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How Computers Dream with David Holz

What Future with Joshua Topolsky

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AI and Art

The problem with words like AI is that people give it a lot of agency and like will and purpose and meaning. And so where it's like this thing, it doesn't have a story or a narrative or like any will. It does learn actually from lots of people and it changes and there's a co-evolution. Like the flower is trying to be beautiful for the bees, but the bees pick which flowers are the ones that get to survive. The question is: Why do both us and the bees find something beautiful? There's a lot of really interesting questions.

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