Science Goes To The Movies: ‘Transcendence’
26:41 minutes
In Wally Pfister’s new thriller Transcendence, Johnny Depp plays an AI researcher whose consciousness is uploaded to the Internet…with disastrous consequences. This week in “Science Goes to the Movies,” our scientist-film critics Stuart Russell and Christof Koch explain what it would take to “upload” a mind, and what really worries them about strong AI.
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Segment Guests
Stuart Russell
Dr. Stuart Russell is a professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California.
Christof Koch
Christof Koch is chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington.
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