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The untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power, revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here and where we go next.
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00:03Tonight we're going to enter a world where some of the oldest visions that have stirred man's imagination blend into
00:10the latest achievements of his science. Can you define for us what is artificial intelligence?
00:20I invented the term artificial intelligence, the long-term goal of achieving human level intelligence. We were trying to get
00:28money for a summer study. Artificial intelligence is just a marketing term.
00:37AI has its roots in the beginnings of science and the beginnings of empire. AI has its roots in eugenics.
00:45Standard deviation, correlation, the logic model, logistic regression emerged specifically out of eugenics.
00:53We started to define human cognition in machinic terms.
00:58A man's brain might work as a machine.
01:01Our descendant will not be the child of the loin, but the child of the brains, the thing we call
01:05the computer.
01:06There is this fixation with women's ability to give birth.
01:10We have machines that actually think.
01:13People in the tech world are borrowing the language of intelligence research, an offshoot of eugenics.
01:19How would you define AGI?
01:20AGI is basically the equivalent of a median human.
01:28Silicon Valley has always liked to pretend that it doesn't have a history. Some of that history ain't so savory.
01:34We're back to a little bit of hype.
01:36The tech bro mindset.
01:39At it for this rise of what some people call techno-fascism.
01:44Big tech don't want to be accountable.
01:47You showed up here today because we're caught.
01:51An executive from XAI ducking out a side door.
01:54They're just bad boys misbehaving.
01:56This is definitely a high IQ group.
02:02That's what I call digital colonialism.
02:05It tears the veil of what makes you to be human.
02:11Bizarre values and religious beliefs.
02:14Crazy high IQ tools.
02:15Trying to build God in the most embarrassing way possible.
02:18Expression of male power.
02:20If the computer can do it.
02:21And the robots can do everything better than you.
02:25Does your life have meaning?
02:27Things in the world.
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