Intelligent Machines Are Changing Everything

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How do we create artificial intelligence that isn't bigoted? Can we teach machines to work exactly like our brains work? “You don’t program a machine to be smart,” says our guest this week, “you program the machine to get smarter using data.”We talk to James Scott, statistician, data scientist, and co-author (with Nick Polson) of the new book AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Monday, June 18th, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.
0:06.2	I am in Dreyvis Gontes.
0:07.4	Kishore is still on break.
0:09.3	Each week, we bring you a new in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and
0:13.7	society collide.
0:15.4	We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.
0:20.0	You can find us online at inquiring.
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0:28.3	by supporting us at the $5 or more levels at patreon.com slash inquiring minds. And you can
0:35.0	subscribe to the show on iTunes or any other podcasting app.
0:42.5	Last week, we talked to Peter Rubin, a senior editor at Wired who covers virtual reality
0:48.0	about the ways in which virtual reality might change how we view ourselves and our connections
0:53.5	with others.
0:55.0	This week, we're tackling artificial intelligence in a broad sense, but from the data
0:59.2	science perspective. So Silicon Valley Titans like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk disagree as to
1:06.6	how big a threat artificial intelligence is to humanity. Musk's stance is that this is really something that we need to worry very deeply about
1:15.5	because artificial intelligence will eventually make humans obsolete.
1:20.1	Zuckerberg disagrees.
1:21.3	And of course, Facebook has a hand in developing the kind of artificial intelligence
1:25.5	that Elon Musk is really quite afraid of.
1:28.3	But where are we in terms of developing artificial intelligence and what can data science tell us
1:33.5	about how we are currently using it in our lives? Is AI already changing the way that we think
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