Daily: FRANKENSTEIN IN DIGITAL – The coming AI revolution

<p>Are we ready to live alongside artificial minds? And why do we still harbour a Terminator-style fear of vengeful machines? Oxford University Professor of Computer Science <strong>Michael Wooldridge</strong>, author of <a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Michael-Wooldridge/The-Road-to-Conscious-Machines--The-Story-of-AI/24837579" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Road to Conscious Machines</em></a>, says we are on the brink of a great transformation in artificial intelligence. He talks to Alex Andreou about deepmind superhuman gamer bots, debunking our fear of Frankenstein’s creation, and why automation means more than robot butlers.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“We are with AI where nuclear physicists were in the early 1900s… There is so much unexplored territory.”</em></li><li><em>“We’re nothing special in the universe. We’re just a bunch of atoms bumping up against each other.” &nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“I don’t lose sleep over the Skynet scenario. We don’t need AI to make mistakes with nuclear weapons.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“The Frankenstein story embodies our deep-rooted fear of creating something, and then losing control of it.”&nbsp;</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>