Whether or not AI models really are “intelligent” is a philosophical and scientific question with profound consequences for how people use and develop the technology. But what does “intelligence” really mean? Blaise Agüera y Arcas has a provocative answer: what if intelligence—and all of life—is just a product of computation?

Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor. Guest: Blaise Agüera y Arcas, CTO of technology & society at Google and the author of “What is Intelligence?”

If you enjoyed this episode, scroll back to our two-part series, which asked: what is artificial general intelligence? Or, to learn how biology inspired the AI systems of today, find our series on the science that built the AI revolution.

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