Armchair Expert Show –  Ken Goldberg interviewed by Dax and Monica – Discussion Timeline

90 mins, posted 9 Jan 2025

Podcast (audio only):

https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/ken-goldberg

YouTube (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPkT-J5NOg

Times below on YouTube version:

00:00:0        Introduction, About AI but playful, Skirball Art Exhibit

00:2:00        Ken is “Unicorny”

00:2:45        How Dax and Ken met

00:6:50        The Underpants on the floor

00:8:40        The Elephant in the Room

00:9:00        Being born in Nigeria

00:12:00        Bethlehem PA

00:16:00        Getting 2 front teeth knocked out

00:20:20        Attitudes toward money

00:23:30        UPenn, Edinborough, Scotland, AI

00:25:30        Morocco story

00:29:00        Al

00:33:00        Esalen, coming to California

00:36:00         Berkeley  - Rebels, Beat Poets, Oppenheimer

00:38:00          Robotics History:  Egyptians, Pygmalian, Golem, Frankenstein, Her, Hubris, Fears, “To save energy, Robots will kill all the Humans”

00:42:30        Henry Ford, The word “robot” (1920), Pandemic, Sigmund Freud’s Uncanny

00:45:30          Robot Grasping

00:46:00        Moravec’s Paradox, crows ore dextrous than robots

00:49:00        Animal motor skills - 300M years evolution vs. Human Intelligence - 6M years

00:51:30          Human Touch

00:53:30        The Roomba is like an amoeba

00:59:30        Dex-Net, Jeff Bezos story

01:04:00        Friction and quantum physics

01:06:00        Robotics Bubble - overexpectations

01:07:00           Why you can’t always trust videos about robots

01:14:00        Fears about robots stealing jobs

01:17:00         Theory about AI doomsayers

01:18:00        Notebook LM and Complementarity

01:23:00        Art, Tiffany, Getty Museum Art & Science exhibit at the Skirball: Ancient Wisdom for a future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology

01:26:00        Art and Science,  Aha Moments in discovery

01:30:00        Progress is not exponential

01:32:00        Why people love Dax and Monica