EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)

Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant

AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way. 

Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next 50 years.

Think of this as a counterbalance to our earlier talk The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue

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SECTIONS

02:07 - The Five Worlds of AI - AI Fizzle, Futurama, AI-Dystopia, Singularia, Paperclipalypse; nice AI in pop culture - Max Headroom, Her (Samantha), Star Trek TNG (Data); philosophy points the way, making more trouble makes trouble, AI time scales, AI destables but also enables 14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM 19:32 - Flippy the robot burger maker, AI bartenders, AI pizza makers, it's all robots, Intelligent X - AI/robot customized beer making, personal customization in all things; AI pattern recognition for credit card fraud, crime detection, football coaching; emotion detection, job interviews, police interrogations 27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases  36:22 - AI Religions - Are we playing god, we're eternal because we're information, the noosphere, the divine as information, the Holy Spirit as an AI-like tool, spiritual machines 43:02 - Kurzweil's Singularity - Six stages: the Information Age, the Age of Computation, the Age of Spiritual Machines, the Age of Intelligent Machines, Computer-Human Symbiosis, the Age of Robots; cybernetics and augmentations are used today, possible timelines for the Singularity (2045?) 49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

The Moral Concept - Josh Bachynski's blog (email him at  joshbachynski@gmail.com) Adapting to the AI Age podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript) AI Personas & Ethics podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript) Use AI to Create Content Today on Digital Signage Done Right Five Worlds of AI At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Top 10 Unusual but Brilliant Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence Falcon LLM The Most Unusual Uses of Artificial Intelligence Flippy 2 by Miso Robotics FLIPPY The AI Burger Flipping Robot (video) Japan's robot bartenders: Last call for human service? Cyberdog - Prague's robot wine bar Pizzaiola - AI Based Robotic Pizza Maker The weirdest uses of AI How Carlsberg is using AI to help develop new beers Intelligent X - customized AI and robotic beer making EveryHuman - Create your scent with Algorithmic Perfumery The Amazing Ways How Mastercard Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Fraud And Reduce False Declines AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates' Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews Paragraphica - the lenless AI camera Freakonomics - the Hidden Side of Everything website Beauty.AI Visions of AI Utopia Beyond The Hype: Five Exciting AI Outcomes In The Next Five Years on Forbes Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return? on The Hill WTF is The Technological Singularity? on Hackernoon Technological singularity on Transhumanism Wiki Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045 Ray Kurzweil website Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Humanity? – A Utopian View

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