Winning Slowly

Reflecting on the limits of AI, and the limits we should put on AI. Show Notes AI is coming and it’s going to take all of our jobs! …or, not, depending on who you ask and how optimistic they are or aren’t about the limits of AI as we understand it today. Regardless: how should we think about roboticizing all the jobs? Links A telling quote: OH (from an awesome Lyft driver): “Today has been great. I’ve been blessed by the algorithm.” Immediately had an eerie feeling that this could become an increasingly common way to describe a day. —@kcoleman Hyperion AI – truly independent AI in sci-fi AI in Healthcare Boston Robotics Dog The polar bear problem paper A popular-level discussion of teh generalization problem And the same applied to roadblocks for automated cars The DeepMind papers AirBnB’s machine learning-powered sketching tool Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics Previous episodes reference on the show: 6.10: The Future of Something Like Work 6.06: A Kind of Blindness 3.08: Juice of the Weird Edges of the E