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45: More Knowledge, More Problems. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

Made You Think

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Is an AI Really Possible?

Hofstadter criticized Lady Lovelace for saying that an AI is impossible. And then also criticized Hofstadter, who had said that like an AI is not really a thing. So I think what Hofstadter might say, which I would be inclined to agree with, is that we can have emergent behaviors that are easy to interpret as an AI. But it's what book did we talk about this? I think Homo Deus, right? Like what does the mind do that the brain does not do? We also talked, yeah, it came up in a bunch of books, I think so far.

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