Can a computer replicate a visual system? Yes, can it replicate processing power? Of course.

It's clear computers are better at us at chess. Will a computer ever create a game like chess?

It will get to be an approximation and the question is is the

approximation at some level equal to the human experience of consciousness. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Open the pod bay doors now.

Hey Brian, it's really great to be here with you.

Always great to be with you and it's just lucky to have you as a colleague and friend here in San Diego.

Yeah, yeah, it's been great.

So hey, everybody's talking about artificial intelligence and some people are talking

about it with great excitement and some people are talking about it with a lot of fear and everywhere in between.

How do you see the role of artificial intelligence, especially in shaping or even redefining the epistemological foundations of science like

let's say in fields like astronomy where data is huge and abundant but often needs

you know sophisticated interpretation.

It's so hard for me to decouple the just outright joy and fun and pleasure that I'm

getting from AI explorations and experiments, you know, from the legitimate concerns that I think, you know, people need to be cognizant about.

It's, it's kind of a threat and an incredible toy and an opportunity for so many of us,

especially those of us with either children or those of us with you know educational

children that we get to teach I really loved it it's been kind of almost like

getting to redo the internet boom of the 90s for those of us that are old enough to remember it

but didn't really participate in kind of the shaping of it I was too maybe young at the time

but but nevertheless this is kind of a new opportunity when we have an opportunity to shape the future of education, of research, of scientific, searching for answers and truth, but also redefining what it means for us to be human beings.

And fundamentally I think people lose track of the fact that because of our my colleagues are so otherworldly

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