AI and Human Future with Dan Huttenlocher, MIT
AI is transforming society. Not since the Age of Reason have we re-envisioned our approach to economics, order, security, and even knowledge itself. Now, the Age of AI is changing nearly everything…
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AI is transforming society. Not since the Age of Reason have we re-envisioned our approach to economics, order, security, and even knowledge itself. Now, the Age of AI is changing nearly everything…
What 280 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about our technological future
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We don't trust human beings to do things without being audited, and we're now getting AI to do those very same things without the same checks and balances.
— Daniel HuttenlocherDean of Cornell University's Blavatnik School of Engineering
Because these systems don't see the world the way we do, they can extrapolate things in novel and unexpected ways that we haven't identified. Systems like Deep Mind's AlphaGo are not beating humans at games through speed and brute force, they're discovering new ways to play which we never conceived.
— Daniel HuttenlocherDean of Cornell University's Blavatnik School of Engineering
While people have been worried about AI being embedded in humanoid robots from the science fiction world, our lives have been shaped and influenced by AI which makes tens of billions of decisions each day about what we see, and how we communicate.
— Daniel HuttenlocherDean of Cornell University's Blavatnik School of Engineering
There's a delicate balance between making sure our values are encoded in these technologies as they come out- and not constraining them so much that we lose the technological race to other nations who don't hold our values.
— Daniel HuttenlocherDean of Cornell University's Blavatnik School of Engineering
AI has been an area of technology for many decades, but the advances of the past five-years show us why this is one of the major technology events of the last several centuries. We haven't really had a technology like AI in the history of technological development – the closest analogy would be the movable type printing press, which came to the fore at the beginning of the enlightenment, some five hundred years ago.
— Daniel HuttenlocherDean of Cornell University's Blavatnik School of Engineering