Your Hand in Mine (AI Yi Yi)
Summary
Host Mark Chrysler explores AI's history of failure, beginning with a story about an AI hallucinating a 1915 coroner scandal. He traces the origins of chatbots like Eliza and Perry, contrasting early optimism with Hubert Dreyfus’s 1964 critique that true AI is impossible due to the lack of human intuition. The episode examines how the first AI winter validated Dreyfus’s arguments, leading to the development of modern neural networks that bypass formal logic.
Topics discussed
Sponsor: Jack Archer Tech Pants
Sponsor: Progressive Insurance
The Coroner Episode and Historical Fabrications
Gemini's Hallucinations and Apologies
Introduction: The Mechanical Turk and AI Skepticism
Sponsors: Toyota and Pfizer
Host's Background in AI and Chatbots
The Lambda Whistleblower and Eliza
Weizenbaum's Eliza and the Turing Test
Perry, Colby, and the Origins of the Turing Test
Neuron Theory and Early Robot Turtles
Logic Theorist and Early AI Predictions
Sputnik, Cold War Funding, and Hubert Dreyfus
Sponsors: Jira and Toyota
The Dreyfus Affair and the First AI Winter
Symbolic AI and the Limits of Logic
Modern AI Triumphs and Dreyfus's Critique
Vigellin, Newcomb, and the Return of Skepticism
ANI vs AGI and the Problem of Truth
Embodiment, Dualism, and Why AI Lacks Understanding
Current AGI Predictions and the Risk of Another Winter
Conclusion and Historical Context
Sponsor: U.S. Bank
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