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Teaming up with machines we've designed and created has boosted our production and let us attempt things we never could have before.

But as artificial intelligence emerges, what will human

machine teaming come to look like?

Shortly after World War II, the newly formed US Air Force asked MIT to look into possible

methods of

air defense, and this led to the establishment of Lincoln Laboratories, one of the biggest

and most prestigious R&D labs around, with a few thousand researchers and staff tasked with

everything from traditional defense research to air traffic control, satellites, missile

systems, biotechnology, cyber cybersecurity, and now, artificial

intelligence too.

So when Rob Cedar asked me to give a presentation to Lincoln Labs on AI, my first thought

was, what a great chance to pick some brains on any number of topics.

And today's episode is the video form of the presentation I gave near the end of August,

and the two-hour Q&A session afterward has already spotted a few more episodes,

re-release over the course of the year, and I wanted to thank everybody who participated

at MIT Lincoln Labs for the opportunity, and for the wonderful brainstorm and episode ideas.

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