Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar14 Elo 2025

Ep 98: There's no I in AI, Ben Shneiderman on The Evolution and State of Artificial Intelligence

Useful Resources:

1. Ben Shneiderman, Professor Emeritus, University Of Maryland.
2. Richard Hamming and Hamming Codes.
3. Human Centered AI - Ben Shneiderman.
4. Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon.
5. Raj Reddy and the Turing Award.
6. Doug Engelbart.
7. Alan Kay.
8. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
9. Software psychology: Human factors in computer and information systems - Ben Shneiderman.
10. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction - Ben Shneiderman.
11. Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Languages - Ben Shneiderman.
12. Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence - Marvin Minsky.
13. Herbert Gelernter.
14. Computers And Thought - Edward A Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman.
15. Lewis Mumford.
15. Technics and Civilization - Lewis Mumford.
16. Buckminster Fuller.
17. Marshall McLuhan.
18. Roger Shank.
19. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Jonathan Haidt.
20. John C. Thomas, IBM.
21. Yousuf Karsh, photographer.
22. Gary Marcus, professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU.
23. Geoffrey Hinton.
24. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
25. There Is No A.I. - Jaron Lanier.
26. Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness - Episode 94 of Brave New World.
27. A 'White-Collar Blood Bath' Doesn't Have to Be Our Fate - Tim Wu
28. Information Management: A Proposal - Tim Berners-Lee
29. Is AI-assisted coding overhyped? : METR study
30. RLHF, Reinforcement learning from human feedback
31. Joseph Weizenbaum
32. What Is Computer Science? - Allen Newel, Alan J. Perlis, Herbert A. Simon

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