Will AI make humans better?

And what does this have to do with linguistics or the movie arrival or self-driving cars?

Or debate and video games and elections and chess and the ancient game of Go.

Welcome to Intercosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford.

And in these episodes, we seek to understand why and how our lives look the way they do.

In today's episode is about whether AI will make us better humans.

This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is an I-Heart podcast. I often find myself totally flabbergasted by the change that I've seen just in my lifetime.

When I was a really little kid, personal computers didn't exist, and then we passed through a door and suddenly they did.

And I saved up my money and I got a common or VIC-20 computer, which was something my parents had

never seen the likes of. And I felt like I was living the largest change in human history because

for the first time, everybody could have a machine that would do all

kinds of things. But that turned out not to even be the biggest change, because the next stop

was even bigger. And that was the idea that some people had to build a system where we could

keep information on computers and make computers talk to each other,

such that if the Soviets bombed America, the important information wouldn't just be stored on one computer,

and messages could follow different routes on the network.

And that way you had a very robust system for keeping information.

That was, of course, ARPANet, which became the internet. And not long after, the idea was

introduced of a way that everyone could use this giant network, not just with text, but with

graphics. And that was the birth of the World Wide Web.

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