Episode 72: Tweenie Turing Tests, AI, and Ex Machina (with Joshua Weisberg)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

It finally happened: David and Tamler welcome special guest Joshua Weisberg to the podcast to talk about Turing machines, Chinese Rooms, and AI. What does it mean for a machine to acquire intelligence? What is the proper test? How much processing power would it take? Do computers shed light on how human beings think? Why is John Searle trapped in a Chinese room, anyway? Plus, a spoiler-filled discussion (beginning at 58:20) of the recent movie Ex Machina. David tries to assert his feminist bonafides but Tamler takes Eva's side, proving once again that he is the real feminist. And we have a quick 5-minute discussion of Mr. Robot Episode 4 (beginning at 1:24) and respond to a couple of emails from the authors of the Inside Out article we discussed in our previous episode.

Links

Turing Test [wikipedia.org]
Chinese Room thought experiment [wikipedia.org]
Artificial Intelligence [wikipedia.org]
Weisberg, J. (2009). It stands to reason: Skynet and self-preservation. In Irwin, W., Brown, R., & Decker, K. S. (Eds.) Terminator and philosophy: I'll be back, therefore I am (Vol. 13). John Wiley & Sons.
Ex Machina [IMDB.com]

Special Guest: Josh Weisberg.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:06.1	having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics.
0:09.5	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.8	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	People think they believe what they choose to believe.
0:20.2	We don't.
0:21.5	We mostly believe what we need to believe.
0:24.0	The faded art has spoken.
0:29.0	A new attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:34.0	Who are you?
0:36.0	Who are you?
0:37.0	I'm very bad man.
0:38.0	I'm a very good man.
0:40.0	Good man.
0:41.0	Who are you?
0:43.0	I'm very bad man.
0:45.0	I'm a very good man.
0:47.0	Good man.
0:48.0	To play singing songs and with no more brains than you have.
0:54.0	Play the art tension.
0:56.0	Come on man.
0:58.0	To anybody can have a brain.
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