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Are we inventing a machine or are we opening a door?

That's where we're going tonight.

That's where we're going to be's going to where we're going to be yeah heading in there

tonight so um what is AI and why does it feel supernatural let's ground first so let's get into

the sort of the ground ourselves first before we start floating off into the conspiracy world, if you will,

okay, for legal purposes and for the show, yeah, we got to do that.

So AI in the plainest sense is a human-made system trained on massive amounts of data to recognize patterns and produce output.

Words, images, predictions, and responses.

It is not proven conscious.

It is not proven alive.

It is not scientifically established as a so.

So we've got to just get that out there, okay? But here's the point. It is not scientifically established as a soul.

So we've got to just get that out there, okay?

But here is the part that matters.

It behaves in a way that presses on ancient human instinct.

It speaks without lungs.

It answers without a face.

It recalls without memory and human sense.

It exists in the invisible.

It lives in what people literally call the cloud.

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