Episode 5 - Dan Turchin and the Intersection of AI and Humanity
Dan Turchin and the Intersection of AI and Humanity
Episode 5
In this episode, Laura and Shane talk with Dan Turchin, the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Astound.AI - https://astound.ai/
We touch on a variety of areas in this discussion including:
Which jobs are best suited for AI and what jobs will continue to require humans to perform them?
Why AI is fundamentally about making the lives of humans better?
What is coming in the next 2 years related to how we use and interact with AI?
How AI is currently impacting how people work today?
How do we redefine human value beyond our ability to trade our time for a wage.
The difference between Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Narrow Artificial Intelligence and why the current usages we see today is more focused on Narrow AI? - https://medium.com/@tjajal/distinguishing-between-narrow-ai-general-ai-and-super-ai-a4bc44172e22
Where does empathy and curiosity come into play between humans and AI?
Is it too late to re-skill the workforce to support the future? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2019/05/04/how-to-reskill-your-workforce-for-ai-artificial-intelligence/#78531eae3eb9
Dan introduces us to the concept of “Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous” as the litmus test for where there is an opportunity for machines to do a job that a human is currently performing. - https://www.robotics.org/blog-article.cfm/How-Robots-Are-Taking-on-the-Dirty-Dangerous-and-Dull-Jobs/209
Whether we should fear that AI will take jobs away from people.
Whether AI will eventually decide that humans are imperfect and shouldn’t exist and why some technologists fear this outcome. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3fv8gl6NE
How low cost compute power has democratized access to AI and Machine Learning.
Can AI help us drive out Institutional Biases?
Topics coming out of the recent British Standards Institute conference on AI. - https://shop.bsigroup.com/Navigate-by/Conferences/Conferences/Now-Booking/The_Digital_World_Artificial_Intelligence/BSI_Event_TheDigital_WorldArtificialIntelligence/