Annie Jacobsen

He saw the military industrial complex before Eisenhower spoke of it.

Fascinating.

The goal is the only target.

What does Dr. Manhattan mean?

I'm going to have to take that question and your thoughts back to a guy at Los Alamos who I visited about maybe eight years ago who was building an electronic brain at Los Alamos for DARPA.

Using the old Roadrunner supercomputer that used to have the nuclear codes on it, by the way.

And I was asking this question about sentience and AI.

And he told me – his name was Dr. Garrett Kenyon.

And he told me that we were a ways away from –

AI really being able to have sentience.

And he gave me an analogy I'll share with you because I think about this and it's really interesting.

Keep in mind this was seven or eight years ago.

He said to me, okay, so my iPhone machine learning, it has facial recognition, which is shocking.

You can tip it up and it can see you.

It can even be dark.

And he said, so that's computer recognizing me based on electronic information that it knows.

He said, now take your iPhone to a football field and put the iPhone across the football field.

Put me in a cap and a hoodie and have the iPhone try to recognize me.

Even if I'm walking, it can't.

And then he said, take my teenage daughter and put her across the football field, me with the baseball cap and the hoodie.