Mark Pesce - The Next Billion Seconds
Hosted by Mark Pesce and Kathryn Ryan and Sally Dominguez · Ampel
4.9from 37 ratings
- 148
- Episodes
- 51
- Transcribed
- 37
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Mark Pesce - The Next Billion Seconds
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- Publisher
- Ampel
- Category
- news · science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Jul 2019
- Latest episode
- 13 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
51 of 148 episodes have a transcript.
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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THIS BILLION SECONDS: AI@70 -- EP 5 THE AGE OF COGNITION
Published 13 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And So let's imagine two different scenarios. There's one good and then one, well, we'll call it the not so good scenario. Let's start with the good one. In a year or three, pretty much everyone is walking around with a second brain in their pocket. It's with us everywhere we go. It's doing thinking. It's not doing our thinking, and that's an important distinction. It's doing thinking for us that we would actually never do for ourselves. And what do I mean by that? Well, For example, it's organizing all of the thousands of photos on your smartphone for you. It's figuring out who's in them, where they were taken, labeling every one of them. […]
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Mark Pesce and Kathryn Ryan and Sally Dominguez host the show. Published by Ampel.
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