Mo Gawdat: “Life is a Video Game!” | The Shocking Case for Intelligent Design (#389)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Will AI destroy humanity? Can we bring the dead back to life? And is there any convincing evidence for intelligent design? Joining me today to explore these fascinating topics is none other than Mo Gawdat! Mo is the founder of the non-profit organization One Billion Happy and host of the #1 mental health podcast Slo Mo. He is the author of the bestselling books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart and used to work as chief business officer at Google X. Mo has profoundly shaped my perspectives on artificial intelligence, fatherhood, happiness, and the biggest questions in the universe. I’m sure he will have the same impact on you, so without further ado, let’s jump right into the episode! Tune in. Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:31 Judging two books by their covers 00:07:34 Can a computer be happy? 00:17:08 Mo’s timeline for AGI 00:24:40 What it was like to work for X, Google's top-secret moonshot factory 00:31:37 WIll programmers forget how to code? 00:35:25 Elon Musk’s new AI 00:39:46 Our generations y2k problem 00:48:35 The Keating test 00:55:05 Bringing the dead back to life 01:06:36 The case for intelligent design 01:16:51 How to be happy during challenging times 01:29:36 The coolest thing ever invented 01:37:41 Outro — Additional resources: ➡️ Check out Mo Gawdat: 💻 Website: https://www.mogawdat.com/ ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgawdat 👉 Want to stay fully informed on breaking news, compare coverage, and avoid media bias? Go to https://www.ground.news/drbrian and sign up through my link for 30% OFF unlimited access! 📰 📢 Ownership of your health starts with AG1. Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 and 5 FREE AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase 👉 https://drinkag1.com/impossible ➡️ Follow me on your favorite platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're featuring somebody who has profoundly impacted me and shaped the way I think about
0:04.7	AI, fatherhood, and the biggest questions in the universe. Meet Mo Gadot, former Google X, Chief Business Officer, founder of 1 billion Happy,
0:15.0	host of the Slomo Podcast and best-selling author who warned the world about the potential threats of AI years
0:22.2	before the current conversation started.
0:24.7	His expertise ranges from AI to engineering happiness in the video game we call life.
0:29.6	Today he's here to share some of the expertise with us So without further ado, let's jump right into the episode,
0:35.0	my friend Mogadot.
0:36.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:47.0	Open the pod bay doors now.
0:50.0	Welcome everybody to what will undoubtedly be one of your favorite episodes of all time
0:57.0	on the Into the Impossible Podcast a man that needs no introduction but I'm going to give
1:01.1	him one anyway it's Moguat who's influenced me in many many ways both how I think about AI artificial intelligence
1:08.2	But more importantly how I think about fatherhood happiness and the biggest picture of questions in all of the universe.
1:16.7	And so Mo, I want to thank you so much for taking so much of your time late at night over
1:20.5	there in Dubai.
1:22.3	Thank you so much for joining us
1:23.4	in the Into the Impossible Podcast.
1:24.7	It's such an honor, Brian.
1:26.4	Thank you for having me and thanks for waiting for me
1:29.6	until my travel eased up a little bit.
1:31.8	I think a good problem for my undergraduates which would be to compute. my year, which is wild. We have many connections. We are connected this time, I think, through our mutual friend Peter D. Amanda's, who is an incredible intellect and Peter is coming up.
1:53.1	We have him recorded from an interview we did in October.
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