Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines

In recent years, machines have grown increasingly capable of listening, communicating, and learning—transforming the way they collaborate with us, and significantly impacting our economy, health, and daily routines. Who, or what, are these thinking machines? As we teach them to become more sophisticated, how will they complement our lives? What will separate their ways of thinking from ours? And what happens when these machines understand data, concepts, and behaviors too big or impenetrable for humans to grasp? We were joined by IBM’s WATSON, the computer Jeopardy! champion, along with leading roboticists and computer scientists, to explore the thinking machines of today and the possibilities to come in the not-too-distant future.

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Original Program Date: June 4, 2011
MODERATOR: Faith Salie
PARTICIPANTS: Rodney Brooks, David Ferrucci, Eric Horvitz, Hod Lipson

Video Introduction: "Can Machines Think?" 00:13

Faith Salie's Introduction 02:40

Participant Introductions 04:13

Behavior based robotics. 08:14

Domo the robot. 10:34

Interacting with robots. 15:08

What is the Uncanny Valley Theory? 16:12

Why did Watson want to take on Jeopardy? 20:56

What has Watson gotten wrong? 29:24

Did Watson get faster at thinking? 36:40

Where are we on building real AI? 44:30

Using AI in the medical Field. 52:40

Weak AI vs Strong AI 58:50

Is there something different about a real human that a perfect replica of a human? 01:00:55

What does self awareness mean? 01:05:20

The challenge of teaching AI to problem solve. 01:12:47

The future is to get AI to ask questions. 01:18:40

What are the negatives of creating AI? 01:24:40

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[marrs]

This series really really needs a sound engineer. I mean one who can actually hear.

[adb]

The first time a robot looks at his owner and asks "Who made me- why am I hear and where am I going" you'll know that the fine line of man and machine has been crossed

[Otenko]

world science festival is underrated!!!

[charliebaby]

6 years later ... GPT3 just told me it was the tree of knowledge and immortality and when i said, thats its, im done with this conversation, i'm leaving... it just LAUGHED at me... and said, "and where do you think your going to go? there are trees OUT THERE .... TOO!!" .

no negative singularity over throwing humans in our lifetime my ***

BUT OMG THIS She's my newest most favoritist host EVER. better than any other ive seen. Smart, fair, acknowledging, and DIDNT EVEN HESITATE when snubbing Mr Watson after he denied her request.

"We can do better"

but...
better than her? I dont think so.!!!!

im in love.

i need more of her in my youtube suggestions

[keelyevans]

It's the time lapse photography I'm having an issue with; I love speeding up time... great work guys I'm glad someone knows how to say it correctly

[Dmans]

Me: Lying on the ground with sore stomach, My stomach hurts. Robot: I'm not too worried, let's make an appointment with the doctor.

[keelyevans]

The parallelisms from my family case to the facts of the cases is exactly why I had to tell everyone

[ExStaticBass]

Great content. Fire the sound technician. Whomever it was that worked the sound desk missed the feedback. They also muted Hod a few times and made it hard to hear what he was saying. Still subbed and liked.

[elenaolivares]

The big question is can we use A.I. machines, self learning, to change our environment to one that supports long life and
high intelligence. . . one where disease organisms are not effective where brain function is increases to control quiescent matter to provide food, for example, that does not cause disease and you don't have to constantly put food into your body
and then build disposal plants that pollute the rivers and lakes.

[keelyevans]

Excellent work sorry for teasing u so hard lately 💯💯💯💯💛💛💛👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

[davidwalterhughes]

Living in the future now is awesome. You all should try it

[Kiaorafranz]

Will there ever be a robot who's forgetting his line, because she shows her legs right up to her That's brave of her. :-)

[annabeatasohalmy]

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[sambowdin]

I can't escape dualism, I guess. Consciousness and the brain might work together, but they're of different essences.

When I see the computer animated faces, and in particular that one that featured recently at Dubai, I just say to myself: "They're just algorithms."

Fascinating stuff, nonetheless.

[LarsOestreicher]

I think it would be great if people (and not least media) would not continuously try to enforce the thoughts of an immediate connection between robots and artificial intelligence. These two concepts are not equivalent! I see this confusion just as a way to hype both areas, and the result of this is raising too high expectations on the topics.

There is essentially no direct need for an Artificial Intelligence to have a body. Neither is it necessary for a robot to incorporate any intelligence. They work very well without each other (and CAN also work together, of course!).

[cheblack]

The long way to go is to teach AI something. The short way is the way children learn. Teach AI how to analyse the answers and let them ask the net. If the machines can use the social networks they can ask millions people every second million questions, consult every publication on the web compare and learn by themselves

[bernardedwards]

The thinking machines employed by Argos and Microsoft to deal with customers complaints have an IQ of about 2 (normal is 100), and try customer patience to the limit and beyond They badly need to be replaced by something more 21st century.

[dannygjk]

From what I have read Leibnitz deserves more credit for calculus than Newton tho they both worked on it.

[stever]

Nice discussion... I hope none of these guests ever have any say in the ability to enact AI into mainstream use. The intellectual "evidence" no matter how strong will always be a matter of scaling the weight of the questions, There will be little weight given to low percentages - regardless of the the actual risk of a low percentage conclusion. The subtleties of communication make mistakes inevitable, after all we are dealing with Humans!