Rude Bot Rises
Okay, you asked for it, and I finally did it. Today\u2019s episode is about conscious artificial intelligence. Which is a HUGE topic! So we only took a small bite out of all the things we could possibly talk about.\n\xa0\n\xa0We started with some definitions. Because not everybody even defines artificial intelligence the same way, and there are a ton of different definitions of consciousness. In fact, one of the people we talked to for the episode, Damien Williams, doesn\u2019t even like the term artificial intelligence. He says it\u2019s demeaning to the possible future consciousnesses that we might be inventing.\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0But before we talk about consciousnesses, I wanted to start the episode with a story about a very not-conscious robot. Charles Isbell, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech, first walks us through a few definitions of artificial intelligence. But then he tells us the story of cobot, a chatbot he helped invent in the 1990\u2019s.\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices