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Clockwise from left: speech recognition pioneer Janet Baker; Rajiv Maheswaran, CEO, Second Spectrum; Yves Behar, Founder, fuseproject; Chief Creative Officer, Jawbone; COO, August; Ali Kashani, Founder and CEO, Neurio; Fei-Fei Li, Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Vision Lab and Rodney Brooks, Founder and CTO, Rethink Robotics Bryan Derballa
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Participants greet each other. Ali Kashani: “I grew up in a country where information was very restricted and controlled… And a few videos on YouTube changed the way I think about the world completely.” Bryan Derballa
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Fei-Fei Li: “On the path to create better and better AI, this is actually an opportunity for us to understand humanity and ourselves better.” Rodney Brooks, legendary roboticist, is not worried about AI. “Show me an AI program that can understand an arbitrary ten-ine C program and rewrite it to be better.” Bryan Derballa
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Fei-Fei Li: “We really have a crisis of people working in AI and people working in STEM.” Bryan Derballa
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Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, is worried about donuts and the temptation industry. Bryan Derballa
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Yves Behar: “The Hollywood view of AI is great for selling movies, but unfortunately it's a lot less exciting for us.” Ali Kashani Bryan Derballa
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Janet Baker: “I think we have crossed a line where we’re not going to be able to disappear so easily when we want to.” Rajiv Maheswaran: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…We don’t put limits on magicians.” Bryan Derballa
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As we all know, there is much to be excited about in terms of the human possibilities of technology. But there’s also much concern about the unintended consequences to humanity of future innovations– in just the past few months, no less than Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking have all expressed their own fears of “super intelligence” aka AI.
And of course there are worries about many issues beyond AI: surveillance tech, hacking of corporations and governments, pandemics, climate change, the increasing wealth gap, and robots – even the ones that aren’t super intelligent – stealing our jobs.
It seemed like a good time to get a reality check on some of these issues, so we convened a group of great minds at TED to ignite our #maketechhuman conversation before the video cameras. Check out our behind-the-scenes photos and stay tuned for the full interviews.
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