True North 2018 - AI And Machine Learning Programming

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AI promises an exciting future. The upside is massive. It has the potential to help us solve the most obnoxious problems plaguing humanity. We could see giant leaps forward in medicine, manufacturing, transportation, biotech, agriculture, government, and on and on. No more crappy jobs. Maybe we’ll even get those flying cars we were promised. But we have concerns. It’s not killer robots that scare us, though that is terrifying. We’re afraid of AI nobody understands making life and death decisions for us. We’re afraid of economy-destroying, human value-displacing tech, controlled by a handful of people with all-too-human motives. We are afraid that, if there is a bug -- because there are always bugs -- we won’t be able patch it before it’s too late. Can we take a minute to talk this through? Welcome - John Kelleher Marylin Ma: The True Story of AI is Still Being Written Joseph Fung: Working Among the Machines Suzanne Gildert: Ultra-Human-Like Robots - Bringing Science Fiction to Life Ali Asaria: The Role of Human Workers in a Post Automation, Post AI World Marcel O'Gorman: AI Beyond Ethics Francois Gand: Unlocking Communication with AI Closing Remarks - John Kelleher