(EF34) Digital Cobbler
Even if the first general AI is a clever cobbling of every narrow AI ever built, it will likely appear to be a conscious superintelligence as far as our ape-like minds are concerned.
Podcast Quotes
(EF34) The Bright Side
Even if humanity gets annihilated by AI, at least we’re the ones watching it from the first row. If you take into consideration the short time we’re alive and how rarely revolutionary events happen, it’s almost like winning some kind of twisted lottery.
(EF34) Your Kid’s Business is Screwed
Researchers are applying robotics and AI models to literally every profession from radiology to elder care to lemonade stands.
(EF34) Parallel Evolution
It would seem we are trying so hard to evolve outside who we are that we might have convinced ourselves it’s impossible to do it any other way.
(EF33) Tugging Our Heart Strings
It’s likely to be emotional manipulation that eventually fools humans into thinking we’ve created conscious and superintelligent beings.
(EF33) Monkey Play
One of the great weaknesses of the human mind is the inability to stop unwanted and irrelevant thoughts.
(EF33) Predictably Pathetic
The human mind is so gullible in matters of status and ego, even when you are fully aware of its fragile tendencies and intentions.
(EF33) Learning Machines
If humans could ignore the emotional obstacles and not give up similar to AI, could human creativity be unlimited?
(EF32) The Dangerous Evolution
What makes us become better, smarter and more skillful: the feeling of comfort or the feeling of danger?
(EF32) You Can’t Force Suffering Out
Isn’t it time we start accepting suffering as an important element in the equation instead of constantly trying and failing to eliminate it?
