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The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel)

Dwarkesh Patel interviewed the most influential thinkers and leaders in the world of AI and chronicled the history of AI up to now in his book, The Scaling Era. Listen as he talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the book, the dangers and potential of AI, and the role scale plays in AI progress. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the art of podcasting.

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  Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)

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  Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)

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  The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with …

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  The Status Game (with Will Storr)

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  The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)

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  Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)

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  Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)

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  A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)

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  Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

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  The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)

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  The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)

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  Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)

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  Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

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  How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)

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  How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)

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  Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)