Every book Shane Legg recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Shane Legg

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   The age of spiritual machines

   Ray Kurzweil · Discussed · 1 episode

   The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil is a speculative non-fiction work predicting the exponential trajectory of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the eventual convergence of human and machine intelligence.

   Discussed

   “I first formed those beliefs around 2001 after reading Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines. There were two really important points in his book that I came to believe as true.”

   Dwarkesh Podcast Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new ar… 2023-10-26 Listen at 34:43

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