Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World

· Bolinda · Narrated by Toby Walsh and Dominic Gruenewald
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Artificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different to human intelligence. Yet often the goal of AI is to fake human intelligence. This deceit has been there from the very beginning. We’ve been trying to fake it since Alan Turing answered the question ‘Can machines think?’ by proposing that machines pretend to be humans. Now we are starting to build AI that truly deceives us. Powerful AIs such as ChatGPT can convince us they are intelligent and blur the distinction between what is real and what is simulated. In reality, they lack true understanding, sentience and common sense. But this doesn't mean they can't change the world. Can AI systems ever be creative? Can they be moral? What can we do to ensure they are not harmful?
Artificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different to human intelligence. Yet often the goal of AI is to fake human intelligence. This deceit has been there from the very beginning. We’ve been trying to fake it since Alan Turing answered the question ‘Can mac...

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Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence. He is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and chief scientist at its new AI institute, UNSW.ai. He is also the author of three previous books about AI, including Machines Behaving Badly.

Dominic Gruenewald is a Melbourne-based actor. He graduated from Actors Centre Australia in 2018 and quickly forged a prosperous career in Sydney's Shakespearean scene, playing Iago with 63 Globes (2019) and Orsino/Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Bar'd Work's sell-out season of The Shakesbeer Sessions: Twelfth Night (2019). Other highlights include appearing in Immersive Cinema's Dirty Dancing, and Underground Cinema's FBI. As a voice artist, Dominic has narrated titles such as Faking It by Toby Walsh, High Rise by Gabriel Bergmoser and The Anatomy of Gods by Megan White.

Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence. He is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and chief scientist at its new AI institute, UNSW.ai. He is also the author of three previous books about AI, including Machines Behav...

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