Currents 036: Melanie Mitchell on Why AI is Hard
June 27, 2021
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Melanie Mitchell & Jim talk about her recent paper, “Why AI is Harder Than We Think”. They cover AI fantasies, self-driving cars, prediction failures, AI winters & summers, Melanie’s four fallacies, common sense, theory of mind, defining understanding, embodied cognition, the role of emotions in intelligence, the future of AI, and more.
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