Vicarious founder Scott Phoenix: "Humanity's last invention"

Published: April 20, 2018, 3 a.m.

b'The Sunday Times\\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Phoenix, founder of artificial intelligence startup Vicarious, to talk about the dawn of the robot age (4:30), the \\u201clast invention\\u201d (6:05), replicating the human brain (8:55), putting robots in the wild (10:00), how he got into AI (11:15), why he\\u2019s not 500 years too early (12:20), why Elon Musk is wrong (13:15), having Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos as investors (16:55), not wanting to be an investment banker (18:05), launching a Y combinator startup (19:00), AI\\u2019s evolution (20:10), solving Captcha\\u2019s (22:05), understanding how the brain works (25:40), why general AI could change everything (28:10), the danger of bias (29:50), in-home robots (33:45), and what society looks like when AI takes over (36:10).


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