Frederick johanson wants to know, is general a, i really a question about hardware and processing speed. If it was, wouldn't a computer to day be able to simulate a few seconds of a i like it had a thousand years to processi? I think compute is a very important factor in driving ai progress over the last eight years or so, with a whole deep learning revolution. But even if we had enough compute run an a g i, human level mind, we might not have enough compute to sort of create it.
Are we in a simulation? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice take a deep dive into simulation theory, consciousness, and free will with Oxford theorist Nick Bostrom. Is this The Matrix?
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