‘We Have to Get It Right’: Gary Marcus On Untamed AI

It’s a confusing moment in AI. Depending on who you ask, we’re
either on the fast track to AI that’s smarter than most humans,
or the technology is about to hit a wall. Gary Marcus is in the
latter camp. He’s a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
who built his own successful AI start-up. But he’s also been
called AI’s loudest critic.


On Your Undivided Attention this week, Gary sits down with CHT
Executive Director Daniel Barcay to defend his skepticism of
generative AI and to discuss what we need to do as a society to
get the rollout of this technology right… which is the focus of
his new book, Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI
Works for Us.


The bottom line: No matter how quickly AI progresses, Gary argues
that our society is woefully unprepared for the risks that will
come from the AI we already have.


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RECOMMENDED MEDIA


Link to Gary’s book: Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure
That AI Works for Us


Further reading on the deepfake of the CEO of India's National
Stock Exchange


Further reading on the deepfake of of an explosion near the
Pentagon.


The study Gary cited on AI and false memories.


Footage from Gary and Sam Altman’s Senate testimony.


 


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Correction: Gary mistakenly listed the reliability of GPS systems
as 98%. The federal government’s standard for GPS reliability is
95%.