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AI Is A FAKE: Why Your Tech Isn't As Smart As You Think
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Is AI actually smart, or is it just a fancy parrot? 🦜 Think you’re talking to a machine that thinks? Think again. In this episode, we dive deep into the mind-bending interview between Peter McCormack and chemist Lee Cronin . We're peeling back the layers on why your favorite chatbot isn't actually 'conscious' and why Assembly Theory might be the key to proving it. From the mysteries of the origins of life to the stark reality that AI is just a mirror of human history, this...
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It's flesh, it's bone, it's atoms.
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But we are going to start today with a premise that is, frankly, designed to
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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- 163 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 510 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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I want you to stop whatever you are doing for just a second. Seriously, if you're like not driving right now, just take a moment and look down at your hands. Just stare right at them. Yeah, exactly. Wiggle your fingers, turn them over, look at the lines on your palms,
the way your skin folds over your knuckles, and ask yourself, what are you actually looking at? Right, because if you asked anyone that, you'd get a pretty standard answer, you know? Exactly. You'd probably say, I'm looking at my hands. It's flesh, it's bone, it's atoms.
I'm a biological machine. But we are going to start today with a premise that is, frankly, designed to completely shatter how you view your own existence. It really is. It's a total paradigm shift.
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