Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2026-07-15

Books mentioned on AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware

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Jürgen Schmidhuber is an AI pioneer and professor whom The Guardian has called "the father of AI." Schmidhuber joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether current AI techniques can actually reach AGI.

Jürgen Schmidhuber discussed Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye.

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   Simulacron-3

   Daniel F. Galouye · at 48:26

   Discussed

   “And I believe the first story, science fiction story of that kind was published in 1964 where someone was able to upload his mind in um in a in a computer um back then with rotating tapes and everything. Uh that was what was the name icon simulacron 3.”

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