This is our 3rd episode in a series where we’re speculating about the future of several different kinds or methods for narrow AI.

Future Topics:

See also:

We highly recommend you read After On by Rob Reid before listening to this episode where we interview Rob Reid, author or After On! We tried to keep the spoilers to a minimum so if you’d like to listen a bit and then decide to read the book, that should work too.

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Rob’s links:

This is our 2nd episode thinking about possible paths to superintelligence focusing on one kind of narrow AI each show. This episode is about embodiment and robots. It’s possible we never really agreed about what we were talking about and need to come back to robots.

Future ideas for this series include:

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Kenny Chen joins Ted to talk about the IBM Watson AI XPrize, the wildcard process for teams wishing to join the competition, the pitch day aspect of the wildcard process and the upcoming Thrival Festival (Sept 27-30). In first two days are the Innovation part of the festival. This year’s theme is “Intelligence: Humans X Tech” where Ted will be moderating a panel entitled “Skynet or Shangri-La? The Role of AI Ethics & Policy in Shaping Our Future.” Hope to see you there!

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If we speculate about how we might get to AGI from what we see from narrow AI today, do we learn anything? On this show we mentioned the following:

and then went deeper on these:

Conclusion: Tools are a dead end with respect to creating AGI. Future episodes will take on robots, digital assistants, etc.

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Seems no one reads these notes, so my laziness compels me to not write them. Let us know if I’m wrong about that.

edit: Eric wrote in (thanks Eric!) with the link for his stories. http://wiki.solseed.org/Stories#Eric

Does anyone read this? If so, drop a line to [email protected] to let us know. Otherwise, all I can say is we talked about the Nexus Trilogy of novels as a way to further our thinking about the wizard hat idea Tim Urban wrote about in his article about Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

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Also, we’re likely to talk about these novels at some point, in case you’d like to read before we do: Nexus Trilogy

No time for show notes this week. If you’d like to create them for us, please email them to [email protected] and I’ll drop them in here.

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Tim Urban’s article at Wait But Why: Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

Bike Rack: Engineering trumps science.

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