The Future of AI: Pedro Domingos Reveals the Truth

AI. Progress Or Peril: Pedro Domingos, Where We Are Now And What’s Next
Larry Weeks and Pedro Domingos.
Pedro Domingos is a leading AI researcher and the author of the worldwide bestseller “The Master Algorithm.” He is a professor of computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. He won the Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Innovation Award and the international joint Conference on AI John McCarthy Award, two of the highest honors in data science and AI. Pedro helped start the fields of statistical relational AI, data stream mining, adversarial learning, machine learning for information integration, and influence maximization in social networks.
On this episode, we run the gamut to include…
Where are we with generative AIs
Pedro explains and demystifies LLMs (Large Language Models)
Progress and problems with generative AIs
Hallucination in AI - and illusion in humans
The homunculus fallacy
Risks, regulations, known-unknowns,
S curve in emerging technologies like AI
AI’s possible impact on Employment and the economy
Artificial General IItellience or AGI
Goals and end games, is AGI the goal?
Does he think LLMs AI’s like ChatGPT are conscious?
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[@dalerohling5989]

25:00 - Curt Doolittle's work at the Natural Law Institute (NLI) would be of interest to Professor Domingos to solve the AI challenge of operationalizing language(words) "continuous recursive disambiguation".

[@MrMikkyn]

I really liked Master Algorithm, it was reaaaally good.