Despite the hype regarding the seemingly infinite possibilities surrounding AI technology, artificial intelligence still has a number of humbling hurtles to overcome. Justin Bui and Samuel Haug join Robert J. Marks to discuss the latest developments in artificial intelligence. 

Show Notes

• 00:00:56 | The Homunculus
• 00:04:09 | Introducing Justin Bui
• 00:06:54 | Fast AI
• 00:13:45 | Deepfake Technology
• 00:21:40 | Transfer Learning
• 00:24:13 | Rapture of the Nerds
• 00:31:27 | Little Faith in AGI
• 00:33:32 | Introducing Samuel Haug
• 00:33:57 | The Rest of the Story
• 00:35:36 | Could AI Win at Jeopardy?
• 00:38:33 | IBM’s Deep Blue
• 00:40:46 | Deep Convolutional Neural Network
• 00:43:25 | Self-Driving Cars
• 00:44:08 | Unexpected Contingencies
• 00:49:19 | Exponential Explosion of Contingencies
• 00:58:54 | Avoiding Contingency Explosions
• 00:59:14 | Domain Expertise
• 01:03:39 | Standardization of the AI
• 01:05:14 | Four Types of Knowns
• 01:10:16 | Human Contingencies
• 01:12:58 | Pareto Trade-Off
• 01:15:14 | Doman Expertise and Forecasting

Additional Resources

• Karl Shuker, Grow Your Own Homunculus
• Dr. Pretorius and some of his creations from The Bride of Frankenstein.
• Kaggle.com
• TensorFlow.org
• PyTorch.org
• Robert J. Marks II, This Year’s (2018’s) Top Ten AI Exaggerations, Hyperbole, and Failures: Part II, Mind Matters News
• Lauren Vespoli, Where Watson went wrong, MM&M, Sept 8, 2021
• Paul Scharre. Army of none: Autonomous weapons and the future of war. WW Norton & Company, 2018.
• Haug, Samuel, Robert J. Marks, and William A. Dembski. “Exponential Contingency Explosion: Implications for Artificial General Intelligence.” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2021).
• Why is it called Formula 409?
• The History of WD-40
• More on Pareto Efficiency