The most interesting part of this interview is the discussion of what happens when human agency is further removed from an individual bot. If a bot has no owner, do we start viewing it as an animistic entity with rights and responsibilities? Or, do we return to a world of individual as opposed to corporate responsibility? with decentralized currency and homomorphic encryption, seems like we are pretty close to this world right now. Very exciting.
What I wonder is that considering that computation is universal, would it be easier to achieve human-like understanding of the environment using hierarchical models without any use of neural networks?<p>Can we achieve such mathematical breakthrough without making use of neuroscience or related biological fields?