Cade Metz - Dessa Speakers Series

Cade Metz is a technology correspondent with The New York Times, covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine. He's the author of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Why did you write this book?
4:33 Are we in historic times right now? Do you think Geoff Hinton will be the next Thomas Edison?
7:14 Do you have any interesting Jürgen Schmidhuber stories?
11:15 What obligation do technologists have to AI hype?
13:25 How can Canada sustain the advances it's made in AI?
18:30 What's the next big thing?
21:20 Is the US government thinking about AGI? Are there policy makers who understand "Intelligence Explosion"?
23:25 Should the US collaborate with China to avoid an AI Arms Race?
27:00 How did you approach writing a book about a very technical topic for a general audience?
29:40 Do AI companies need to sell to "Big Tech" to compete? Is that a good thing?
33:20 The importance of the right terminology and right metaphor in AI
37:31 How important was faith in the development of deep learning?
42:00 Why was Hinton and deep learning ignored by so many people for so long?
45:35 How do we strike the balance between AI optimism and AI anxiety?
49:35 Finding Alignment between technology and applications
51:10 Importance of having different perspectives in moving forward innovation
55:44 Ideas linger, even if they're wrong
58:30 Noam Chomsky's criticism of machine learning

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