TEH 166: AI. Is it alive?

In This Episode: AI. Is it alive?

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• Is AI Sentient?
  • 1:30 A character? A priest? An engineer?
  • 6:23 Looking at LaMDA
  • 8:30 Is there a wrong direction for Artificial Intelligence?
  • 9:30 What does sentient mean?
  • 10:14 Fiction is examining this
  • 12:20 ELIZA
  • 14:00 Who decides if a machine is sentient?
  • 17:00 Who decides what goes in?
  • 16:10 The ethical use of AI
  • 20:40 DALL-E and Corgies
  • 22:00 Games with AI
  • 23:30 Is there an off switch?
  • 30:50 The amount of data
  • 33:30 Smart cars?
  • 43:00 We can’t define it
• Articles
  • Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview –
  • The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
  • You’re Afraid of AI For All the Wrong Reasons
  • Google’s AI Isn’t Sentient, But It Is Biased and Terrible
  • ELIZA: a very basic Rogerian psychotherapist chatbot
  • Three Laws of Robotics
  • Microsoft’s framework for building AI systems responsibly

Ain’t it Cool

• 45:20 GR: Aurora (Book) Kim Stanley Robinson
• 48:40 LN: Building a Second Brain – Tiago Forte (ebook).
  • Started the last season of Vikings on Amazon Prime.

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 50:40 LN: If Someone Hacks My Gmail, Can They Hack My Other Accounts?
• 51:30 GR: How Time Machine Backups Work When using iCloud