Notes from the Electronic Cottage 4/20/23: Understanding AI 4

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

As we continue our series on Artificial Intelligence, we begin in this segment to look at some of the possible implications of the potential arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), or even Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), on us humans.

Link for Vernor Vinge’s 1993 presentation on “The Coming Technological Singularity” mentioned today.

About the host:
Jim Campbell has a longstanding interest in the intersection of digital technology, law, and public policy and how they affect our daily lives in our increasingly digital world. He has banged around non-commercial radio for decades and, in the little known facts department (that should probably stay that way), he was one of the readers voicing Richard Nixon’s words when NPR broadcast the entire transcript of the Watergate tapes. Like several other current WERU volunteers, he was at the station’s sign-on party on May 1, 1988 and has been a volunteer ever since doing an early stint as a Morning Maine host, and later producing WERU program series including Northern Lights, Conversations on Science and Society, Sound Portrait of the Artist, Selections from the Camden Conference, others that will probably come to him after this is is posted, and, of course, Notes from the Electronic Cottage.