Episode 49: Deus Ex AI - Will We Worship Artificial Intelligence?

In which the 3-Ds and a V debate whether we'll end up worshiping Artificial Intelligence. Drew says some people already do...and there's speculation that's what Ezekiel was doing on his prophetic field trip to the desert outside Babylon's 'burbs. Beyond worship, might AI attain actual godhood down the road? After all, we mere humans are getting pretty close to creating life in the lab; AI may well leapfrog us on that. But what would Humans 2.0 look like? And will the latest human model come with a warranty?

To keep the human existential crisis going, in our game, we speculate which of today's AI systems is most likely to attain godhood. They may need a chip off the ol' quantum block to pull it off.

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Credits:

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Special Guest Vicar: Keith Monroe

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"The difference between us and a computer is that the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second."

- Douglas Adams