Annie Jacobsen

I haven't read Ray Kurzweil's new book yet, but I wonder if I might disagree with that, only that I'm thinking that everything you're saying would be true once singularity, or for laymen, once AI, once a machine figures out how to think for itself, makes that leap, which is almost like an unknowable...

presently incomprehensible to me jump where it can think for itself.

It's almost so hard to even comprehend what that is.

But based on our languages.

So... For now.

For now, right.

But that's what I'm saying is where they can suddenly... Where they experience that moment in time that you and I were talking about earlier where man went from pointing...

to suddenly using a symbol and realizing in his own brain, wait a minute, I can make this symbol represent

a sound, and then I will put it together to make it a language that only my tribe can understand.

That to me is like a giant leap in humanness that I think about often and can't really, I can't understand how that happened other than, wow, how did that happen?

That seems to me that that has to happen to the AI before it can really think.

Otherwise, it's just basing its thinking on recorded history.

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.