David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

David Ferrucci led the team that built Watson, the IBM
question-answering system that beat the top humans in the world at
the game of Jeopardy. He is also the Founder, CEO, and Chief
Scientist of Elemental Cognition, a company working engineer AI
systems that understand the world the way people do. This
conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence
podcast. If you would like to get more information about this
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Patreon. Here's the outline with timestamps for this episode (on
some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point
in the episode): 00:00 - Introduction 01:06 - Biological vs
computer systems 08:03 - What is intelligence? 31:49 - Knowledge
frameworks 52:02 - IBM Watson winning Jeopardy 1:24:21 - Watson vs
human difference in approach 1:27:52 - Q&A vs dialogue 1:35:22
- Humor 1:41:33 - Good test of intelligence 1:46:36 - AlphaZero,
AlphaStar accomplishments 1:51:29 - Explainability, induction,
deduction in medical diagnosis 1:59:34 - Grand challenges 2:04:03 -
Consciousness 2:08:26 - Timeline for AGI 2:13:55 - Embodied AI
2:17:07 - Love and companionship 2:18:06 - Concerns about AI
2:21:56 - Discussion with AGI