Nell Watson of Singularity University – Robots With Ethics?
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
(Amongst other projects)
AI systems capable of understanding and developing ethics have many applications, from stock trading, to care for the elderly, and more.
A robot with the ability to solve ethical dilemmas may help answer the tough question: “is it going to solve problems or create more instead?”
We also discuss decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and the various advantages to the economy and to people working in such organizations DAOs may bring.
We also briefly talk about new techniques used for security like zero knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:08.0 | Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | Almost here means these technologies are now here starting to be used. |
| 0:18.4 | We're just around the corner for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.2 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcasts, almost here around the corner technology. |
| 0:33.0 | So I have my second guest today from Singularity University, Eleanor Watson, |
| 0:38.0 | and you go by Nell, is that right? |
| 0:40.0 | Not normally, yeah. |
| 0:42.0 | That's correct. |
| 0:43.0 | Okay. |
| 0:44.0 | And as for introductions, you know, I mentioned this offline. |
| 0:49.0 | The people I've spoken to from Singing married to university have so many credentials and accomplishments I found it's better to let |
| 0:55.5 | them do their own intro so if you wouldn't mind you know for the audience can you give a brief |
| 1:00.5 | overview of your accomplishments and the work that you do? |
| 1:04.0 | Sure. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I've had a bit of an unusual career. |
| 1:10.0 | I went straight into industry at an early age, gained a lot of experience very rapidly. |
| 1:18.0 | I ended up teaching post-grad computer science at age of 24. co-founded a graffiti arts company, which is now based in Hong Kong, |
| 1:27.0 | then went back into technology and I set up a computer vision company which can translate two pictures of a person |
| 1:40.6 | into a 3D model of that person with all of the measurements for a fitting of clothing |
| 1:46.7 | or for tracking size and shape for a gym and that sort of thing. |
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