#10 The story of Artificial Intelligence with Bennie Mols

Last Week on Earth with GARI

Our guests is Bennie Mols, renowned science & technology journalist with a background in physics & philosophy on his fascination with AI & robotics and his dream that one day the co-author of a paper will be an AI.

1. The history of artificial intelligence, from it being just science to being applicable
2. What is fascinating about AI?
3. What can AI NOT do?
4. How would you explain the pace, the rapidity of how the narrative around AI changed from curiosity to fear?
5. How to achieve a balance in journalism about AI?
6. Difficulties we must overcome in self-driving cars
7. Research & investment in AI in the US, China and Europe - how do we differ?
8. CERN for AI
9. Google, Twitter and Facebook - too much power?
10. How to combine the best of humans with the best of machines

What is fascinating about AI?
Bennie: it combines three passions: science technology & philosophy - is it possible to build an intelligent machine? scientifically you answer this question as yes, but then technologically is how are we going to build this kind of machine? and from the philosophical point of view, what does it mean to be intelligent? If a machine is intelligent is it also automatically conscious? How are we able to measure whether a machine has consciousness or not?

In 2010 there was a positive narrative around AI, fast forward 5-10 years we see ethical issues pop up. Now the narrative is completely negative, the bias in data sets, jobs loss, black box decision-making... Designing AI systems requires you to think about values that are important to humans.
We don't have to be afraid of data, we have to think before we design a system. What are the values we want the system to stick to?

If you were talking to a low to mid-level employee - what would you tell them int he sense of “what's in it for you”?

We need to think about how to combine the best of humans with the best of machines - hybrid intelligence. We need some reeducation of people.

New enlightenment: Digital humanism - with three components:

1. humans should become more empowered and more digitally literate - giving people equal opportunity to use technologies
2. need to make technology more human
3. hybrid intelligence - the future belongs to people who best work together with AI

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