After a year’s hiatus, the AI Debate hosted by Gary Marcus and Vincent Boucher returned with a gaggle of AI thinkers, this time including policy types and scholars outside of the discipline of AI such as Noam Chomsky. Montreal.ai and Gary Marcus
After a one-year hiatus, the annual artificial intelligence debate organized by Montreal.ai and by NYU emeritus professor and AI gadfly Gary Marcus returned Friday evening, once again organized as a virtual-only event as in 2020.
The debate this year, AI Debate 3: The AGI Debate, as it’s called, focused on the concept of artificial general intelligence, the notion of a machine capable of integrating a myriad of reasoning abilities approaching human levels.
While the previous debate featured a number of AI scholars, Friday’s meet-up drew participation by 16 participants from a much wider gamut of professional backgrounds. In addition to numerous computer scientists and AI luminaries, the program included legendary linguist and activist…