Episode 5 - Dan Turchin and the Intersection of AI and Humanity

In this episode, Laura and Shane talk with Dan Turchin, the founder and CEO of Astound.AI - https://astound.ai/

We touch on a variety of areas in this discussion including:

• Which jobs are best suited for AI and what jobs will continue to require humans to perform them?
  
• Why AI is fundamentally about making the lives of humans better?
  
• What is coming in the next 2 years related to how we use and interact with AI?
  
• How AI is currently impacting how people work today?
  
• How do we redefine human value beyond our ability to trade our time for a wage.
  
• The difference between Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Narrow Artificial Intelligence and why the current usages we see today is more focused on Narrow AI? - https://medium.com/@tjajal/distinguishing-between-narrow-ai-general-ai-and-super-ai-a4bc44172e22
  
• Where does empathy and curiosity come into play between humans and AI?
  
• Is it too late to re-skill the workforce to support the future? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2019/05/04/how-to-reskill-your-workforce-for-ai-artificial-intelligence/#78531eae3eb9
  
• Dan introduces us to the concept of “Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous” as the litmus test for where there is an opportunity for machines to do a job that a human is currently performing. - https://www.robotics.org/blog-article.cfm/How-Robots-Are-Taking-on-the-Dirty-Dangerous-and-Dull-Jobs/209
  
• Whether we should fear that AI will take jobs away from people.
  
• Whether AI will eventually decide that humans are imperfect and shouldn’t exist and why some technologists fear this outcome. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3fv8gl6NE
  
• How low cost compute power has democratized access to AI and Machine Learning.
  
• Topics coming out of the recent British Standards Institute conference on AI. - https://shop.bsigroup.com/Navigate-by/Conferences/Conferences/Now-Booking/The_Digital_World_Artificial_Intelligence/BSI_Event_TheDigital_WorldArtificialIntelligence/
  

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