David Eagleman

I mean, imagine building a robot that flops around for years and eventually crawls and eventually learns how to walk.

That's the kind of thing we need to do if we want it to be flexible and live wired.

And so I'm very interested in the possibilities.

I think the future is going to be much more biological than the way we do it right now, which is we build hardwired machinery that is inflexible.

I mean, the thing about AI, it can do very impressive things, but it's still not nearly as good as a kid.

You know, a five-year-old can walk into a room, navigate a very complex room, you know, between the couches and under the table and whatever.

can find her way to food and put food in her mouth, can socially manipulate adults, can do all these things.

AI is really stupid in comparison to that.

It's very good.

It's extraordinarily good at, for example, image recognition or categorization of things, but it can only tackle problems that are

discrete and rule-based.

So, for example, AI is great at chess and at Go.

It's beat the world champions at that.

But that's only because it's a constrained, rule-based system that doesn't have anything outside of it.

And the real world is nothing like that.

And so, by the way, even though

People often think, oh my gosh, AI can do anything.

It's taking over everything.

It can't even do any sort of strategy-based video game where you're running around with a gun and you're having to do strategies.

It can't do well at any of that stuff.