Neil Lawrence is the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge. Neil has been working on machine learning models for over 20 years. Neil recently returned to academia after three years as Director of Machine Learning at Amazon. His main interest is the interaction of machine learning with the physical world.

In this conversation, Neil & I discuss the ideas that he shares in his latest book "The Atomic Human". Buy here: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Human-What-Makes-Unique/dp/1541705122/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0?pd_rd_w=DTWdc&content-id=amzn1.sym.8b590b55-908d-4829-9f90-4c8752768e8b%3Aamzn1.symc.40e6a10e-cbc4-4fa5-81e3-4435ff64d03b&pf_rd_p=8b590b55-908d-4829-9f90-4c8752768e8b&pf_rd_r=GTR62VTXY540GY7BHWZK&pd_rd_wg=9qErA&pd_rd_r=0f4320ea-6cee-4c57-aacc-6716a63eec50&pd_rd_i=1541705122

In this conversation, we discuss the following:

00:00 - Humans, Atomism & AI

01:58 - Public reactions to past technological breakthroughs

03:30 - Will AI really make people redundant?

06:56 - Sensationalising AI headlines

11:00 - Ray Kurzweil's claims

18:45 - Human intelligence vs AI intelligence

24:01 - AI's struggle with context

31:01 - The aspects of human intelligence that AI can't replicate

41:05 - Is Nick Bostrom right about AI?

47:18 - Will AI make students dumber?

58:22 - Connect with Neil

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