The last 12 months saw unprecedented international public discourse around all things AI. As part of our year-end wrap-up, this week Synced looks at what ten notable people had to say about artificial intelligence in 2018:
The last 12 months have seen unprecedented international public discourse around all things AI. As part of our year-end wrap-up, this week Synced looks at what 10 notable people had to say about artificial intelligence in 2018:
“AI is currently very, very stupid…”
– Google Vice President and Cloud AI Head Andrew Moore
Speaking at a November 14 Google Cloud event, Moore continued “…[AI] is really good at doing certain things which our brains can’t handle, but it’s not something we could press to do general-purpose reasoning involving things like analogies or creative thinking or jumping outside the box.”
“What’s really important is putting humanity at the center.”
– Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Director Fei-Fei Li
Speaking at a November 14 Google Cloud event, Moore continued “…[AI] is really good at doing certain things which our brains can’t handle, but it’s not something we could press to do general-purpose reasoning involving things like analogies or creative thinking or jumping outside the box.”
“Perhaps we should call this ‘Cargo Cult AI’ or ‘Potemkin AI’ or ‘Wizard-of-Oz AI’. In other words, it’s complete bullsh*t (pardon my French).”
– Facebook VP & Chief AI ScientistYann LeCun
LeCun tweeted in reference to Hanson Robotics’ android and ‘first-ever robot-citizen’ Sophia, adding “this is to AI as prestidigitation is to real magic.”
“Artificial intelligence should not look like humans”
– Baidu CEO Robin Li
Speaking at the Smart China Expo, Li said the goal of artificial intelligence is to create capable, smart machines; not androids.
“Stop.”
– HBO’s Westworld series Co-creator Jonathan Nolan
Nolan to scientists working toward artificial general intelligence. Westworld is a fictional amusement park where androids indulge human guests.
“Markets create intelligence.”
– Top AI Scientist and UC Berkeley Professor Michael I. Jordan
Jordan was speaking at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. “We’re thinking too much about creating artificial intelligence as an image of a human being, We should create artificial intelligence also in the model of market.”
“Should radiologists be worried about their jobs? Breaking news: We can now diagnose pneumonia from chest X-rays better than radiologists.”
– Co-founder of Coursera and Stanford University Professor Andrew Ng
Ng referring to Stanford ML’s successful ChexNet pneumonia detectionmodel. The boast triggered a backlash from the radiologist community.
“Data is the new oil, and China is the new Saudi Arabia”
– Author and Sinovation Ventures CEO Kai-Fu Lee
Lee made the remark at the Asia Society in New York.
“The day you start dealing with privacy issues, the day you open this data and unveil personal information, you open a Pandora’s Box”
– French President Emmanuel Macron
Macron told Wired he was authorizing the use of French healthcare data in AI systems
“Short-term AGI Is a serious possibility”
– OpenAI Co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
In his keynote speech at the AI Frontiers Conference, Sutskever said OpenAI’s research over six years left them optimistic regarding humans realizing artificial general intelligence in a relatively short timeframe.
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