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8 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
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Prem Natarajan describes the history of artificial intelligence as alternating 'springs' of optimism and 'winters' of disappointment.
“People like to think of them as AI spring, followed by AI winter, followed by AI spring, followed by AI winter.”
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Prem Natarajan says early AI expert systems did not scale because they required too much human input.
“Initially, it was all these expert systems and all of that. And then we said, oh, they don't really scale because they require so much human input.”
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Prem Natarajan says he is ethnically Tamil and grew up in Maharashtra, India, in a four-language environment.
“My family is ethnically Tamil. Grew up in Maharashtra, where a lot of my immediate friends spoke Marathi.”
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Prem Natarajan began his career at BBN Technologies, which he describes as an MIT spin-off with a history tied to ARPANET and pioneering speech and language research.
“And so then I started working at this company called B B N Technologies, yeah, MIT spin-off, ARPANET.”
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At the University of Southern California, Prem Natarajan was vice dean of the School of Engineering, a computer science faculty member, and head of the Information Sciences Institute.
“I was vice dean in the School of Engineering. I was a faculty member in computer science, but I also was the head of the Information Sciences Institute.”
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Prem Natarajan headed the Alexa AI organization at Amazon before joining Capital One.
“And then I went to Amazon, where I headed the Alexa A I organization.”
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Prem Natarajan calls the idea that artificial general intelligence is imminent the biggest misconception about AI.
“The notion that A G I is around the corner, and I think it's a misconception that works at two levels.”
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Prem Natarajan says AI's biggest opportunity is to democratize access to services and resources across society.
“The biggest opportunity for A I is to, in my mind, democratize access to a lot of services, resources, et cetera, across the entire spread of our social spectrum.”
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