Is AI fundamentally flawed? Can Elon Musk merge man with machines? Will there ever be self-driving cars? Join us as we revisit the top 12 most over-hyped stories in artificial intelligence from 2020 with Robert J. Marks, Jonathan Bartlett, and Eric Holloway.

Show Notes

• 00:01:10 | Introducing Jonathan Bartlett
• 00:01:37 | Introducing Dr. Eric Holloway
• 00:02:00 | #12: “The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed” (MIT Technology Review)
• 00:09:05 | #11: “Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence” (Nature)
• 00:12:41 | #10: “Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Live Up to Its Hype?” (Scientific American)
• 00:16:39 | #9: “What to make of Erica, the AI Superstar Robot?” (Mind Matters News) and “A.I. Robot Cast in Lead Role of $70M Sci-Fi Film” (The Hollywood Reporter)
• 00:22:10 | #8: “Is AI really better than physicians at diagnosis?” (Mind Matters News)
• 00:25:50 | #07: “Learning to Simulate Dynamic Environments with GameGAN” (GameGAN)
• 00:29:52 | #6: “GPT-3 Is “Mindblowing” If You Don’t Question It Too Closely” (Mind Matters News), “Built to Save Us from Evil AI, OpenAI Now Dupes Us” (Mind Matters News), “There’s a subreddit populated entirely by AI personifications of other subreddits” (The Verge), and “Bot posing as human fooled people on Reddit for an entire week” (The Independent)
• 00:36:47 | #5: “Lack of Sleep Could Be a Problem for AIs” (Scientific American)
• 00:39:04 | #4: “Elon Musk says Tesla’s full self-driving Autopilot is coming soon and it’s ‘clearly going to work’” (USA Today)
• 00:50:47 | #3: “Can AI Really Know When It Shouldn’t Be Trusted?” (Mind Matters News)
• 00:53:56 | #2: “Sam Altman’s leap of faith” (TechCrunch)
• 01:00:02 | #1: “Elon Musk wants to connect your BRAIN to a computer this year as ‘awesome’ Neuralink mind-chip prepares to launch” (The Sun)

Additional Resources

• Jonathan Bartlett at Discovery.org
• Eric Holloway at Discovery.org
• #12: “The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed” (MIT Technology Review)
• #11: “Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence” (Nature)
• Get George Gilder’s new book Gaming AI for FREE!
• Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs by George Gilder at Amazon
• #10: “Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Live Up to Its Hype?” (Scientific American)
• The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do by Erik Larson at Harvard University Press
• #9: “What to make of Erica, the AI Superstar Robot?” (Mind Matters News) and “A.I. Robot Cast in Lead Role of $70M Sci-Fi Film” (The Hollywood Reporter)
• #8: “Is AI really better than physicians at diagnosis?” (Mind Matters News)
• #7: “Learning to Simulate Dynamic Environments with GameGAN” (GameGAN)
• #6: “GPT-3 Is “Mindblowing” If You Don’t Question It Too Closely” (Mind Matters News), “Built to Save Us from Evil AI, OpenAI Now Dupes Us” (Mind Matters News), “There’s a subreddit populated entirely by AI personifications of other subreddits” (The Verge), and “Bot posing as human fooled people on Reddit for an entire week” (The Independent)
• #5: “Lack of Sleep Could Be a Problem for AIs” (Scientific American)
• “Elon Musk wants to connect your BRAIN to a computer this year as ‘awesome’ Neuralink mind-chip prepares to launch” (The Sun)