YouTube premiered a series, fronted by Robert Downey Jr., that seeks to demystify artificial intelligence.
The actor produced the documentary series with the partnership of his wife Susan. It is definitely one of the platform’s highest-profile and biggest-budgeted factual commissions to date.
The Iron Man character inclusion will be looking to give the Age of AI mass appeal. An AI expert says there’s “lots of eye candy for viewers with short attention spans”.
Calum Chace, the author of four books on Artificial Intelligence, says that artificial intelligence is a “large, complex, and important” subject.
“The message of the [first] episode is clear: machine learning can make us more human, not less, but we will have to think carefully about where we want to draw the line,” he noted.
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Viewers can watch the series for free, however, they will have to wait for the subsequent episodes to be released. Unless they pay a “premium” subscription fee, which will, in turn, unlock the first 4 episodes.
This is because of a change in the YouTube strategy earlier this year. YouTube originally puts most of its original content behind a paywall.
The Baby X Project
The first episode of the Age of AI centers on a digitally, AI-powered baby, themed: the Baby X project.
A special-effects artist Mark Sagar leads the Baby X project. It aims to teach a digital infant via a virtual brain powered by neural networks.
The second episode focuses on AI and healthcare, an area Google has heavily invested in. It shows how a speech assistance tool called WaveNet developed by the tech giant’s DeepMind division is helping a former National Football League (NFL) athlete speak again. It does this using a computer-generated voice that sounds like he used to.
Robert, however, doesn’t feature much, acting more as a voice-over with just a cameo performance at the start, explaining some of the more complex terms associated with AI.
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