Grady Booch: Enjoy the beauty of what you’re doing but also take responsibility!

Grady Booch is an IBM fellow, best-selling author, software engineer, geek, philosopher, storyteller, entrepreneur and former US air-force serviceman, who used to work on the secret space shuttle military program. If his bio is not enough to make you watch the interview on its own, let me just add that this was one of the most frank and fun conversations that I have had so far on Singularity 1 on 1. So don’t waste any more time reading but hit the play button and watch the interview! During our 50 min conversation with Grady Booch we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the moral and social implications of software engineering; his upcoming documentary on Computing the Human Experience; the 4 intellectuals who had the greatest impact on him; whether IBM is trying to create an AI or not; the coolest future apps for Watson and whether the NSA is interested; if intelligence is computable or not; the Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR theory of consciousness; determinism, free will and computability; Marvin Minsky and Noam Chomsky‘s claim that we are not making any progress in general artificial intelligence; Grady’s take on the technological singularity and the Turing Test… My favorite quotes that I will take away from this fun interview with Grady Booch are: “Enjoy the beauty in what you are doing but also take and own responsibility!” and “There is a magical world behind that curtain. Open it up! You will be amazed by the things you’ll see. […] Join us on that journey!”