The Ghost in the Machine

Yeah.

And I could, you know, spoiler alert, I'm not going to be able to answer the question.

Right.

So, you know, we talked about it before we started is this is kind of shaping the discussion that I think is going to be.

Not just by us, but by many around the world on what it is that we're creating as we move from artificial intelligence to general intelligence to super intelligence, which from my understanding, even though I think the United States is relabeled artificial to super intelligence.

um that's actually different phases of what most people think uh like on an evolutionary scale so when you get to super intelligence it'll be beyond the human capacity of knowledge that would be super to us um and obviously as we go through that if we get there and it seems like we're headed there then we have to determine not only is it conscious, but is it superior in the sense that we should be subordinate? That's a whole other conversation we should have.

But you can see people even logically heading that way.

I'm not saying I agree with it, but if something is so far beyond our intellectual capacity, why wouldn't we ask it to make some of our key decisions? But we'll save that for another conversation.

potentially series of discussions on artificial intelligence.

But right now, I mean, so yes, I saw the Dawkins article.

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist.

That's right.

He and my dad had known each other.

He referenced that when he was alive.

But he's also pretty famous as an atheist.

So, you know, somebody you might have read as an atheist.

I think you wrote The God Delusion.

That's

right.

Of many books, one of many, but yes.

Yes, right.

That's probably the one that I recognize the quickest, probably because I got the most attention.

But he, yeah, and you know, everybody has a right to their own opinion.

He, from reading his description of it, seemed pretty convinced that he was talking to a cognizant, conscious being.

And this person obviously has serious scientific credentials and isn't one that's just, I think, swayed by persuasion and obviously not mythology and some kind of fantasy.