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Why are tech leaders so obsessed with AI? Well, Kara Swisher has “a weird theory” it might be because it makes them feel like they’re able to give birth.
This video is an excerpt of a much wider conversation involving renowned AI experts Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Shannon Vallor, moderated by Swisher. Watch the full thing here: youtu.be/ExHW3bK0r7A?si=tkyd6NkvFErfbRX2
Noema Magazine brought the three together to discuss whether AI makes us more or less human as part of its fifth anniversary celebration. The debate delved into the philosophical ramifications of AI as an emerging transformative technology, as well as our broader understanding of intelligence, with a few zingers thrown in for good measure.
Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh.
Swisher is a New York Times bestselling author, host of the “On with Kara Swisher” & “Pivot” podcasts and editor-at-large at New York Magazine.
Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow, CTO of Technology & Society and founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google.
Noema is a longform journalism magazine exploring fresh ideas to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
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Why are tech leaders so obsessed with AI? Well, Kara Swisher has “a weird theory” it might be because it makes them feel like they’re able to give birth.
This video is an excerpt of a much wider conversation involving renowned AI experts Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Shannon Vallor, moderated by Swisher. Watch the full thing here: youtu.be/ExHW3bK0r7A?si=tkyd6NkvFErfbRX2
Noema Magazine brought the three together to discuss whether AI makes us more or less human as part of its fifth anniversary celebration. The debate delved into the philosophical ramifications of AI as an emerging transformative technology, as well as our broader understanding of intelligence, with a few zingers thrown in for good measure.
Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh.
Swisher is a New York Times bestselling author, host of the “On with Kara Swisher” & “Pivot” podcasts and editor-at-large at New York Magazine.
Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow, CTO of Technology & Society and founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google.
Noema is a longform journalism magazine exploring fresh ideas to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Follow Noema:
YouTube: youtube.com/c/noemamagazine
TikTok: tiktok.com/@noemamag
Instagram: instagram.com/noemamag
Facebook: facebook.com/noemamag
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Threads: threads.net/@noemamag
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noemamag.com
#ai #aicreators #aidevelopment
