Dead Cat with Gary Marcus

Eric Newcomer1h 5min

Tom Dotan

00:05

Welcome Hey everybody, welcome to this week's dead cat. This is Tom de Talan. Here reporter at insider, I am joined by Eric newcomer of new Cutler. And our special guest this week is Gary Marcus. Gary is a cognitive scientist. He's an adjunct, Gary is that the right adjective?

Speaker 1

00:29

Well, both emeritus and adjunct so well, full professor for many years and retired just before my 50th birthday. But now I'm also doing a little small adjunct thing with the Tandon School of engineers. So I'm both it's been an unusual combination.

Tom Dotan

00:43

Fantastic. For the best of both worlds, though not committed and emeritus honor,

Speaker 1

00:47

that's right, which allows me to live on the west coast where I want to be and yet still keep my hand and things a little bit. Excellent.

Tom Dotan

00:53

And Gary is also an entrepreneur in the AI space and kind of a thought leader and outspoken voice on a lot of topics within artificial intelligence. And this is a bit of a different episode for us this week, we've got Gary on to talk about the fascinating and bizarre Ballad of Blake Lemoyne. And Google's lambda tech.

Eric Newcomer

01:12

Right, we should say we're talking about this because Nitasha Tiku in the Washington Post, you know, wrote this piece, the Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life, and she, you know, profiles as Google engineer, like Lemoyne, who interacts with lambda, Google's artificially intelligent Chatbot. And that that story sort of kicks off this whole conversation. So I just wanted to put that at the center. So why don't

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