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Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)

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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

  1. 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
  2. 14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM
  3. 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
  4. 27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases 
  5. 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
  6. 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?)
  7. 49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future

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