The Chat Bots Are Going to Initiate a Revolution in Our Epistemological Apparition

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I think that the new chat bots are going to initiate a tremendous leap or movement in our epistemological apparatus of understanding. So it's one of the things that these bots do is they give you answers. And so far the answers have not been 100% reliable. They've been apparently very bad at math, where like, unlike Google or something, you know, large multiplication problem and it'll get it like a calculator. But the chat tends to kind of make up numbers. Or people have had degrees, people make up degrees or projects they've worked on that just don't exist. That sound very plausible. I'm just saying that this is going to bring forth a whole bunch of

On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier. To his surprise, Kelly had more to say than he thought, and kept adding to the advice over the years, compiling a life’s wisdom into the pages of his book: Excellent Advice for Living.

Shermer and Kelly discuss: protopian progress • ChatGPT • artificial intelligence; an existential threat? • evolution • cultural progress • self-driving cars • innovation • social media • putting an end to war • compound interest and the long term effect of small changes • why you don’t want to be a billionaire • beliefs and reason • setting unreasonable goals • persistence as key to success • probabilities and statistics, not algebra and calculus • investing: buy and hold • how to fully become yourself.

Kevin Kelly helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. His previous books include What Technology Wants, and The Inevitable, a New York Times bestseller. He is known for his technological optimism. Currently he is a Senior Maverick at Wired and lives in Pacifica, California.