MIT’s Pulkit Agrawal - Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?

2023-11-01

MIT’s Pulkit Agrawal - Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe? Should AI be feared or welcomed? Humankind is still in a quandary on this issue. Best to speak to the experts then, in the form of Pulkit Agrawal, who is an Assistant Professor at MIT, building Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interaction systems for commercial application. His areas of study include robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning. (Many thanks to the Asia School of Business for their colla...

Should AI be feared or welcomed? Humankind is still in a quandary on this issue.
Best to speak to the experts then, in the form of Pulkit Agrawal, who is an Assistant Professor at MIT, building Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interaction systems for commercial application.
His areas of study include robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning.

(Many thanks to the Asia School of Business for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. The Asia School of Business is a partnership between MIT Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia).

Contents

00:01:08 - How Studying the Brain Led to AI
00:03:10 - AI Is Not New ..
00:05:16 - Is AI Development too Fast?
00:09:22 - AI and Motor Skills ie Moravec’s Paradox
00:12:55 - Robots Must be Legalled
00:15:24 - Should Robots Be Allowed to Impersonate Humans?
00:17:55 - The Cutting Edge of AI Is In ..
00:20:23 - Robot Sentience: True or False?
00:23:02 - Consciousness and Intelligence aka the Difference Between Obedience and Defiance
00:27:01 - ‘Progress’ at the Expense of Guardrails
00:30:47 - Can AI Replace ‘Education’?
00:34:05 - Imagine a World Without Schools and Universities ..
00:36:22 - Embedding Chips in the Brain
00:39:27 - Do Engineers Think about the Ramifications of Runaway Development?
00:45:13 - Why Elon Musk is Struggling with Self-Drive
00:48:04 - How Far Away are Self-Driving Cars?
00:49:44 - Apple’s VR Headsets .. Where’s the Future?
00:51:26 - If You Connect Your Mind Can Your Thoughts be Read?
00:53:10 - Can Motor Sensory Skills be Enhanced?
00:54:29 - How Should One Prepare for a World of AI?
00:56:47 - What Skills Must People Learn?

Follow Pulkit here:

MIT: https://people.csail.mit.edu/pulkitag/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
LinkedIn: /pulkit-agrawal-967a4218
Twitter/X: @pulkitology

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