Connor is joined by Nye, Joe, Sam and Zach to discuss Artificial Intelligence. Throughout the course of the conversation we touch upon the history of AI and its mechanics, applications in business, self-driving cars, neural networks, the likelihood of dystopian scenarios, singularities and how AI affects the economy. We also introduce and unpack some of the heavier terms associated with the field. As you may expect from a philosophy podcast, we explore some philosophical questions too. Some of these (poorly introduced) questions include AI in fiction and popular imagination, its effect on human worth and how we think of humanity, transhumanism and human augmentation, the need for philosophy in AI related jobs, apotheosis or "playing God" and what sense it makes to talk about AI being "moral". 

As you may have guessed from our usual standards, the conversation ends on a tangent about sexbots until we are interrupted by Zach playing a didgeridoo.  As with most topics we discuss, we are interested in returning to the conversation at a later date to unpack some of the ideas further and, in particular, to explore the idea of consciousness and what this spells for AI's development.  

Here is an essay from Joe about transhumanism and "becoming like God": https://twobeersuntilphronesis.weebly...