James Barrat - Our Final Invention Revisited

Merry Christmas!  James Barrat is a documentary filmmaker, speaker, and author of the nonfiction book Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. We discuss the progress in financing and engineering AI - the issues of AI safety are still just as relevant as they were in 2013.James thinks we need policy reform - if anyone wants to make a difference, run for cabinet or alert those in cabinet of the issues around AI safety.
We also discuss if AI can help with the AI safety problem itself - in relation to whether AI can understand.

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