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The Last Invention

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The AI revolution has begun — the product of a seventy year quest by scientists, mathematicians, and visionaries who set out to build machines that could think. But what began as a fringe idea has now become one of the most powerful forces of the 21st century. This is the story of that journey: its rivalries, its competing visions of utopia and apocalypse, and the race to build what may be humanity’s last invention.

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episode 01 - Ready Or Not

Rated 4.7 with 1.2K ratings

Season 1

Ready Or Not

Ready Or Not

The Signal

The Signal

Playing The Wrong Game

How Gamers Brought us Artificial Intelligence

Speedrun

How Fear Fueled the Race to Build Artificial Intelligence

Contact

Contact

The AI Doomers

The AI Doomers

The Scouts

The Scouts

The Accelerationists

The Accelerationists

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A great introduction to the topic (AI)... this is the series you can share with your friends and family to get them to understand what the fuss is about.
Sam Harris
A great, sweeping narrative podcast about AGI, the people building it, and the people trying to stop it.
Kevin Roose, The New York Times