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Gödel, Escher, Bach author Doug Hofstadter on why today’s AI terrifies him

Wonderful book.


Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, voices his concerns about how the current wave of rapid advancements in AI may endanger humanity.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction.
0:34 When I started out, computers were rigid.
1:29 I thought Artificial Intelligence would take hundreds of years.
1:59 I never imagined computers would rival humans so soon.
2:53 It feels like humans are about to be eclipsed.
4:01 I feel diminished, inferior.
5:01 AI pioneer Geoff Hinton may regret part of his life’s work.
6:07 Conclusion: what do you think?

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