EP 238 Sam Sammane on Humanity’s Role in an AI-Dominated Future

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Jim talks with Sam Sammane about the ideas in his new book The Singularity of Hope: Humanity's Role in an AI-Dominated Future. They discuss the hype around generative AI, obstacles to AGI, reinforcement learning, intuition & emotion, human-AI augmentation, rules of thumb, the plausibility of the brain as a quantum computer, Jim's ScriptHelper project, machine-like jobs that will likely be automated, the age of retraining, using AI to self-augment, the digital proletariat, a compassionate approach to rethinking society, a priesthood for investing, AI-augmented drug discovery, a major uplift in education, love as an engine of learning, the danger of considering AI in education as cheating, personal info agents, advances in tuning of LLMs, brain-computer interfaces, roads toward AGI, the pure AI singularity, the limits of our understanding of intelligence, collecting wisdom, and much more.

[@teleologist]

Jim your podcast is great. It should get more exposure!

[@markmoore9137]

John Robb's personal data ownership approach might be a way to provide a partial and variable base supporting some kind of UBI, with redistribution of some kind bringing the monthly payment on up to whatever the base is.