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526. Steven Novella, co-author of The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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Is There a Human Level Intelligence?

The idea that the paste of technology is going to keep speeding up. If we keep progressing our digital computer technology, we'll eventually be able to make something that has human level intelligence,. That's pretty much agiven. The only question really is, when? Is it going to be 50 years, a hundred years, whatever? But once we do, there's also absolutely no reason why we're going to stop at human level intelligence. We're going to blow right past it, right? It doesn't represent any kind of plateau or threshold or anything. And so what's the world gong to be like when we have a g is that are a million times more intelligent than humans with

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