The A.I. Monologues w/ James Whittaker

It has become fashionable to preach a dystopian AI future while simultaneously living in a human-induced dystopian present. We humans have trashed our environment, poisoned our political discourse, normalized obscene wealth and extreme poverty, raised taxes to historic levels and created the least happy generation of children on record. We have no business lecturing imaginary robots.

Our best hope at reversing our present dystopia is AI (and, yes, I have an attainable solution for eliminating taxes and resolving IP theft in one fell swoop, worth the price of admission alone). Indeed, the only dystopian future I see is one where western democracies lose the AI race to bad actors and asshat autocracies. Winning the AI race is our only hope at reversing otherwise irreversible human catastrophe. We need to invest like a mo-fo.

You’ll:

• Hear the origin story of machine intelligence (*this* is a story for the ages)
• Understand how machine “brains” work (don't care if you are mathy or not)
• Envision a world where we no longer live to work and work to live (this is going to require some preparation folks)
• Learn how wealth will be generated and governments will be funded in a post-work, post-tax world (this is the fun part)
• Walk out of this talk with optimism for the future and a buzz from the beer
  

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