Godfather Part II: Is AI Alive?

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In Part I, we asked how AI (and your brain) actually work. In Part II, we ask if we survive what we’ve built. 🔔 Subscribe so you don’t miss Part III of @smartgirldumbquestions Godfather (of AI) series with Geoffrey Hinton and to catch our episodes with Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson and more: https://www.youtube.com/@SmartGirlDumbQuestions?sub_confirmation=1 We all pretend to have a plan for the AI future but Turing Prize Winner and Nobel Laureate Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is honest that we don’t. The “Godfather of AI” returns to talk about what happens next: Is AI alive like a person, a weed, or something we don’t even have language for? What’s the real probability that AI takes over, and why does Hinton put “p(doom)” somewhere around 10–20% instead of 0? He walks Nayeema through three big risks, the foggy things we can’t really know and why that makes both techno-utopianism and total doomism dishonest. He and Nayeema talk about extinction vs. becoming AI’s “pets” to some kind of machine mama. They also get personal: Should you have kids in an AI age or wait for the cyborg future? Are young people trading real relationships for AI boyfriends and girlfriends? Is it dangerous that teens already fall in love with chatbots — or could caring for “virtual babies” and companion AIs actually make us more empathetic? And in a very nerdy twist, Hinton reveals the one question he still desperately wants answered about the human brain — the thing his life’s work hasn’t solved yet. If you have Qs for Part 3 - What Should We Do and How Should We Govern an AI World? call 1-855-MYDUMBQ or post a video on YouTube, IG or TikTok tagging @smartgirldumbquestions and we’ll select some to ask the Godfather! HIT FOLLOW OR SUBSCRIBE to get more Smart Girl Dumb Questions as we ask the smartest humans on Earth the dumbest questions we can think of — about AI, love, money, politics and everything else we pretend to understand. And please share this with your mom, your best friend, or the “AI expert” in your life who might not get it at all. 🤳 Follow Smart Girl Dumb Questions on Instagram and TikTok https://www.instagram.com/smartgirldumbquestions/ https://www.tiktok.com/@smartgirldumbquestions 📱 Follow Nayeema on Instagram and X https://www.instagram.com/nayeemaraza https://x.com/nayeema ❓ Want to be in a future episode? Send your dumb questions to [email protected] 🎙️ About Smart Girl Dumb Questions & Nayeema Journalist and filmmaker Nayeema Raza (The New York Times, Vox, Tribeca Film Festival) asks the smartest humans the dumbest questions she can think of. Past guests include Mark Cuban, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye, Science Guy — because in a world with so much to learn, being a know-it-all is the only dumb thing she could be. #GeoffreyHinton #AI #artificialintelligence #AGI #neuralnetworks #SmartGirlDumbQuestions