The Future is Now: Where are we going?

In a roundtable about the future of generative AI, moderator Daniela Rus sits down with MIT professors Joshua Tenenbaum, (Computational Cognitive Science, CSAIL, and Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines), Dina Katabi, (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CSAIL) and Max Tegmark (Physics).
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Needless to say, Max Tegmark is the rational voice in the wilderness.

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Why do we need machines to have human emotions anyway? What’s the point? Do we really want humanity to be isolated from each other and interact with machines even more so than they do today with smartphones?