We Study Billionaires - The Investors Podcast

Dr. Richard Wallace, creator of ALICE and AIML, shares his journey from 1990s chatbot innovation to today’s AI frontiers. He and Preston also explore AI’s learning methods, human vs machine intelligence, and the evolving role of creativity in artificial minds. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:46 - How a 1990 New York Times article inspired Richard Wallace’s AI journey 00:03:42 - What made the ALICE chatbot revolutionary in its time 00:07:20 - The principles behind minimalist robotics and their influence on AI 00:12:00 - How AIML works and why it was crucial to early chatbot success 00:16:30 - The contrast between supervised and unsupervised learning methods 00:17:20 - Why LLM decision-making processes remain hard to interpret 00:20:33 - How humans and chatbots use language in surprisingly robotic ways 00:24:43 - The philosophical roots of the Turing Test and its modern critiques 00:40:19 - Insights on combining symbolic and neural approaches in AI today 00:41:18 - What Wallac