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by Patrick O’Shaughnessy

Show Notes
0:00 – (First Question) – Summarizing his collection of
interests that led to his three books
1:48 – Biggest questions in AI
2:32 – Defining AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and
its history
4:07 – Computing
Machinery and Intelligence
6:43 – The idea of the most human human
8:48 – Tactics that have changed the most in learning to be
the most human human
14:59 –Tests for measuring AGI and updates made to them
19:01 – Concerns for once we have AGI
24:55 – Self-awareness as a threshold for AGI
30:47 – Skeptics’ take on AGI
36:03 – Advice for people building careers and how AGI will
impact work
36:21 –
Rise of the Machines and Robots
37:05 – Explore/Exploit trade off
43:46 – How explore/exploit applies to business concepts
47:55 – Impacts of AGI on the economy
51:29 – Highlights from his second book
56:28 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Brian