On evolution, artificial intelligence, predicting the future, and the possibility that we’ve misunderstood what it means to be advanced.

I’m in Sicily at the moment, and the other night a few of us were sitting around drinking wine when someone suggested we watch The Godfather.

A wonderful suggestion. We’re only an hour from Corleone, and hardly anyone had seen it. My friend’s response was essentially: “Ehh, It’s three hours long.”

I don’t think humans are the only interesting participants anymore. For a long time, I think we’ve unconsciously assumed that we are.
Since the Industrial Revolution, we have built machines to calculate faster, remember more, and process more information. Then we built computers, the internet, and now, artificial intelligence. For the first time, we’ve created something that can talk back.