Jim Manzi on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Technological Innovation

Conversations with Bill Kristol

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🗓️ 11 August 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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A leading software entrepreneur and developer of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Jim Manzi shares his perspective on AI—what it is, what it can do today, and how it might develop in the coming years. Manzi also discusses how AI currently affects politics and society, and the implications of progress in AI for the future. Finally, Manzi compares today’s advances in computer science and in biology to past scientific breakthroughs in chemistry and physics.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal.
0:15.0	Welcome to Conversations.
0:18.0	I'm joined today by my friend Jim Manzi for the second time, I guess.
0:21.0	Right.
0:22.0	About three or four years ago we discussed trial and error,
0:24.7	your book, uncontrolled, the surprising success,
0:27.4	was that what was called?
0:28.2	Payoff.
0:28.8	Payoff from trial and error.
0:30.6	Excellent book, which be page reading today and and the conversation
0:35.1	we paid viewing today but you've sold the business on which which was
0:39.3	partly based on that inside I think it's fair to say right and? And yes. And you're in a new business with artificial intelligence.
0:45.6	And so today you're going to explain this incredibly fast moving
0:48.8	and somewhat, for someone like me,
0:51.7	difficult to grasp field of artificial intelligence, where we stand,
0:55.3	what's going on?
0:56.3	I'm sure it'll be excellent.
0:58.7	So you run an AI and artificial intelligence software studio, that's your current business right what is that
1:04.3	uh... basically
1:05.6	it's called foundry dot AI and uh...
1:09.2	a studio is in effect a factory to build artificial intelligence software companies.
1:14.0	So we ideate, build, grow, launch, and spin out AI software companies.
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