The Future of AI

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NPCs are probably the first place that we will start to gain familiarity with other forms of intelligence. And it will just start conversations in work assistance and we're going to have this incredible rush of virtual assistance for fun, for games, for work. Many people will go down the way of personification because we have a deep human desire seemingly for that - which has been going on for thousands of years.

The two hottest topics in tech right now are the rise of generative AI and, with Apple’s recent push into spatial computing, the mainstreaming of augmented reality. Will silicon-based machines develop sentience? Will human experience extend into virtual worlds? These distinct technologies may eventually blend to spawn a surprising future, as our “real” world becomes digitally enhanced and our machines behave increasingly like humans.

Today, a provocative discussion with some big (human) thinkers: Steven Johnson, visiting scholar at Google Labs and author of ”Extra Life,” “Where Good Ideas Come from,” and “How We Got to Now”; philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers, author of ”The Conscious Mind” and “Reality+”; and Betaworks founder and AI investor John Borthwick.

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