David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

About this episode

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Ferrucci led the team that built Watson, the IBM question-answering system that beat the top humans in the world at the game of Jeopardy. He is also the Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Elemental Cognition, a company working engineer AI systems that understand the world the way people do. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.</span>&#160;If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes&#160;or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>. Here&#8217;s the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode):</p> <p>00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 01:06 &#8211; Biological vs computer systems<br /> 08:03 &#8211; What is intelligence?<br /> 31:49 &#8211; Knowledge frameworks<br /> 52:02 &#8211; IBM Watson winning Jeopardy<br /> 1:24:21 &#8211; Watson vs human difference in approach<br /> 1:27:52 &#8211; Q&#38;A vs dialogue<br /> 1:35:22 &#8211; Humor<br /> 1:41:33 &#8211; Good test of intelligence<br /> 1:46:36 &#8211; AlphaZero, AlphaStar accomplishments<br /> 1:51:29 &#8211; Explainability, induction, deduction in medical diagnosis<br /> 1:59:34 &#8211; Grand challenges<br /> 2:04:03 &#8211; Consciousness<br /> 2:08:26 &#8211; Timeline for AGI<br /> 2:13:55 &#8211; Embodied AI<br /> 2:17:07 &#8211; Love and companionship<br /> 2:18:06 &#8211; Concerns about AI<br /> 2:21:56 &#8211; Discussion with AGI</p>