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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Artificial Intelligence - What Do You Think It Will Do?

I would hope it would teach us some humility. Humans are very big on exceptionalism. I suspect if we ever unravel it, it will turn out to be less than we thought in a way. Our excesses don't tend to come from humility. You know, our excesses come from the opposite, megalomania. So that's a really good example of a technology revealing to us humans something fundamental about our world, about our society. It's almost this creation is helping us understand ourselves"

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