Thinking Machines | Artificial Intelligence | S3-E1
American Innovations
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🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. And it’s about to get much more powerful: machines that can reason, create, predict the future, even dream. AI is likely to be one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st-century.
This is the first in our four-episode series about the rise of artificial intelligence and humanity's quest to breathe intellectual life into computers. In this episode, we're going to meet the mavericks who first dreamed of a world where machines capable of being smarter than the people who created them.
And what better way for smart machines and their creators to face off in a battle of wits -- than by playing chess?
Pre-order Steven Johnson’s new book Farsighted now before it is released on September 4th.
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| 0:17.0 | It's June 1, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, a swanky resort beside the Pacific Ocean with lush green lawns and swaying palm trees. |
| 0:33.0 | Inside the luxurious main hotel building, |
| 0:36.0 | Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple, |
| 0:40.0 | is on stage at the Wall Street Journal's all things digital conference, |
| 0:44.3 | a select gathering of the tech industry's top CEOs and executives. |
| 0:48.4 | He's wearing his trademark faded levi's and a black polo neck shirt. |
| 0:53.0 | He's sitting in a Cherry Red executive chair |
| 0:55.5 | across from two famous tech journalists, |
| 0:57.8 | the Wall Street journals Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. |
| 1:01.2 | Swisher starts with a question to jobs. How do you feel about your relationship |
| 1:05.6 | with Google? Eric Schmidt, their CEO, was on your board. Well, they decided to |
| 1:10.7 | compete with us. We didn't go into the search business. |
| 1:14.0 | The conversation is friendly, |
| 1:15.4 | but the journalists are trying to get jobs |
| 1:17.1 | to reveal his plans and strategy at Apple, |
| 1:19.9 | particularly how he feels about Google |
| 1:21.8 | recently entering the smartphone market. |
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