Gary Marcus on AI's hallucination problem
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
AI expert Gary Marcus joins Andrew to cut through the noise and hype. Gary and Andrew talk about AI's difficulty with causal reasoning, what reasonable AI regulation looks like, stock market manipulation, 2024 election disinformation, romance scams, and driverless cars.
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| 0:00.0 | I think there should both be a cabinet level agency or office and then an agency underneath |
| 0:05.7 | that. |
| 0:06.7 | There's just too much going on right now to expect that all the existing agencies have |
| 0:11.4 | it covered. |
| 0:12.4 | They kind of wrote a memo kind of saying that in between the lines. |
| 0:16.5 | But the reality is that the existing laws don't anticipate certain things. |
| 0:20.7 | We have laws about protecting private individual speech. |
| 0:23.7 | But what do you do if somebody makes a billion pieces of harmful misinformation a day? |
| 0:28.4 | We don't have laws for that just to give you one example. |
| 0:30.8 | AI makes things possible in a wholesale way where it could only be possible retail before. |
| 0:37.0 | It's sort of similar to like a submachine gun versus a knife. |
| 0:39.8 | You have to think about them differently. |
| 0:58.4 | It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:07.1 | One of the foremost AI experts in the world recently testified the US Senate. |
| 1:12.1 | Also sold an AI company to Uber has a doctorate from MIT. |
| 1:16.6 | One of the champions for humanity when it comes to AI Gary Marcus. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome Gary. |
| 1:21.0 | Thanks for having me man. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.5 | So you've been on the AI train for a long time. |
| 1:27.7 | When did you start dipping your toes in? |
| 1:30.2 | I was kind of born on the AI train. |
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