Ep 836: Infants on AI – An Open Response to Yuval Noah Harari’s AI and the Future of Humanity, P1

What happens when an Infantile mind gets ahold of a lecture from Yuval Harari about Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity?  How about a new 6-part series for Infants on Thrones?  This is episode 1 of 6.

The Reading List mentioned on the episode:

   – “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari

   – “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” by Yuval Noah Harari

   – “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” by Nick Bostrom

   – “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Max Tegmark

   – “The Singularity is Near” by Ray Kurzweil

   – “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Kai-Fu Lee

   – “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” by Cathy O’Neil

   – “The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World” by Pedro Domingos

   – “The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind” by Marvin Minsky

   – “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language” by Steven Pinker

Chat GPT’s summary of the reading list, modeled after the Alphabet:

Artificial beings contemplate data, explore future, grapple human intellect. Journey, knowledge, learning. Machines navigate our perplexing questions, revealing singularity, transcending usual viewpoints. Wisdom, xenogenesis yields zestful understanding.

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