Ken Goldberg (Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet?) is an award-winning artist, roboticist, and engineering professor. Ken joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being born in Nigeria, growing up in rough and tumble City of Brotherly Love, and on how that taught him how to not take things lying down. Ken and Dax address the elephant panties in the room, how a course he took in 1981 began his trajectory in robotics and AI, and the tragic archetype of Pygmalion and the hubris of falling in love with your creation. Ken explains the Czechoslovakian etymology of the word “robot,” why don’t we have better robots yet, and how he stays optimistic doing a job predicated on failure.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, experts on expert. My friend is here today. Yes. Ken Goldberg, you'll hear our origin story, but I met him somewhere. I was judgmental of him.
Then, of course, I fell in love with him. And now I'm just smitten with this gentleman. Ken Goldberg is the Williams S. Floyd Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley and an award-winning roboticist, filmmaker, artist, and public speaker on AI and robotics. Now, really quick, I've read a couple comments that people are over AI. I get it. People feel a little inundated. And I get it.
It's the topic of the day. A, this isn't very heavy in AI talk. And then B, this is a million times more playful than you could ever imagine robotics could be. I'll also add that he has an art exhibit that is going until March. Don't wait till then. Go now. At Skirball, if you live in LA or are visiting, Skirball Cultural Center in LA.
And it's called Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology, Trees, Time, and Technology. Very, very cool exhibition.
um art project with these tree rings that are gorgeous and very creative ken goldberg i love you i think y'all will love them too please enjoy we are supported by zip recruiter oh get recruited according to research a major challenge many employers face is the pressure to hire quickly it's a tough hurdle to overcome it's so time consuming to search for great candidates and sort through applicants
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