“We’d like to get it as far and wide as possible.”So far, What Makes Us Human has released two episodes. Hoffman explained there is a growing debate surrounding artificial intelligence, which has raised concerns that robots will make human labor obsolete. He said that people often ask him if, in the future, robots will take meaning away from human life and act as singular, self-sufficient entities. “Instead we envision a world in which humans and machines work together.”The two podcasts explore what the future of mankind might look like, reframing prominent theories about what constitutes being human. “We have to be open-minded when it comes to understanding what it means to be human, because there are a lot of unanswered questions,” Levine said.

Source: Daily Sun October 05, 2017 03:11 UTC