Artificial Intelligence: Life is Weird
Episode description
When the robot overlords come for me, tell them I'm out grabbing a byte. I joke, but artificial intelligence may legitimately mean the end of life as we know it if we're not careful. In this series I'll be investigating the many facets of AI and what the future may hold for humanity.
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Resources:
Uyghur genocide, perpetuated by the government of China:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/asia/china-surveillance-xinjiang.html
CRISPR gene editing:
https://www.newscientist.com/definition/what-is-crispr/
AlphaFold AI protein folding project:
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology
Deep Blue chess AI project:
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/
Prions and mad cow disease:
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/all-about-bse-mad-cow-disease
Tesla’s AI:
Sam Harris TED Talk:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon
Brief history of the universe:
https://www.space.com/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream
Kardashev scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
A significant portion of the video was inspired by CGP Grey’s video on AI, it is definitely worth a watch:
Music:
Deep Relaxation Preview by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5726-deep-relaxation-preview
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Healing by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3860-healing
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