Is There a God?

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i think i'm going to take a second here to cheaply psychoanalyze this because, and i had dick bostrum on the programme talking about his fearsf of super intelligence. A, and i suggested to him that his view of machines was very much like the mediaeval view of god, omniscient, omnipresent, can do anything. Ah, there's a certain similar to me in that minski quote. It's like, well, we'll be taken care of by a machine, a man. It's no different than the myth of religion, it's just a different kind of religion. I mean, religion isn't just the rapture where you leave the

Psychologist and author Sherry Turkle of MIT talks about her book, The Empathy Diaries, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The Empathy Diaries is a memoir about Turkle's secretive family and how that secrecy turned Turkle into an acute observer, skilled at revealing the story behind the story. She also chronicles the early days of artificial intelligence and the evolution of the computer. Topics in this conversation include the challenges of family, the role of technology in our lives, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the importance of Bambi.