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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Brian Christian – How to Live with Computers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.140]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Colossus

Technology, Business, Investing

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Brian Christian, the author of two of my favorite recent books: Algorithms to Live By and The Most Human Human. Our conversation covers the present and future of how humans interact with and use computers. Brian’s thoughts on the nature of intelligence and what it means to be human continue to make me think about what works, and life, will be like in the future. I hope you enjoy our conversation. For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Show Notes 1:11 - (First Question) – Summarizing his collection of interests that led to his three books 2:59 – Biggest questions in AI 3:43 – Defining AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its history             5:18 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence 7:54 – The idea of the most human human 9:59 – Tactics that have changed the most in learning to be the most human human 16:10 –Tests for measuring AGI and updates made to them 20:12 – Concerns for once we have AGI 26:06 – Self-awareness as a threshold for AGI 31:58 – Skeptics’ take on AGI 37:14 – Advice for people building careers and how AGI will impact work 38:16 – Explore/Exploit trade-off 44:57 – How to explore/exploit applies to business concepts 49:16 – Impacts of AGI on the economy 52:40 – Highlights from his second book 57:39 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Brian   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome everyone, I'm Patrick O'Shaughnessy and this is Invest Like The Best.

0:08.6

This show is an open-ended exploration of markets, ideas, methods, stories, and of strategies

0:13.9

that will help you better invest both your time and your money.

0:17.2

You can learn more and stay up to date at InvestorFieldGuide.com.

0:24.6

Patrick O'Shaughnessy is the CEO of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.

0:28.5

All opinions expressed by Patrick and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do

0:32.9

not reflect the opinion of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.

0:36.3

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis

0:40.6

for investment decisions.

0:42.4

Clients of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management may maintain positions and the securities discussed

0:46.2

in this podcast.

0:49.7

My guess this week is Brian Christian, the author of two of my favorite recent books,

0:53.3

Algorithms to Live By and the Most Human Human.

0:56.0

Our conversation covers the present and future of how humans interact with and use computers.

1:00.7

Brian's thoughts on the nature of intelligence and what it means to be human continue to

1:04.0

make me think about what work and life will be like in the future.

1:07.2

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

1:10.9

I'd love to begin with some framing from you around just what your general interest is

1:15.4

that unites the first two books that you've written and published and the third that you're

1:19.1

working on now.

1:20.6

How would you sum up your set of interests?

1:22.6

I think I have this very on paper a collectic academic background where in college I studied

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