Peering Into A.I.’s Black Box + Who’s The Real Techno-Optimist? + Reading Ancient Scrolls With A.I.
A.I. models are black boxes. You input a prompt and the model outputs nearly anything: a sonnet, an image or a legal brief riddled with lies. Today, a look at three ways that researchers are unlocking that black box in hopes of bringing transparency to A.I. Then, Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto has left us asking, Is he OK?! Plus: decoding a 2,000-year-old ancient scroll with the help of A.I.
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Show Notes
A.I. models are black boxes. You input a prompt and the model outputs nearly anything: a sonnet, an image or a legal brief riddled with lies. Today, a look at three ways that researchers are unlocking that black box in hopes of bringing transparency to A.I.
Then, Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto has left us asking, Is he OK?!
Plus: decoding a 2,000-year-old ancient scroll with the help of A.I.
Today’s Guest:
- Brent Seales is a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky.
Additional Information:
- Kevin Roose on learning more about how A.I. works.
- Marc Andreessen’s 5,000-word manifesto
- Using A.I. to decode a scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
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