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reinforcements through donor box. We're joined today by scientists and entrepreneur whose name I'm

going to butcher. Yobst Langreb has been in AI since 1998. He's a guest professor and head of

technology of a biotech company. He's also co-author of this fantastic book, which I've purchased and which I'm reading called Why Machines Will Never Rule the World.

Artificial Intelligence Without Fear, welcome to the podcast, Jopes.

Hi, Avoyah, thanks for inviting me.

I'm pleased to be with you.

You're doing fantastic work, and again, your book is fantastic and it deals with a lot of the hype that we're being faced with.

And before getting into that, anything you want to add about yourself and the arc of your work?

Well, I'm my scientific focus, the theory of AI, and my practical focus is developing AI systems

now in the context of the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.

That's what I'm doing for living.

Okay, so we are talking to an expert here, and you talk about artificial general intelligence, AGI, and how for mathematical reasons, it's impossible some of these things that the Elon Musks of the world and others are telling us this

idea of machines ruling the world, becoming sentient, right? So tell us about, you know, the thesis

you've been working on and why we can relax a bit, why Skynet will not become self-aware, as I like to

say. Yes. Soaware, as I like to say.

Yes.

So basically, when I started working in AI, I just saw it as a form of applied mathematics,

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