TFIE067 ML08: The Mountain - A metaphor for aligning human perception and machine learning

It is difficult for many of us to understand the language of machine learning and thus we map this into the only common experience we have of AI: popular culture. The gap between ‘Skynet’ and what Yoshua Bengio is describing is vast. We need a new fiction that can help us all understand what it really is and the impact it is likely to have. This is a podcast version of the article of the same title in the TFIE Medium publication, written and recorded by TFIE collaborator David Clement.