Discussing the limits of artificial intelligence

Alice Lloyd George is an investor at RRE Ventures and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. It's hard to visit a tech site these days without seeing a headline about deep learning for X, and that AI is on the verge of solving all our problems. Marcus, a best-selling author, entrepreneur and professor of psychology at NYU, has spent decades studying how children learn, and believes that throwing more data at problems won't necessarily lead to progress in areas such as understanding language, not to speak of getting us to AGI -- artificial general intelligence. Marcus is the voice of anti-hype at a time when AI is all the hype, and in 2015 he translated his thinking into a startup, Geometric Intelligence, which uses insights from cognitive psychology to build better-performing, less-data-hungry machine learning systems. The team was acquired by Uber in December to run Uber's AI labs, where his co-founder Zoubin Ghahramani has now been appointed chief scientist.