{"id":83,"date":"2020-07-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/?p=83"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:57:18","slug":"artificial-intelligence-and-sentient-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/2020\/07\/artificial-intelligence-and-sentient-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence and Sentient bots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our guest is professor,\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/268022747_Parsing_the_Turing_test_Philosophical_and_methodological_issues_in_the_quest_for_the_thinking_computer_Foreword_by_Daniel_C_Dennett\">author<\/a>, researcher and psychologist\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/drrobertepstein.com\/index.php\/biography\">Dr. Robert Epstein<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Epstein is the co-founder of\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~arihuang\/academic\/research\/loebner.html\">The Loebner Prize\u00a0<\/a>.\u00a0In this episode we examine the cognitive and psychological aspects of our interaction with bots today.\u00a0<em>How<\/em>\u00a0do they fool us into thinking they are human and\u00a0<em>why<\/em>? Do we really understand human intelligence enough? Dr. Epstein argues that the\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer\">brain is not like a computer<\/a>\u00a0and as long as we think it is, our models for creating human-like computers are misguided. Will AI driven robots emerge that can feel pain, experience emotion and\/or other aspects of being a sentient being? If AI development proceeds on its current course, what are the potential consequences? Will Stephen Hawking&#8217;s misgivings prove to be prescient? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us for a lively discussion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3083\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-83-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/content.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/20200521-RobertEpstein.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/content.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/20200521-RobertEpstein.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/content.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/20200521-RobertEpstein.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/content.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/20200521-RobertEpstein.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=83-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/content.blubrry.com\/techsequences\/20200521-RobertEpstein.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20200521-RobertEpstein.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/techsequences\/id1509826111?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6BgXkvatS6UgsTsJVi7BJE?si=N7tlTeOkTlOrg3Ysco2nbw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribeonandroid.com\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_android\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Android\" rel=\"nofollow\">Android<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest is professor,\u00a0author, researcher and psychologist\u00a0Dr. Robert Epstein. Dr. Epstein is the co-founder of\u00a0The Loebner Prize\u00a0.\u00a0In this episode we examine the cognitive and psychological aspects of our interaction with bots today.\u00a0How\u00a0do they fool us into thinking they are human<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TS-PodcastHeaders-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}