Episode 981 • • 1:45:03 - 1:52:02
981: Talking Tubes
Web Summit 2017 and Artificial Intelligence Skepticism
The 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon featured warnings from Stephen Hawking about the existential risks of artificial intelligence. While tech leaders discuss "deep learning" and autonomous weapons, skeptics argue that current AI technology is largely a marketing scam with no evidence of real intelligence. The cyclical nature of AI hype is compared to previous failed "thinking machine" movements in the 1950s and 1980s.
