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Eve Poole - What is distinctive about being human?

Eve Poole - What is distinctive about being human?

Update: 2024-06-06

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As AI evolves and replaces different human functions, it raises questions about what it is that makes us distinctively human, and whether that distinctiveness can and should be programmed into AI. This is a question that Dr Eve Poole has thought and written a great deal about. Her recent book Robot Souls takes this question seriously, and explores possible trajectories for our future with AI. In this episode we discuss the necessity of human 'junk code', the increasing importance of the humanities in education, and whether we should trying a bit harder to make AI beings in our own image.

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Eve Poole - What is distinctive about being human?

Eve Poole - What is distinctive about being human?

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