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Uncanny Valley | WIRED

Seriously, What Is 'Superintelligence'?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED

WIRED

Technology

4.1572 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Meta just announced a major move in its AI efforts – investing in Scale AI and building a superintelligence AI research lab. While Meta has been trying to keep up with big names in the AI race, such as Open AI, Anthropic and Google, the company's new strategy includes dropping some serious cash to acquire talent and invest in Scale AI. Today on the show, we dive into the deal between Meta and Scale AI, including what Meta aims to get out of investment, and we ask the question we are all wondering: What is superhuman intelligence, anyway? 

You can follow our hosts on Bluesky—Michael Calore is @snackfight, Lauren Goode is @laurengoode, and Katie Drummond is @katie-drummond.


Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from Alexis Ohanian's newest tech venture to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests.

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0:00.0

How is everybody doing this week?

0:02.0

Well, I'm back.

0:03.2

Yay.

0:03.6

And I'm so happy to be here.

0:05.3

I ate so much butter in France last week.

0:08.8

The first couple nights I had to myself.

0:11.1

And so what would a normal person do in Paris?

0:13.6

Maybe they'd go out and sit at the bar and have dinner alone.

0:16.4

Maybe they'd meet up with a friend.

0:18.9

I ate butter and bread alone in my hotel room. And let me tell you,

0:26.0

if you're listening out there and you are a mom and you have a young kid or young kids,

0:31.3

if you're married, if you struggle with having a spouse and a child and maybe some pets and a busy job, there is no better

0:41.8

experience than eating French butter and bread alone in a hotel room.

0:47.1

Wow.

0:48.0

Uncanny Valley brought to you by the dairy lobby.

0:51.0

By the French dairy lobby.

0:52.6

I feel incredible.

0:54.0

How are you guys? I'm okay. I got bangs.

0:57.7

You did. Yeah, so most of our listeners can't see it unless you watch our new video promos online,

1:04.5

but I got bangs. And, you know, there's often a correlation between things going on in the

1:10.5

world and women cutting their bangs. That's all I'm going to say about that. So, but otherwise, I'm great. I'm great. Rate the bangs. Go online. Thumbs up, thumbs down. Five out of five. Thank you. Katie, really, you were my inspiration here. Oh, no. That's too kind. But I do love a bang and hate a forehead.

1:29.9

Well, have I got a haircut for you? Well, Mike, how are you doing? Sorry. Sorry about that, Mike.

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