Im stephen sackur. Wherever you live, however you live, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, is going to change your life in the next few years. Will it be for the better . Well, there are Tech Visionaries with very different views some benign, others, dystopian. But on one thing, the futurists can agree what will matter most to the outcome isnt The Machines, its the humans. My guest, neil lawrence, is a professor of Machine Learning who says we face a choice. Either we use alas a tool or we will become a tool for al. So, which is more likely . Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. Its a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as youve journeyed deep into the potentiality of Artificial Intelligence, youve also thought a great deal about Human Intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words . Yeah, i think, for me, what weve seen with a lot of the art
Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as you ve journeyed deep into the potentiality of artificial intelligence, you ve also thought a great deal about human intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words? yeah, i think, for me, what we ve seen with a lot of the artificial intelligence debate has been a sort of naturally narcissistic in tendency to think about our intelligence. And what i think it does is offers the opportunity to introspect about our intelligence, to stand in a different place, to look at a different type of information processing, that that s done by a computer, and use our understanding of that, which we built and created, so we understand it, to look back and think about what s special about us. Is intelligence the right word to use when it comes to discussing what machines can do in this
Alignment problem. It was released just last week. He offers theoretical contributions to the industry documenting in his bestselling book the most human human outer rhythms to live by. In his new book, question such as if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, whathappens when ai itself is the problem. Greenbergs last seen Computer Scientists tackling the obstacles of technological implication of an advanced new society that has become more like on technology. His work on Technology Leaders such as eli must once put the question in his 2000 book the most human human for his night table reading. In his new book the alignment problem is dependence on ai questions whether or not the system can help us or the systems simply are a replication of an inevitable human desire, how can we handle ontechnology. Here he argues that all these things make decisions for us, essentially we will be discussing a lot of the next hour and i want to ask your questions to watc
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