Is Hollywood right? Will the Terminator, Ultron, and HAL 9000 take over the world? These and other artificial intelligences (AIs) have sparked our imagination for centuries, but in the last fifty years our dreams have become reality. Join us for our two-part series on AI as we delve into its uses, implications, and governance with Dr. Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, an AI expert at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, we learn about Dr. LG’s work, what makes AI artificial and intelligent, the current and future uses of AI in society, and how these uses might enrich or endanger our livelihoods. In part two, we take a deep dive into the AI-related events happening right here in Maryland as well as consider what governments and groups in the United States and around the world are doing to ensure that AI is safe, effective, and fair.
If you have questions for Dr. LG, you can reach her at her email: mlopezg1@jhu.edu.
(Please note: This episode was recorded towards the beginning of 2022, so some of the information within could be outdated.)
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Links
IBM Watson AI beats Jeopardy! champions: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-watson-jeopardy-computer-shuts-down-humans
Google AlphaGo AI defeats Go grand champion: https://www.deepmind.com/research/highlighted-research/alphago
Dr. Alan Turing’s academic paper on whether machines can think: https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~howe/cs440/csroo/yr2015fa/more_assignments/turing.pdf
Academic papers on brain-machine interfaces (BMIs): https://www.nature.com/subjects/brain-machine-interface
National Science Foundation article about underrepresentation from minority groups in STEM fields: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20212/participation-of-demographic-groups-in-stem
Algorithmic Justice League: https://www.ajl.org/
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Credits
Music: ‘Lucky Massive Dangerous’ by Speck
Editing: Michael Dryzer
Intro & Outro: Michael Dryzer
Interviewer: Michael Dryzer
Interviewees: Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, PhD
With help from other members of the Sci’more Podcast team!