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164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Ai Gets Out of the Box Every Time

If i can believe that such a thing can exist, and levels of alien intelligence can get so high, at some point you'll reach what any one of us would call god. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable for magic. So exploring the universe, if i come upon a computer out there and god waves to mei i don't have a issue with that. And is that any different from us living in a simulation? Yes. That would be a natural extension of this concept of, no, we're not necessarily the top of the intelligence heap.

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