In this episode, Byron talks about self-flying planes and getting accustomed to trusting AI in our everyday lives.
Transcript
The idea that we're going to have self driving cars is one we're kind of getting used to. You can imagine a day when a car pulls up and we get in it and it takes us where we want to go, we get out and it drives off. It poses a question though about what other things can we remove humans from entirely?
How would you feel about flying on a self-flying airplane with no pilot? In a sense, flying an airplane is a more straightforward computer problem than navigating a busy city. How about surgery? Would you let a robot operate on you without a doctor present under the idea that the robot does it far better than a human would? Case by case we're going to have to wrap our minds around the idea that it's not always going to be a human that we interact with, and that'll be making big choices and big decisions that affect our lives.
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