For nearly 60 episodes, one question has persisted through What’s Tech: what is happening in the ending of Steven Spielberg’s 2001 sci-fi film A.I. Artificial Intelligence? To settle the question once and for all, I invited my friend and artificial intelligence expert, Sam Byford, to appear on the show.
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Sadly, as you will hear me learn, Sam Byford is an expert in actual artificial intelligence, not the film Artificial Intelligence. Truth is, he’s never even seen the film. But that’s okay. This is still one of my favorite episodes of What’s Tech, as Byford shares what it was like to attend the recent match-up of human Go champion Lee Se-dol and artificial intelligence AlphaGo.
As for the ending of A.I., I’m sure we’ll have an answer in the next 60 episodes.
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