What if the biggest barrier to understanding artificial intelligence isn’t computing power, but vocabulary? Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind Dr. Been Kim argued at a talk on Friday that as artificial intelligence (AI) systems grow more powerful, our existing language can no longer keep up with its new developments.
During a lecture titled “Why We Can’t Understand AI Using Our Existing Vocabulary,” Kim combined computer science with linguistics and psychology to argue that the words we use to understand AI are no longer sufficient. The lecture was based on a position paper of the same name that she wrote in collaboration with two other researchers at Google DeepMind, John Hewitt and Robert…