Episode
Gary Marcus on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Brain
EconTalk · Dec 15, 2014 · 58 min
Gary Marcus of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). While Marcus is concerned about how advances in AI might hurt human flourishing, he argues that truly transformative smart machines are still a long way away and that to date, the exponential improvements in technology have been in hardware, not software. Marcus proposes…