The Infinity Machine and the Faraway Savior
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The Infinity Machine and the Faraway Savior
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Three minds sit down for a ninety-minute conversation that never happened. Demis Hassabis, the scientist building the machine. Doudou, the reclusive novelist who insists no machine can save a soul unwilling to save itself. And Sebastian Mallaby, the historian who spent four years asking what culture hides inside our technology. One question on the table: does AI have a "cultural nature" — is it a mirror, or a savior? And the larger one underneath it: in the age of AI, what does a human being actually stand on?
In this episode:
- Why Silicon Valley's two loudest stories — utopia and apocalypse — might secretly be the same story.
- What AlphaGo's "move 37" revealed that a mirror never could.
- The moment the novelist tells the Nobel laureate: you can build a machine that cracks every structure in nature — but you can't build a person who knows how to die.
- Why "making up your own mind" is about to become the rarest, most expensive skill on Earth.
- What's left for us when the machine can write the poem, prove the theorem, and love you back — without ever leaving.
"The savior is faraway — because the savior doesn't exist. AI won't save anyone. The only thing that can save a person is that person waking up."
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