DOES A.I. SCARE YOU? WILL A.I. MAKE US SMARTER, BETTER, MORE PRODUCTIVE OR WILL A.I. BE THE END OF CIVILIZATION, THE END OF THE HUMAN ERA?

The Great America Show

Fawcett Strategies

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Gary Marcus says there are lots of risks around Artificial Intelligence systems and we’ve moved so quickly, we need to slow down to understand where we are. No one truly understands these new technologies, what the limits are and how they should be used. Marcus is concerned about misinformation and foreign governments disrupting our elections with misinformation and no one able to tell the difference. We also don’t have an answer to the Terminator scenario. What if the machines (A.I.) turn on us? Marcus doesn’t think it’s plausible but we have no proof that it won’t happen. A.I. systems are very interesting. We don’t control them, we don’t understand them. We call them black boxes because we put in a lot of data and we’re unsure what comes out, exactly what will happen. Technology leaders, including Gary, say we need to pause research and development to make these systems more trustworthy and reliable. A.I. governance regulation is not a Right/Left issue and we might see a surprising amount of unity on the issue of controlling A.I. We want our computers to do what we want them to do. We really don’t have that yet. It’s a nightmare science fiction story when the computer goes out of control.

GUEST: GARY MARCUS, COGNITIVE SCIENTIST, AUTHOR, AI/ML ENTREPRENEUR

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs and this is the Great America Show, we welcome you great
0:05.0	to have you with us.
0:06.6	The big story of the week that is right after the breaking installments from the running
0:11.0	drama at Fox News is the 6am video announcement from the White House that the world's greatest
0:18.1	living puppet president, who is 80 years old, impaired and compromised, has after careful
0:25.2	deliberation, deep prayer, earnest consultation with his family, and humble counsel with
0:31.5	President Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky, he has made up his mind, and Mr. Biden has
0:38.7	decided to run for reselection in 2024.
0:43.7	And part of the excitement around the president's announcement and let's face it, this wasn't
0:48.5	entirely unexpected, part of the excitement is Mr. Biden has already thrown a change
0:54.7	up, and this is my insight, my analysis of what may not be obvious to casual observers.
1:02.6	Biden's video message is the message I believe.
1:07.0	Biden announced he's running on video, and that's a big change from 2020, when he was doing
1:13.8	most of his talking and campaigning from his basement in Wilmington, Delaware.
1:19.1	Now it looks to me like he's made a solid commitment to being on video throughout his
1:24.8	re-election campaign, a lot to look for there in the coming weeks and months as President
1:31.0	Biden seeks a second term and a way to energize and to excite a base that for the most part
1:38.2	isn't excited or perhaps even excitable.
1:42.3	The 30% of Democrats who do approve of President Biden's mad-cap policies of the last two
1:48.4	and a half years are cheering.
1:51.3	We haven't, however, checked in with the other 70% who are opposed to the idea.
1:57.0	Biden's $7 trillion fiscal 2024 budget is a killer.
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