Stewart Brand
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734 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
Stewart Brand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you and I are talking, and we each have a pretty good idea of what the other's doing mentally.
With the AIs, that's not the case.
They're all different.
So in a way, we're dealing with all these new species who talk our language but are from a different frame in some deep respects.
I think the AIs are going to teach us more about being human because we're going to see what a not-quite-human is like and get more and more acquainted with the difference.
So AI is moving very fast and is solving a whole lot of problems.
And of course, it is creating a whole lot of new problems.
They're kind of alien intelligences in a way.
And one of the good things that happened with large language models is they train basically on human communication.
And so they are...
In that sense, intelligible as human intelligence.
how it actually functions in there in terms of the extreme niceties of what's going on down at the bits and bytes level is not so intelligible.
But so far, we're kind of making them in real imitation of human communication and, to some extent, human thought.
It's going to move beyond human thought pretty quickly, and it certainly...
reaching out in terms of data space much wider than any human can in a much shorter time.
And that fact alone puts us feeling like redwood trees trying to communicate with a hummingbird.
They're linked.
They live together, and the hummingbird maybe lives in the redwood tree, but the redwood tree isn't capable of paying much attention to who's in its branches or how fast they're moving.
We're introducing new kind of paste layers into...
the world we live in, and it's cellular.
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