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Hey, welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm in Dravis Gontas. This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true,

what's left to discover, and why it matters. This is the third episode in a four or maybe even five-part series on artificial intelligence

and what it means for our future.

We started out with a conversation with Cade Mets, tracking the history of the latest developments

in AI and the people behind it. Then we spoke to Jeff Hawkins, who invented the Pompilot,

and also a new theory of the brain called a thousand brains, looking into how the architecture

of the neocortex supports neural networks and mental models, and how that theory can be used

to develop even more effective artificial intelligence.

This week, we're going to talk to Jamie Marisotis about what humans should be doing in the age

of smart machines.

What kind of work is going to be

left for us? Or more importantly, what kind of work do we want to do, since after all, we are the

ones who are creating the machines? Here's most recent book is called Human Work in the Age of

Smart Machines. Jimmy Marisotis is a CEO of Lumina Foundation, which is an independent private foundation committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all.

That's going to be important as we have to re-educate the workforce as machine learning takes over many of the jobs that we hold dear.

But is that really true? Or are machines just going to do the things that we actually

don't really want to do? And what does that leave us time to do instead?

Jamie Marisotis, welcome to inquiring minds. Thanks very much. Great to be with you.

The pandemic, of course, has changed so much about how we work. And it's also given us an

opportunity to think about what's important and what we want to do. And I don't think I'm

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