Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2023-02-22
Books mentioned on An AI Chatbot Debate — With Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus
Blake Lemoine is the ex-Google engineer who concluded the company's LaMDA chatbot was sentient. Gary Marcus is an academic, author, and outspoken AI critic.
Gary Marcus discussed Rebooting AI by Gary Marcus and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Rebooting AI
Discussed“but it it's astounding that it works well enough that everybody can now for example vividly see what semantic search would be like like in 2019 in rebooting AI Ernie Davis and I wrote about semantic search”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Algebraic Mind
“so I actually wrote about this 20 some years ago my book the algebraic mind and I gave an example there which is I said suppose it was a different system”
Passing Rebooting AI
“we're back here on big technology podcast with Blake Lemoine the ex Google engineer who's concluded that the company's Lambda chatbot sentient and Gary Marcus who's an academic author and he wrote rebooting AI”
Plugged Kluge
“I wrote a whole book called Cluj that was all about human cognitive flaws it's not that I'm unaware of them or not nor that I'm unconcerned about them but I still would have trouble calling the kind of large language model based systems smart”