He holds two Guinness World Records for artificial intelligence. So why won't he put his own medical records anywhere near it?
In this episode, I'm joined by Dr Jonathan Schaeffer, the AI researcher whose checkers program Chinook beat the best humans alive and earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records twice over, for checkers and for poker.
Forty years into the field, he's now building something that runs against almost everything the big AI labs are selling: a private AI that lives on your own desktop and never sends your files anywhere.
We get into:
Key takeaway: Jonathan's case for treating AI as augmented intelligence, an apprentice you're in charge of rather than an oracle you defer to, and why that distinction gets harder to hold on to every year AI gets better at sounding certain.
Connect with Jonathan:
Website: https://kind.synsira.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-schaeffer-phd-frsc-aaai-fellow-3318015/
Book: "The Games that Computers (and Humans) Play" https://link.amazon/B01308A4V
Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
02:22 40 years watching AI evolve
04:06 The night ChatGPT changed everything
06:12 Star Trek's model for AI
08:38 The privacy trade you don't read
12:21 Kind vs Notebook LM
16:11 It's not just sensitive data
19:33 Fact checking his own book
25:10 Kind Shared, coming this fall
28:15 Why trust is AI's real problem
35:53 Three takeaways
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