Self-Aware Robots: How Close Are We? An Interview With Hod Lipson of Singularity University

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Self-awareness is not black and white. There are grey areas. For example, some animals are considered self-aware but on a much lower level than humans.
Tune in as Hod Lipson of Singularity University discusses how these lower levels of awareness are being realized in robotics today and what that means for the future of thinking robots.
Here’s a sampling of what you’ll discover:

* The key to self-awareness and how it relates to A.I. today
* How a blind spider-bot figured out it had four legs without a program to tell it so
* Why human-level consciousness in robots is just the beginning

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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 Boys To Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.7	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.6	Today I have another faculty member from Singularity University. Our goal on the
0:34.4	podcast is interview all the faculty members because every single one of
0:38.0	them is involved in all kinds of great initiatives. They're big thinkers and I always get a
0:44.2	tremendous value from interviewing them and I'm sure you as a listener will get a lot of
0:48.4	value from listening. My guest today is Hod Lipsen.
0:51.7	Hod, how you doing?
0:53.3	Good, pleasure to be here.
0:55.1	Yeah, thank you.
0:56.1	So if you would, can you let listeners,
0:58.6	you know, in addition to Singularity University,
1:01.5	what projects you're working on, but you know, all the major projects that you're
1:05.3	involved in right now.
1:06.3	So my day job is teaching and doing research at Columbia University in New York City and what we do there
1:15.6	most of the time is do research and try to sort of answer big questions that
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