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#324 — Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Thermodynamic Objection to Machines

"I just think there'll be machines that will rely on. Let me get to the second part of the argument, which is actually your chess computer thing," he said. "The way to be to chess computer is to unplug it, right? And so this is the objection." He added: "Once you're in that domain, the computer ively hostile machines are operating with the same thermodynamic limits as the rest of us"

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