16 min listen
#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Aug 29, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Max Tegmark about his new book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. They talk about the nature of intelligence, the risks of superhuman AI, a nonbiological definition of life, the substrate independence of minds, the relevance and irrelevance of consciousness for the future of AI, near-term breakthroughs in AI, and other topics. You can support the Making Sense podcast and receive subscriber-only content at samharris.org/subscribe.
Released:
Aug 29, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
#2 — Why Don't I Criticize Israel?: In the wake of the recent war in Gaza, many readers have asked "Why don't you criticize Israel?" Here is my response. You can read an annotated transcript of this podcast at: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/why-dont-i-criticize-israel by Making Sense with Sam Harris