Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Machine Smarts

What's intelligence? Ashley Llorens, Chief of the <a href="https://www.jhuapl.edu/isc" target="_blank">Intelligent Systems Center</a> at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, has a good idea. He joins us to talk about intelligence of the human-type and the machine-type, and what it will take for machines to get up to speed. We'll take some caller questions, including one from Ahmed, who wants to know: will AI eventually take away our motivation to learn? Plus, Ashley talks about the connection between being a hip hop artist and a machine learning engineer.You can listen to ad-free new episodes of Science Rules! only on Stitcher Premium. For a free month of Stitcher Premium, go to <a href="http://www.stitcherpremium.com/" target="_blank">stitcherpremium.com</a> and use promo code ‘SCIENCE.' This episode is sponsored by Credo Mobile (<a href="http://www.credo.com/science" target="_blank">www.credo.com/science</a>), KiwiCo (<a href="http://www.kiwico.com/SCIENCERULES" target="_blank">www.kiwico.com/SCIENCERULES</a>), Quality Logo Products (<a href="http://www.qualitylogo.com" target="_blank">www.qualitylogo.com</a> code: SCIENCERULES), and Honeybook (<a href="http://www.honeybook.com" target="_blank">www.honeybook.com</a> code: SCIENCERULES).

Bill Nye is on a mission to change the world — one voicemail at a time. Bill and science writer Corey S. Powell take your burning questions and put them to the world's leading experts on just about every topic in the universe. Should you stop eating cheeseburgers to combat climate change? Could alien life be swimming inside the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? Does your pet parakeet learn to sing the way that you learned to speak? Bill, Corey, and their special guests will answer those questions and convince you that... science rules!