EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant
AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way.
Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next ...
EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant
AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way.
Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next 50 years.
Think of this as a counterbalance to our earlier talk The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
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SECTIONS
- 02:07 - The Five Worlds of AI - AI Fizzle, Futurama, AI-Dystopia, Singularia, Paperclipalypse; nice AI in pop culture - Max Headroom, Her (Samantha), Star Trek TNG (Data); philosophy points the way, making more trouble makes trouble, AI time scales, AI destables but also enables
- 14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM
- 19:32 - Flippy the robot burger maker, AI bartenders, AI pizza makers, it's all robots, Intelligent X - AI/robot customized beer making, personal customization in all things; AI pattern recognition for credit card fraud, crime detection, football coaching; emotion detection, job interviews, police interrogations
- 27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases
- 36:22 - AI Religions - Are we playing god, we're eternal because we're information, the noosphere, the divine as information, the Holy Spirit as an AI-like tool, spiritual machines
- 43:02 - Kurzweil's Singularity - Six stages: the Information Age, the Age of Computation, the Age of Spiritual Machines, the Age of Intelligent Machines, Computer-Human Symbiosis, the Age of Robots; cybernetics and augmentations are used today, possible timelines for the Singularity (2045?)
- 49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future
More Info:
- The Moral Concept - Josh Bachynski's blog (email him at joshbachynski@gmail.com)
- Adapting to the AI Age podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
- AI Personas & Ethics podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
- Use AI to Create Content Today on Digital Signage Done Right
- Five Worlds of AI
- At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman
- Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient
- The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Top 10 Unusual but Brilliant Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence
- Falcon LLM
- The Most Unusual Uses of Artificial Intelligence
- Flippy 2 by Miso Robotics
- FLIPPY The AI Burger Flipping Robot (video)
- Japan's robot bartenders: Last call for human service?
- Cyberdog - Prague's robot wine bar
- Pizzaiola - AI Based Robotic Pizza Maker
- The weirdest uses of AI
- How Carlsberg is using AI to help develop new beers
- Intelligent X - customized AI and robotic beer making
- EveryHuman - Create your scent with Algorithmic Perfumery
- The Amazing Ways How Mastercard Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Fraud And Reduce False Declines
- AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates' Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews
- Paragraphica - the lenless AI camera
- Freakonomics - the Hidden Side of Everything website
- Beauty.AI
- Visions of AI Utopia
- Beyond The Hype: Five Exciting AI Outcomes In The Next Five Years on Forbes
- Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
- Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return? on The Hill
- WTF is The Technological Singularity? on Hackernoon
- Technological singularity on Transhumanism Wiki
- Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
- Ray Kurzweil website
- Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Humanity? – A Utopian View
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