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The Last Invention

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Artificial Intelligence
Superintelligence
Alan Turing
World War II
Cold War
Enigma Code
Dartmouth Summer Program
IJ. Good
Geoffrey Hinton
Silicon Valley
Chatgpt
Nick Bostrom
Jack Dorsey
Michael Brock
Elon Musk
HAL 9000
Existential Threats
Liv Boeree
Sam Harris
Utopia and Apocalypse

The AI revolution has begun – the product of a seventy-year quest by scientists, mathematicians, and visionaries who set out to build machines that could think. But what began as a fringe idea has now become one of the most powerful forces of the 21st century. This is the story of that journey: its rivalries, its competing visions of utopia and apocalypse, and the race to build what may be humanit... more

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What if the path to a true thinking machine was found not just in a lab… but in a game? For decades, AI’s greatest triumphs came from games: checkers, chess, Jeopardy. But no matter how many trophies it took from humans, it still couldn’t think. In t... more

In 1951, Alan Turing predicted machines might one day surpass human intelligence and 'take control.' He created a test to alert us when we were getting close. But seventy years of science fiction later, the real threat feels like just another movie p... more

A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to stop it, or to prepare for its arrival.

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For over seventy years, technologists have dreamed of building a true “thinking machine.” An artificial intelligence so powerful it would reshape every aspect of human life. Would it unlock unimaginable abundance? Or bring about our destruction?

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World champion poker player and game theorist
Episode: EP 3: Playing the Wrong Game
Geoffrey Hinton
Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a pioneer of neural networks.
Episode: EP 3: Playing the Wrong Game
Demis Hasabis
Founder of DeepMind and child prodigy in games.
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Episode: EP 3: Playing the Wrong Game
Mike Brock
Former Silicon Valley executive who raises alarms about a conspiracy in the tech industry related to AI
Episode: EP 1: Ready Or Not

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EP 1: Ready Or Not
Q: What is the biggest threat posed by the rise of AI according to experts?
Many experts believe that creating an AGI that evolves into a Superintelligence could lead to humanity's demise due to it possibly not valuing human existence.

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