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Doomed to discuss AI (Changelog & Friends #13)
Description
Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.
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Featuring:
- Jon Evans – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:
- Exadelic on Amazon
- Inside GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
- A Study: Ancient Egyptians used sound waves in building pyramids
- Extropia’s Children Redux - by Jon Evans
- The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | Time
- Nick Jones
- Dennis E. Taylor
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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Let's talk!
(00:38) - Uncorrected bound manuscripts
(01:58) - GitHub Arctic Code Vault
(04:50) - Never gonna have that in my bio
(05:59) - Market for predicting the future
(07:57) - The Simpsons predictions
(12:21) - Cultural history of AI doom
(15:20) - Sounds & the pyramids of Egypt
(16:07) - Ultra sound drug delivery
(19:01) - We can't build the pyramids?
(21:52) - Physics evolving?
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