My guest today, Blaze Aguirrei Arcus is a fellow at Google Research who studies

Artificial Intelligence. He's known for being absolutely brilliant and endlessly creative.

My original ambition was to be a theoretical physicist.

I wanted to understand the nature of the universe and the really big questions.

And honestly, I didn't think about computers. the nature of the universe and the really big questions.

And honestly, I didn't think about computers

as a serious thing as like what I would be doing with my life.

But of course, the more you play around with something,

the better you get at it.

Welcome to people I mostly admire with Steve Levitt. Artificial intelligence is altering the way we live in fundamental ways that we're only beginning to comprehend,

and I can't think of a better person than Blaze to help make sense of it all.

I've heard that you started creating products that you started creating products that people wanted at a really early age. Is it true or is it just a legend that as a teenager you created an algorithm for the US Navy that changed the way that they were maneuvering boats greatly reducing seasickness?

You really have done your research?

Yeah, I did.

I think I was 14 at the time.

14, oh God, how, okay, wait, okay, you were 14?

Yeah, so there was this program back then, I don't know if it still exists, but it was a

Cold War thing, I suppose.

There were programs looking for technical kids in the US

I hadn't actually been in the US all that long I moved with my parents from Mexico City

a few years earlier and they were looking for kids to I guess work in the military

industrial complex and the gifted and talented programs and early scores on the

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