101: Dr. Vivienne Ming – “AI” – a force to be reckoned with – award-winning US neuroscientist Dr. Vivienne Ming

Our guest in this episode is Dr. Vivienne Ming, a
US-neuroscientist, technologist, artificial intelligence
specialist, author and serial entrepreneur, who Forbes Magazine
described as “A Force In AI Unlike Any We Have Seen Before: My
conversation with one of the most influential, inspirational and
brilliant minds of our times” in its 10-part series on
inspirational women leaders in AI shaping the 21st century, who
was named one of the BBC’s Top 100 women and who describes
herself as a “mad scientist”. Vivienne builds machine learning to
study the brain and studies the brain to come up with better
machine learning.


Vivienne Ming’s research and inventions are frequently featured
in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Quartz Magazine and the New
York Times. Vivienne advises world leaders on global policy and
leading companies and organizations and the photo that Vivienne
took of Barack Obama during her visit to the White House
explaining her AI program for diabetics is reportedly the only
portrait of the President of the United States of America taken
with Google Glass.


„People talk about artificial general intelligence, but even one
of the most sophisticated systems in the world – GPT-4, just as
the current gold standard, it understands nothing about what it's
talking about. It's not lying to us when it gets it back wrong.
It has no concept of lying. It has no concepts whatsoever. It is
quite literally the world's most sophisticated autocomplete. And
what is amazing is how powerful that is.


In this truly fascinating, inspiring and humorous conversation
with Vivienne Ming, Vivienne gives us deep insights into where
she thinks artificial intelligence is going, how she sees
Chat-GPT, what this means for future skills, society and humans
in general, what she is currently working on and what Barack
Obama thought of this “mad scientist” when he met her.


From the power of ChatGPT as the world’s most sophisticated
autocomplete via enabling people to be in a position in 30 years
to be able to figure out for themselves which skills they need to
learn next, to the tipping point in human innovation with
exponential increases in information and the importance of
creativity and resilience. One thing is for sure, Vivienne has a
lot of the right questions we should be asking ourselves with
respect to artificial intelligence, society and technology, how
we can utilize AI to leverage human potential and what science
actually is and quite a lot of the right answers too.


BTW: What does a mad scientist actually do and why might the
White House have had to rethink security policies after her
visit? – tune in!