Chatting with Toby Walsh

Episode 2 of the Surfing the datawave podcast, hosted by UNSW AI Institute, titled "Chatting with Toby Walsh" was published on November 20, 2023 and runs 43 minutes.

November 20, 2023 ·43m · Surfing the datawave

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In this episode, I talk with Toby Walsh about his new book - Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World. Toby is a colleague and friend, so this was good fun. We talked about everything from Toby's hopes for AI, his optimism with regard to AI's environmental overheads, the challenges of labour extractivism, the fate of the metaverse, AI's relationships with consciousness, free will, and morality, and more. Thanks Toby. https://www.unsw.edu.au/unsw-ai https://en.wikipedi...

Episode Description

In this episode, I talk with Toby Walsh about his new book - Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World. Toby is a colleague and friend, so this was good fun. We talked about everything from Toby's hopes for AI, his optimism with regard to AI's environmental overheads, the challenges of labour extractivism, the fate of the metaverse, AI's relationships with consciousness, free will, and morality, and more. Thanks Toby.

https://www.unsw.edu.au/unsw-ai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Walsh

https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~tw/

https://au.linkedin.com/in/airockstar

https://twitter.com/TobyWalsh

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