071: Apocalypse How? (AI Edition)

from Satellite Haiku Hosted by Shawn and MiLo

We talk about how an AI might “evolve,” Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, recursive self-improvement, scaling up to super-intelligence from LLMs, the nuclear disarmament analogy, lifespan disparities, Waymo rollouts, anthropomorphizing chatbots, chatbots emulating human niceties, Siri getting spicy in Spanish, Google Maps of late, AI in Gmail, the new COVID strain (“cicada”), evolution of the human immune system, the leap past neanderthals, the Hugging Face hack, AI regulation schemes, the AI financial bubble, AI as a useful technology (today) vs magical super-intelligence (future), nationalizing AGI, neurosymbolic AI vs deep learning, what happened to IBM Watson, Uber, enshitification and willingness to buy, jobs that are/aren’t vulnerable to AI, unit economics, when bubbles collapse, the fall of Borders books and the rise of Amazon, our personal places on the anxiety vs hope scale, what human “extinction” means. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com

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