The Digital Insider with Sinan Aral

Gary Marcus: Is AI Sentient? The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence

MIT IDE Season 1 Episode 3

Sinan is joined by Gary Marcus, scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. Gary is Founder and CEO of Robust.AI, and was Founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016.

The pair discuss topics ranging from artificial General Intelligence, GTP-3, neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, and more. Gary's newest book, co-authored with Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI: Building Machines We Can Trust aims to shake up the field of artificial intelligence -- and that is exactly what happens during this fascinating and timely conversation.

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