THE FUTURE IS HERE

Michael Wooldridge on the History and Future of AI

AI research endured years of failure and frustration before new techniques in deep learning unleashed the swift, astonishing progress of the last decade. Michael’s recent book A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence explores what we can learn from this history, and examines where we are now and where the field is going.

We discuss:

* Why the Cyc project’s aim to encode ‘all human knowledge’ (!!) into a functioning AI got stuck, despite years of intense effort.

** What OpenAI’s GPT-3 language-generating AI system really knows about making an omelette.

***Why the next generation of AI systems may have to combine symbolic and non-symbolic approaches.

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