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The Skeptics Guide #940 - Jul 15 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Future of Computing

In 2019, a researcher at Google said we will have AI and computers that are as good, if not better, than the best mathematicians in the world within a decade. And I think there's some interesting ideas here where basically you train, you know, large language models much like chat GPT on language from the general internet. But then there's the second question which is what will these computers do to us, right? You know, the thing that that makes us scary, it makes us scared or it makes me scared is the computers that can kind of start to prompt themselves with what to do.

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