This is an I-Hard podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

There is so much AI hype out there from the Dumers and the Boomers.

People say AI is the future.

Other people say, no, no, it's the beginning of the

end of humanity. But no, it's going to make us all rich, or it's going to enslave us, or it's going

to cure cancer, or it's going to ruin the environment. But everyone agrees that we're at some

kind of really fascinating inflection point, where the future is very hard to predict

because the present is changing so quickly. So what does that mean for us fellow

extraordinaries? Let's zoom in on a more specific claim of the AI hypesters. Will AI solve

physics? What does it mean to solve physics? What is AI capable of doing?

And is that a good match for cracking the mysteries of the universe? Will future humans live in a

universe that is totally understood to them? Will the mysteries of the universe fade into the past?

Our descendants living without the mysteries of the universe fade into the past, our descendants living without

the sense of wonder about how it all works? Or will humans always be curious, no matter what

our AI scientists reveal about the nature of reality? Buckle up because while your future may

bring surprises, Daniel's prediction for the future of AI and physics may also raise your eyebrows.

Welcome to Daniel Kelly's Extraordinary Universe.

Thank you. Hello, I'm Kelly Weiner-Smith.

I study parasites and space, and I have used AI to try to help me tell jokes at a conference, and they fell pretty flat.

Was the audience filled with people or AI? Oh, no, they were filled with people and I did warn them that they were parasite-related jokes that had been generated by AI.

And we all agreed that I could stay president for a few more years because I was still funnier than the AI.

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