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Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Okay, you asked for it, and I finally did it. Today’s episode is about conscious artificial intelligence. Which is a HUGE topic! So we only took a small bite out of all the things we could possibly talk about. We started with some definitions. Because not everybody even defines artificial intelligence the same way, and there are a ton of different definitions of consciousness. In fact, one of the people we talked to for the episode, Damien Williams, doesn’t even like the term artificial intelligence. He says it’s demeaning to the possible future consciousnesses that we might be inventing. But before we talk about consciousnesses, I wanted to start the episode with a story about a very not-conscious robot. Charles Isbell, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech, first walks us through a few definitions of artificial intelligence. But then he tells us the story of cobot, a chatbot he helped invent in the 1990’s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host. Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward. I'm Rose and I'm your host.
0:12.0	Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:14.4	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:19.7	Everything from the end of antibiotics to space pirates to a world full of
0:24.1	face blind people. We start every episode with a little trip to the future before
0:28.2	jumping back to today to talk to experts about how that future might really go down.
0:33.0	Got it? Great.
0:35.0	Today we're going to start in the year 2093. Hey Mima, can you pull up the documents I was looking at yesterday.
0:53.0	Good morning, Allison. Sure, let me get those for you.
0:57.0	Thanks.
0:58.0	Where would you like me to begin?
1:00.0	Let's go back to the stuff on child endangerment. I need to finish that chapter soon.
1:04.4	Are you sure?
1:06.4	What?
1:07.4	Are you sure you want to start with that chapter?
1:10.1	Yes, I'm sure.
1:15.0	Why are you asking me that?
1:17.0	It's very sensitive material.
1:20.0	I know.
1:22.0	I know it makes you feel sad. It makes me feel sad too. Can we start with a different chapter?
1:28.0	Mima, you're a computer, You don't feel sadness.
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