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The book explores the risks and rewards of the rapid advancement of AI and biotech, highlighting the potential breakthroughs and unforeseen consequences of these technologies.
Actually, in the book I talk about one of my very, very dear friends is this wonderful Spanish, now living in the United States, National Geographic explorer named Enrique Sala.
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Episode: 1015: Jamie Metzl | AI Solutions for Hunger, Healt...
The book explores the risks and rewards of the rapid advancement of AI and biotech, highlighting the potential breakthroughs and unforeseen consequences of these technologies.
Actually, in the book I talk about one of my very, very dear friends is this wonderful Spanish, now living in the United States, National Geographic explorer named Enrique Sala.
I went back and forth with my editor because I kept adding something that was in the original manuscript. It kept getting edited out and I talked to him about a svelte Spaniard with an Inigo Montoya ponytail. And so your listeners may know from The Princess Bride, you know that little swordsman's, I'm Inigo Montoya, you killed my father.
So they kept taking it. I said, no, no, it's gotta be there. So Enrique, he's one of the leaders. What started out as an effort to try to turn 30% of the oceans into protected nature preserves where people can't do industrial activities, particularly fish. And they did these calculations that if you protected those 30%, the actual availability of fish in the other 70% would go up. Like you would get more fish by not fishing in these protected areas.
I write about this in the book in the 19th century, he was his little workshop in Germany and he was kind of imagining the car.
I write about this in the book
Episode: 1014: Jamie Metzl | AI Solutions for Hunger, Healt...
Jamie Metzl, the author of "Superconvergence," explores the risks and rewards of the rapidly accelerating technological progress, specifically in the fields of AI, biotech, and genetics. He argues that the next 14 years will see more progress than the last century, and the following seven years will bring another century's worth of advancements.
According to Superconvergence author Jamie Metzl, the scientific advancements made in the next 14 years will outdo those of the last century, followed by another century's worth in only seven years.
And that's why, again, it's the central point of the book. If we think this is a conversation about technology, we're going to get lost. This is a conversation about humanity, and it's a conversation about values.
And so that's what we are- people think this is about technology. We are unleashing one of the greatest powers in the known universe, and that is human imagination.
It's why the first chapter of the book, it's called The Nature of Change.
I write about this in the book in the context of my chapter on health care.