Podcast #479: God-like: A 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence, with Kester Brewin

Drunk Ex-Pastors

Christian Kingery

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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In this episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors we sit down with Kester Brewin and chat about his latest book, God-like: A 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence in Myths, Machines, Monsters. We discuss the nature of AI, why it should be considered theologically, and what (if anything) we can do to maintain some control over it. We debrief at the end before sharing biebers involving messaging platforms and deodorant.

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0:00.0	Happy Sunday.
0:02.5	Happy Lord's Day.
0:04.6	It's the Sabbath.
0:05.7	It's the day of rest.
0:07.1	Yeah.
0:08.4	Yeah, which means this is coming out today, later today, in about 10 hours.
0:15.3	Right?
0:15.5	I mean, you're like up to the minute with DXP, you know?
0:19.1	That's right.
0:19.9	That's right.
0:21.2	How's everything going?
0:22.6	Good.
0:23.1	I was in Temecula last night, or Mirietta, for Amanda's 50th birthday.
0:29.1	Oh, my God.
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:30.7	I explained to her, though, that it's like, you've been old since you were 27, though.
0:38.9	Like, you know, I, if, if, if, if a man were turning 50, he, he's already been old for 10 years.
0:44.2	So, you know, I tried to explain that to her to make her feel better.
0:46.9	I don't think it worked.
0:48.3	I think it was a valiant effort.
0:49.7	I think, um, I met Amanda when I was 22.
0:55.9	Yeah, 22 for sure.
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