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Episode Summary

Artificial intelligence - what it is, when it's coming, and what it can do for us.

Episode Notes

Artificial intelligence - what it is, when it's coming, and what it can do for us.

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June 5, 2015

INTRO

Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! Episode 9 for Friday, June 5, 2015. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.

This week! We talk about artificial intelligence - what it is, when it's coming, and what it can do for us.

Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...

FEATURE

• Robots and AI are not the same thing
• Robots are a computer peripheral

LINKS

• DARPA Robot Challenge
• The Nitch Podcast
• Ex Machina
• Blade Runner
• Clone Wars
• Daemon by Daniel Suarez
• Ender's Game
• Don’t let AI take our jobs (or kill us)
• Bill Gates on dangers of artificial intelligence
• Elon Musk Donates $10M to Keep AI From Turning Evil
• Bill Gates joins Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking in saying artificial intelligence is scary
• Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat
• Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
• Triangulation 146: Jeff Hawkins
• Grey goo
• Three Laws of Robotics
• Google I/O 2015
• When Ideas Have Sex
• Amazon Echo

TITLES

• Any Of Those Stars
• Raws of Lobotics
• A Virus Called Humans
• A Bug With A Machine Gun
• Kissmyasskuhtee
• Robot Nanny
• Hot Robots

CLOSING

That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog.

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