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Digital Summit Highlights: 'The Hopes of the Pioneers' and 'Artificial Intelligence'

Digital Summit Highlights: 'The Hopes of the Pioneers' and 'Artificial Intelligence'

FromIntelligence Squared


Digital Summit Highlights: 'The Hopes of the Pioneers' and 'Artificial Intelligence'

FromIntelligence Squared

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Jul 2, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

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This week's episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast features two sessions from our recent Digital Summit with Vanity Fair.

In the first session, 'This is For Everyone: The hopes of the pioneers', we explored the hopes and memories of the internet's early days – could the internet have developed in any other way than the one we know today? Our panel of experts featured former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger; entrepreneur and co-founder of lastminute.com Martha Lane Fox; journalist, blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow; and Chief Executive Officer of Telefónica UK (O2) Ronan Dunne. It was chaired by the UK editor of Vanity Fair Henry Porter.

In the second session, 'Artificial Intelligence: Are we engineering our own obsolescence?' we looked forward to how we will meet the daunting but thrilling challenge of advanced artificial intelligence. We were joined by leading AI expert Nicholas Bostrom; Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London Murray Shanahan; neuroscientist Daniel... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Jul 2, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

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