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Is Humanity Smart Enough to Survive Itself? | Jeanette Winterson | TED

With quick wit and sharp insight, writer Jeanette Winterson lays out a vision of the future where human and machine intelligence meld — forming what she calls “alternative intelligence” — and takes a philosophical look at our species, asking: Are we smart enough to survive how smart we are? (Followed by a Q&A with TED’s…

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With quick wit and sharp insight, writer Jeanette Winterson lays out a vision of the future where human and machine intelligence meld — forming what she calls “alternative intelligence” — and takes a philosophical look at our species, asking: Are we smart enough to survive how smart we are? (Followed by a Q&A with TED’s head of curation Helen Walters)

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34 Comments

  1. beef yogurt

    September 1, 2022 at 11:34 pm

    bitcoin is proof. necessity is the mother of invention. fiat is a rigged game and the people have had enough

  2. WhiteSpatula

    September 2, 2022 at 2:03 am

    I loved your analogy about binary attributes. I like to say: The boundary between any binary participants is always a spectrum when you zoom in far enough. Or in other words, binary appearance correlates directly with observational distance.
    Regarding the Christian expectation that we cannot learn to cooperate peaceably upon our planet until a certain magical jew falls from the sky to rescue us all from each other, hence myriad justifications for abetting an apocalypse even to the point of hindering those who dare to try and thwart it: I think it’s worth supposing that the scriptures are NOT in fact inciting good people to force atrocious prophecies into fruition as a means of lighting a fire under the Messiah. I always thought the Bible made it unambiguously clear: He’ll get here when he gets here. All the same, I think it equally unambiguous: If anyone would forgive us for keeping a few nasty ancient prophecies from coming to fruition, it would be the Messiah himself. I dare suppose he might even be proud of us instead!

  3. 00MrPanda00

    September 2, 2022 at 2:38 am

    No, I have seen unexplainable habits of people. Quite baffling, disturbing, and illogical.

  4. troy milton

    September 2, 2022 at 3:53 am

    the 4th dimension is the apocalypse that comes at the expense of the planet and our physical bodies..

    yr machine is the enemy

  5. Sue Ferreira

    September 2, 2022 at 4:14 am

    Is Humanity Smart Enough to Survive Itself? No!
    I couldn’t listen through to the end of this superficial twaddle.
    If Humanity was smart enough to survive itself, this question wouldn’t be asked, because we would be smart enough not to have got in this mess in the first place.

  6. Rich Spivey

    September 2, 2022 at 5:06 am

    We could, but we won’t.

  7. Quote’s

    September 2, 2022 at 6:26 am

    AI is More dangerous than what you think about it..

  8. Positive Quote’s

    September 2, 2022 at 6:26 am

    AI is More dangerous than what you think about it..

  9. 🇬█ 𝔎𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝔎alisari│

    September 2, 2022 at 6:29 am

    ─ *_BLESSED FRIDAY_*_ !!!_ ─

    ” _The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts._ ”

    ~ *BERTRAND RUSSELL* ✍️

    Book: 📚
    *_Bertrand Russell_*_ Collection, Selected Works, 1912-1922:_

    _The Problems of Philosophy, The Analysis of Mind, Why Men Fight, Free Thought and Official Propaganda_

  10. ALOKORE YUNUS

    September 2, 2022 at 7:41 am

    Putin’s violence is not the first and will not be last. That is how we are as humans. It is business for for many humans to destroy themselves and others. We also choose how to talk about it and which ones to talk or keep silent about. That is us.

  11. David Corgard

    September 2, 2022 at 9:20 am

    Are we smart enough? – Yes.

    Are our Rulers (we have no Leaders) willing enough? – No.

    All other points are moot.

  12. Pre Malone

    September 2, 2022 at 9:35 am

    Of course not, look at what we are doing to the planet and each other.

  13. Анатолий Ручка

    September 2, 2022 at 11:26 am

    If we smart enough, we will build Creative Society we must build it, some of us already building it, but not all

  14. Анатолий Ручка

    September 2, 2022 at 11:28 am

    Creative Society and company XPGNRG had already created artificial consciousness its the most powerful AI which ever existed, but we peoples can’t use it now because we are ignorent, and we live in consumer society

  15. Andrew Morozov

    September 2, 2022 at 11:37 am

    Sounds like not the research, but an encouraging speech with only thoughts and slogans. Well why not, it is TED not a scientific conference. However I find it hard to trust this ideas based more on emotional rather then scientific approach.

  16. Srinivasa M S

    September 2, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    AI will give me robot wife.

  17. Nestor Fortuna

    September 2, 2022 at 1:40 pm

    She didn’t say anything

    • Nestor Fortuna

      September 2, 2022 at 1:41 pm

      But Spoke a lot

  18. Sudam Tapkir

    September 2, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    Looks like Tony is talking about Ultron 😄

  19. MrSwitzerland88

    September 2, 2022 at 2:14 pm

    TLDR: No

  20. pernus

    September 2, 2022 at 4:01 pm

    The answer is no.

  21. Marin Zovko

    September 2, 2022 at 5:52 pm

    Wow! I never heard of this woman but just a minute after listening to this fascinating talk i bouth her book.
    Very interasting human bieng.
    She started to be eve more interasting since i found out she had a childhood similar to mine…

  22. ندى المنقوش

    September 3, 2022 at 1:50 am

    💟💟

  23. Randy Soong

    September 3, 2022 at 3:44 am

    Awesome!!

  24. Бекзат Аяз

    September 4, 2022 at 2:20 am

    Many people say that her speech has a lot of holes, but just think that it will be true what she says,just imagine!!

  25. Tammy Stockley-loughlin

    September 4, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    Had to give some kudos…you made me laugh out loud, startling the cat.
    Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times

  26. goldminor sanchez

    September 4, 2022 at 11:10 pm

    What a combination evangelical meets climate change. There is nothing more dangerous than true believers.

  27. Thales Pimenta de Figueiredo

    September 4, 2022 at 11:42 pm

    It does not seems to be a great ideia to not look to the real causes of the world’s today problems, not even to try to solve them by building an AI free from emotions based on humans’s emotions. We have, more than ever, to just be human beings, with human emotions, and face the challenge of deafeting our currently major problems.

  28. 안고슴도치

    September 5, 2022 at 6:39 am

    So can you give up what you have?

  29. M M

    September 5, 2022 at 7:03 am

    Capitalism is what will eventually kill us

  30. KaT Ïa

    September 5, 2022 at 10:07 am

    Yes 💛💛

  31. Winston O'Boogie

    September 5, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    There will always be another bad guy willing to exploit the honesty of others.
    Solve this problem and you’ll save the world.

  32. Oly Rhys

    September 6, 2022 at 10:51 am

    Now that’s a TED Talk. Genuinely thought provoking, riveting and delivered by someone who clearly knows their business. More like this please.

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