And here we go.

All right, Nick, this is one of the things that scares people, more than anything,

is the idea that we're creating something, or someone's going to create something

it's going to be smarter than us it's going to replace us is that something we

should really be concerned about I presume you're referring to babies. I'm referring to artificial intelligence.

Yes.

Well, it's the big fear and the big hope, I think.

Both? At the same time yeah how is it the big hope well

There are a lot of things wrong with the world as it is now pull this up to your face if you would

All the problems we have.

Most of them could be solved if we were smarter

or if we had somebody on our side who were a lot smarter with better

technology and so forth.

Also I think if we want to imagine some really grand future where humanity or our descendants

when they go out and colonize the universe I think that's likely to happen if it's going to happen

at all after we have super-intelligence that then

develops the technology to make that possible. The real question is whether or not we would be able to

harness this intelligence or whether it would

dominate. Yeah that certainly is one question. Not the only, you could

imagine that we harness it but then use it for bad purposes as we have a lot of other

technologies through history.

So I think there are really two challenges we need to meet.

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