“And let me point out,” Ira pursued, eager to clinch the sale, “that the Model I is so life-like that, in normal operation, it is almost completely silent. Only a faint throbbing—like that of a human heart—is noticeable.”
The woman cocked her head to a side. “I don’t hear anything,” she said.
Ira smiled triumphantly. “Of course, you don’t! Come here,” he said. “Put your ear to my chest and you’ll just be able to make it out.”
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and meditation advocate. Lex Fridman is a Russian-American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher. Among other things, both are popular podcasters and prognosticators.
Fridman: You talked negatively about robots, as you often do—you’ll probably die first when they take over—
Harris: I’m looking forward to a certain kind of robots! If we can get this right, this would be amazing.