Robots go Rogue: When Artificial-Intelligence Malfunctions

Are robots dangerous? Is Artificial Intelligence destined to take over the world? 

The short answers: yes, and eventually. The robot apocalypse is inevitable. But there's no need to stress, because at least for now, machines are complete idiots. Anything that we currently refer to as "AI"--from Siri to Alexa to advanced machine-learning algorithms--are definitely artificial, but they aren't remotely intelligent. Listen to this episode to find out just how intelligent AIs aren't.

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In this episode:

• The Sad State of Artificial Intelligence
• Alan Turing
• The Turing Test (the Imitation Game)
• Google Duplex
• CPUs VS GPUs
• Parallel Computing
• Narrow AI VS General AI
• Microsoft's "TAY" Chatbot
• Watson and Urban Dictionary
• Watson for Oncology
• Solid Gold Bomb
• Amazon "Rekognition" Facial Recognition
• This (blank) Does Not Exist
• NVIDIA's StyleGAN
• Amazon's Recruiting Tool

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~ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND SLEEP IS OVERRATED ~