Episode 11: Robert Engels: "Agents need the same thing as you and I: they need an idea of intent and purpose of the counterpart or adversary"

Iman Mossavat engages Robert Engels, Head of AI Futures Lab at Capgemini, in a discussion on the role of context and abstraction in AI. With 36 years of experience, Engels examines why current generative AI systems, like GPT-4, excel at tasks yet fail in complex, real-world settings. Robert argues, \“Two things are underperforming in the world of generative AI—abstraction and logical reasoning.\” Robert underscores the need for AI to adopt a world model akin to philosophical reasoning: "Plato and Socrates understood this when they built logics—they looked at the world and tried to grasp its principles."

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