Podcast #16: Tomaso Poggio on the State of AI

After a long so-called winter, artificial intelligence has recently made amazing gains. Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, explains why this success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.

By Mo Lotman | February 14, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Cognition, Employment, Ethics, Podcasts, Society | Academia, AI, AI Winter, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Back Propagation, Center for Brains Minds & Machines, China, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, Deep Learning, Doctors, Economy, Facial Recognition, Google, Job Loss, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Meaning, Microsoft, MIT, Mobileye, National Science Foundation, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Purpose, self-driving cars, surveillance, Truck Drivers

2016, The Year in Review

A look back at the biggest technology-related stories of 2016.

By Mo Lotman | January 4, 2017 | Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Cognition, Culture, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Health, Human Rights, Journalism, Media, Policing, Politics, Privacy, Society, Transportation | AI, Amazon, Analog, Antibacterial Soap, Apple, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Vehicles, Black Lives Matter, Brain Training, Cancer, Comet Ping Pong, Cryogenics, Data Breach, DDOS, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC, Drone Delivery, Drones, Dyn, Encryption, Facebook Live, Fake News, FBI, FDA, Gawker, Genetic Engineering, Go, Google, Hacking, Hillary Clinton, Hulk Hogan, Internet of Things, iPhone, Lee Sedol, Live-Streaming, Lumosity, Mitocondrial Donation, music, Orwell, Peter Thiel, Philando Castile, Pokemon Go, Police Shootings, Politics, Records, Robots, Russia, San Bernardino, self-driving cars, Sex Tape, Spotify, surveillance, Terrorism, Tesla, Triclosan, Twitter, vinyl, Yahoo

Why America Needs Technoskepticism

With the presidential election turning on economic issues, Art Keller points out that neither party addressed the major cause of today’s inequality and job insecurity, nor has any plan to deal with it now. Hint: it isn’t trade.