Futurology

The Berggruen Institute exists to argue about what comes next, and Futurology is where it does that out loud, with guests who rarely share a field. Elif Shafak on the oral storytelling a language model's training data leaves out. Kevin Kelly on why a singularity is invisible to the people living through one. David Chalmers refusing the easy dismissal of machine consciousness. Blaise Agüera y Arcas telling Carlo Rovelli that the merger with machines already happened. Terence Tao on proof as what keeps an answer that sounds right tied to one that is right. The pace is a seminar's, not a news show's.

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