Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part VI: Something Like Us

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Can a machine think like a human? Can it be conscious? For decades the answer was clear: nope. But artificial intelligence today is challenging that notion. In our last Good Bot, Bad Bot episode, Endless Thread goes to Google, the frontier of AI, to see just how close the field is to creating bots with minds of their own.

****** Credits: This episode was written and produced by Dean Russell. Mixing and sound design by Emily Jankowski and Paul Vaitkus. Ben Brock Johnson and Nora Saks are the co-hosts.

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0:31.2	Eight years ago, Huma Shah met someone she'll never forget.
0:36.4	She says he came out of nowhere.
0:38.2	This kid named Eugene.
0:39.8	Yeah, he's a typical 11-year-old, short but neat hair and he's wearing glasses and he's
0:46.8	wearing like a t-shirt and so he looks like a normal 11-year-old boy.
0:53.0	Eugene Guzman was actually 13 at the time and for the record he was not a normal kid.
0:59.6	Huma and her colleagues had invited him to take part in this international competition
1:05.2	she was running.
1:06.2	A test of sorts.
1:08.4	It took place at the Royal Society in London, a Swanky Clubhouse for scientists.
1:14.1	When you're inside, it's gorgeous, the walls are adorned with fellows of the Royal Society
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1:24.4	At 13, Eugene would have been one of the youngest competitors.
1:28.6	He said he was from Odessa, Ukraine.
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