Can We Tame AI Before It’s Too Late? With Dr. Gary Marcus
Dr. Gary Marcus
Scientist
Advisor to Policy Makers and Corporations, Best-Selling Author, Serial Entrepreneur
Episode Overview:
Renowned scientist, advisor to policy makers and corporations, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur, Dr. Gary Marcus, joins host, Cindi Howson, and stresses the need for cooperation on a global and individual level to ensure AI benefits society responsibly.
Key Moments:
Key Quotes:
Can We Tame AI Before It’s Too Late? With Dr. Gary MarcusThis matters. It matters as much as immigration policy or financial policy. The tech policy that we set right now is going to really affect the rest of our lives.
Can We Tame AI Before It’s Too Late? With Dr. Gary MarcusWe should want to have AI that can be like an oracle that can answer any question. There is value in trying to build such a technology. But, we don't actually have that technology. A lot of people are seduced into thinking that we do. But it may be decades away.
Can We Tame AI Before It’s Too Late? With Dr. Gary MarcusNobody can look you in the eye and say, ‘I understand how human intelligence works’. If they say that, they're lying to you. It's still an unexplored domain.
Mentions:
- Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure AI Works for All Of Us
- Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
- The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
- The EU AI Act
- AI Generates Covertly Racist Decisions About People Based On Their Dialect
Bio:
Gary Marcus is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience.
An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of six books, including, The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero, and most recently Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure AI Works for All of Us. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times.