TEOTWAWKI 3 - The Singularity, Part I

Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Martin Rees... all have warned about
the risk from Artificial Intelligence. Centres like the Future of
Humanity Institute in Oxford, and the Centre for Existential Risk
at Cambridge, rate the risk from artificial intelligence as way
up there on the scale of potential human apocalypses. But it
won't look like killer terminator-robots. We are standing on the
precipice of a future that's almost impossible to comprehend.
Will it be possible to survive?


In this episode, we'll lay the groundwork for talking about the
singularity by introducing some of the fields involved -
robotics, artificial intelligence and the efforts to create an
artificial general intelligence. And we'll try to understand some
of the incredible possibilities that might arise as we slowly
blur the line between the artificial and the 'real'. We have a
choice: tech utopia, or tech dystopia. But in the world of the
Singularity, there is no room for Luddites.

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