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The Sunday Times\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stuart Russell, professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world\u2019s leading experts on artificial intelligence (AI), to talk about working in the field for decades (4:00), AI\u2019s Sputnik moment (7:45), why these programmes aren\u2019t very good at learning (13:00), trying to inoculating ourselves against the idea that software is sentient (15:00), why super intelligence will require more breakthroughs (17:20), autonomous weapons (26:15), getting politicians to regulate AI in warfare (30:30), building systems to control intelligent machines (36:20), the self-driving car example (39:45), how he figured out how to beat AlphaGo (43:45), the paper clip example (49:50), and the first AI programme he wrote as a 13-year-old. (55:45).

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