Daily: FRANKENSTEIN IN DIGITAL – The coming AI revolution

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Are we ready to live alongside artificial minds? And why do we still harbour a Terminator-style fear of vengeful machines? Oxford University Professor of Computer Science Michael Wooldridge, author of The Road to Conscious Machines, says we are on the brink of a great transformation in artificial intelligence. He talks to Alex Andreou about deepmind superhuman gamer bots, debunking our fear of Frankenstein’s creation, and why automation means more than robot butlers. “We are with AI where nuclear physicists were in the early 1900s… There is so much unexplored territory.” “We’re nothing special in the universe. We’re just a bunch of atoms bumping up against each other.” “I don’t lose sleep over the Skynet scenario. We don’t need AI to make mistakes with nuclear weapons.” “The Frankenstein story embodies our deep-rooted fear of creating something, and then losing control of it.” Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.0	I am your host Alex Andreo.
1:18.0	My guest today is Michael Waldridge,
1:21.0	head of department, professor of computer science at the University of
1:24.4	Oxford, a senior research fellow at Hertford College, and recently appointed Artificial
1:30.1	Intelligence Program co-director at the Alan Turing Institute. His research
1:34.8	focuses primarily on multi-agent systems drawing on ideas from fields as diverse
1:40.1	as logic and game theory to philosophy and architecture.
1:44.0	He is also a bit of a crossover artist having written two books intended for general consumption by muggles like me.
1:51.0	His latest The Road road to conscious machines, the story of AI, which I kept thinking of as Al,
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