Bats Map the World By Time, Not Distance

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learn about whether you should fear AI; the science of a good selfie; and how bats map the world by time, not distance.

Additional resources from Michael Wooldridge:

Pick up "A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going" at your local bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250770745
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wooldridgemike
Oxford faculty page: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/

Selfies Really Do Make Your Nose Look Big originally aired April 24, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/hubble-telescope-history-selfie-science-and-exerci

Bats map the world by time, not distance by Briana Brownell

A surprising discovery: Bats know the speed of sound from birth. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/tu-asd050521.php
Amichai, E., & Yovel, Y. (2021). Echolocating bats rely on an innate speed-of-sound reference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(19), e2024352118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024352118
How do bats echolocate and how are they adapted to this activity? (1998, December 21). Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-bats-echolocate-an/
Thaler, L. (2015). Using Sound to Get Around. APS Observer, 28(10). https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/using-sound-to-get-around

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:05.0	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today artificial
0:09.6	intelligence researcher Michael Waldridge is back to tell you whether you should be afraid of AI.
0:15.2	You'll also learn the science of a good selfie and how bats map the world not by distance but by
0:20.9	time.
0:21.9	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:24.7	Yesterday, Michael Woolridge told us about why AI isn't as advanced as movies would have you
0:31.0	believe, and why that may not be a bad thing. Still it's a
0:35.4	popular belief that if we make AI too advanced it'll turn on humanity and create a
0:40.8	robot apocalypse. Well today Michael is going to tell us why that isn't too likely.
0:47.0	Michael Waldridge is a professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and he's been at the heart of the AI community for 25 years.
0:57.0	He's also the author of the new book A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence,
1:01.2	what it is, where we are, and where we are going.
1:05.2	And we asked him, is AI something we should fear?
1:09.5	No, that's not the conclusion I draw.
1:11.1	The conclusion I draw is if you are going to use this technology in any
1:16.4	place where it has consequences for human beings, you have to really understand what its
1:21.4	limitations are and I think there's a big, the moment,
1:24.2	there's a big gap in understanding.
1:26.7	I mean, you get, for example, I mean,
1:29.0	let's say, imagine a bank and they want
1:31.0	to have an AI program which makes a judgment about whether somebody gets a loan or not.
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