In the last few weeks, chat GPT was released. Everybody I know is currently interacting with having conversations with language models. It's one of these inflection points where you just feel that something is fundamentally changing and you're watching it happen. We have to take into account that this is going to go much further than what we've seen so far.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold more than 40 million copies. He joins Rufus for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, life in the Stone Age, the future of democracy, and the threat of AI.
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