The Uncomfortable Truth About AI “Reasoning” | World Science Festival

Others in the field have said to me, I was blown away by what chat was able to do. >> I certainly wasn't blown away. It was always obvious that if [music] you had a richer database, you do better. As you increase the data, these models were going to get better at what they do. And

[music] what they do is they build an approximation of how people use words. It was also obvious that that was not enough to get to artificial general intelligence. >> Hey everyone, thanks for joining us. Today's conversation is in the area of artificial intelligence, the mind, the future of humanity in an everinccreasingly digital world. And I'm

so pleased that our guest today is Gary Marcus, who is a scientist, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. He's recognized as a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is professor emmeritus at NYU. I guess that would be in the departments of psychology and neuroscience, I believe. and he's also the founder of machine learning companies geometric intelligence that

was acquired by Uber as well as many other interesting AI ventures that we will discuss. So Gary so much for joining us you know before coming down here today I took a look and I think you've been in seven previous World Science Festival programs if I'm not mistaken over the years >> is that right? I some of them very

memorable like the the one that I did with Pat Matheni where he did the algorithmic composition with with his uh what they called solenoid robots. >> I don't even know if I've seen that one. Right. They're world science festival. >> That one's never been released, but we'll talk about that later. >> Oh jeez. So that's an interesting secret