May 15, 2020

Episode 012: Ambiguity

29 minutes

In this episode, Lloyd discusses why it is that machines struggle to interpret ambiguous input, and what the implications are for the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) . The conversation focuses on a blog post by ICED(AI) advisory, Michael Stiefel, which can be found at bit.ly/ArtAndSoftware_Ambiguity.

Episode Guide:

1:42 - Machine Intelligence & Art

6:15 - Real World Recursion, Simulations and Simulacra

9:49 - Moravec's Paradox, Revisited

13:07 - "The city council refused the demonstrators a permit because they [feared/advocated] violence."

16:10 - Anthropic Bias and Practicality

19:48 - Existential Risk

21:33 - "Code Is Law"

25:25 - The Threat of Ambiguity

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