018 - What Makes Us Human with Iain S. Thomas

[Originally published 04/21/2023]
In this episode, I share a conversation with world-renowned poet and author, Iain S. Thomas, about his recently released book, What Makes Us Human: An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions, co-authored with technologist and philosopher, Jasmine Wang, and GPT-3 (before it was released to the public).
Follow Iain on IG @realiainsthomas!
Purchase the book here!
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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode:
• How they went about training GPT-3 to generate the profound questions and answers contained in this book
• Being on the brink of a new creative revolution on par with the invention of language
• Former Google engineer, Blake Lemoine's, claims that Google has already developed a sentient AI (AGI)
• How we can learn to love each other when things seem so bleak and so complex, contentious, and polarized
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Other things mentioned/to check out:
• A video of Iain and Jasmine explaining how they wrote the book with GPT-3
• Katie Teague's documentary about the ancient wisdom and healing practices around grief
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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!
Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.