Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as you ve journeyed deep into the potentiality of artificial intelligence, you ve also thought a great deal about human intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words? yeah, i think, for me, what we ve seen with a lot of the artificial intelligence debate has been a sort of naturally narcissistic in tendency to think about our intelligence. And what i think it does is offers the opportunity to introspect about our intelligence, to stand in a different place, to look at a different type of information processing, that that s done by a computer, and use our understanding of that, which we built and created, so we understand it, to look back and think about what s special about us. Is intelligence the right word to use when it comes to discussing what machines can do in this
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Great question. I wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the long epidemics for the year of covid and beyond but that would speak to an interested reader, not just a specialist in the field. There are lots of specialists in the field and i thought my valueadded might be to translate from specialists in the field to reader who are fascinate by the blizzard of legal issues that werent really on most peoples anda until now. We never thought about pt epidemics but think about them now, particularly what we can learn from them andhat do we know when its going to be over. I want to begin, john, if i can, really at the end of your book, and then ill pivot book at the end of our interview to ask you more but this question. You write, america has two histories, one ugly,he other far more appealing. In the months and years ahead, americans will hold the power between them. Lets hope the make the right choice. Im going to be asking you more but what that right choice
Kaiser this is the report you know humanity is looking up actually. This is the thing i like about very poor and decline because as Paul Tudor Jones said hes that Hedge Fund Billionaire and heres the headline to remind you of what he said Billionaire Hedge Fund manager Paul Tudor Jones a bet on bitcoin is a bet on human ingenue at. So we have to show you know we listen to all sorts of heterodox thinkers who imagine better worlds who imagine things can get better who always you know have faith in humanity that humanity at the end of the day will always rise above the elite and what the elite always want to crush innovation and ingenuity and things like that because they want to solidify their hold on power right so you know which when we look at what has happened in the United States with coded for example in the response. Keyser for very early on we spoke to bruce fenton hes a big queen are and what did he say he he was one of the early ists ive known we got prepared because of him in
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