaps and bounds even if they remain incomplete and immature today.

Implementation of AI are becoming priorities amongst top execs and the largest firms all over the world.

Now one big question is how do you make sure your AI systems behave ethically and fairly?

It's a huge issue and it's one I've been exploring since 2015 in my newsletter

Exponential View and over the years I've hosted some of the leading experts on

this subject on this very podcast. I know that ethical AI implementation is top of mind for leaders like you,

so to help you think through the questions of responsibility, accountability and power in the context of AI development, I'm bringing back some of my previous

conversations over the next five weeks.

Now this week I'm bringing back my 2021 conversation with Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive

robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at Deep Mind.

We discuss why common sense remains one of the biggest challenges in

artificial intelligence, how the grand vision of AGI, artificial general intelligence, compares

to the commercial application development, and what the future of AI may have in common

with the aeronautical ingenuity of the Wright brothers. Here's my conversation with Murray.

Murray Shanahan, welcome to exponential view.

It's very nice to be here, thank you and thank you for the very flattering words.

It's 2021 when we're recording this and it's roughly a decade since there were some interesting breakthroughs in what was probably called

computer science back then when a certain new style of neural network was str together with some newish chips and we had

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