114. Sam Bowman - Are we under-hyping AI?

Towards Data Science by The TDS team

Mar 2, 202200:47:48Technology

Google the phrase “AI over-hyped”, and you’ll find literally dozens of articles from the likes of Forbes , Wired , and Scientific American , all arguing that “AI isn’t really as impressive at it seems from the outside,”...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from Towards Data Science.

130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power by default

Oct 12, 2022 - 00:58:22

Progress in AI has been accelerating dramatically in recent years, and even months. It seems like every o...

129. Amber Teng - Building apps with a new generation of language models

Oct 5, 2022 - 00:51:21

It’s no secret that a new generation of powerful and highly scaled language models is taking the world by...

128. David Hirko - AI observability and data as a cybersecurity weakness

Sep 28, 2022 - 00:49:02

Imagine you’re a big hedge fund, and you want to go out and buy yourself some data. Data is really valuab...

127. Matthew Stewart - The emerging world of ML sensors

Sep 21, 2022 - 00:41:34

Today, we live in the era of AI scaling. It seems like everywhere you look people are pushing to make lar...

126. JR King - Does the brain run on deep learning?

Sep 14, 2022 - 00:55:43

Deep learning models — transformers in particular — are defining the cutting edge of AI today. They’re ba...

125. Ryan Fedasiuk - Can the U.S. and China collaborate on AI safety?

Sep 7, 2022 - 00:48:19

It’s no secret that the US and China are geopolitical rivals. And it’s also no secret that that rivalry e...

124. Alex Watson - Synthetic data could change everything

May 18, 2022 - 00:51:47

There’s a website called thispersondoesnotexist.com . When you visit it, you’re confronted by a high-reso...

123. Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves - AI on the blockchain (it actually might just make sense)

May 12, 2022 - 00:54:43

Two ML researchers with world-class pedigrees who decided to build a company that puts AI on the blockcha...