technologist, economist, george gilder is the author of 19 books. a founding member of the discovery institute. his most recent book is this gaming ai why ai can't think but can transform jobs right thanks again for being on book

. >> host: over the years on booktv we have talked with author george gilder about economics and technology, bitcoin. today we're going to talk to them about his most recent book and it's called "gaming ai." what is his book about? >> guest: this book is about the crazy religion that's captivated silicon valley wherein somehow their machine can eclipse human intelligence and then cascade through the universe produced an ever more brilliant machines without our help. leaving us behind us on the beach collecting guaranteed annual income while larry page and sergey brin of, , google, fy off to nearby planets elon musk and maybe with branson aboard now. but this illusion that somehow the human mind is a computer in can be excelled and usurped by computers that has captivated many figures in silicon valley is a kind of new religion. and it's nonsense as i show in "gaming ai," which is, it's not a great title for our critique of artificial intelligence, but, but artificial intelligence began by playing games. it won at chess. it beat garry kasparov at chest and then it moved on to beat all the gr

. >> over the years a book tv we have talked with author george gilder about economics and technology, bitcoin. today we're going to talk to him about his most recent book it is called db ai. mr. gilder what is this book about? practices the crazy religion that captivatedaz silicon valle. where and somehow their machine canada clips human intelligence and then cascade through the universe to produce an adverb or brilliant machine without our help. leaving us behind on the beach guaranteed annual income while larry page and google fly off to nearby planets with elon musk. and maybe with branson aboard now. it is this allusion that somehow the human mind is a computer could be excelled and usurped by computers that has captivated many figures in silicon valley as kind of a new religion. it is nonsense. i show and trade would which is not a great title for a critique of artificial intelligence. but artificial intelligence began by playing games chess there that moved on to beat all the great figures and received the world she appeared was defeated by it ai device. from these successes it

george gilder, my friend doxey wrote the introduction. >> yes he makes this really great observation.e says the tfe difference betwn our age in the stone ages entirely due to the growth in knowledge. we are not getting more atoms we are getting more. knowledge is the product of free human beings are able to explore and innovate. that is what allows us to escape poverty is knowledge. that's a function of human beings. if you really would have more stuff you've got to be in favor of more human beings. >> you teach economics at baylor. >> byu. in hawaii. at brigham young. your co-authors who? >> marion is a senior editor editor at cato institute on human progress. >> host: one of the theories that you talk about what is it? >> example used throughout the book. >> first of all remember we buy things with money that we really pay for a time,e, right? we buy is something i've got to go earn the money to make them money and money and buy this thing. we buy things with money and we pay for them with time. can we measure things -- we couldn't measure things in dollars and cents. we can also me

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well, george gilder you mentioned that we're in your view we're in this twilight zone between capitalism and socialism. where do you see it going? well, i've seen a real transformation of economics. i mean, this is where we had freedom first. yesterday we had this session on marx, tanz and adam smith and all three of them were disabled by the materialist superstition. they all thought somehow material resources, the constraint of capital and that the economics is really a science of scarcity and. and what we've discovered beginning with william nordhaus of yale and of was gail poole way and married to peer review interviewed them about their books their fabulous book called superabundance which shows that that is really a science of abundance and and and this is a crucial difference that all of economics science has been based on the idea scarcity that alternative uses for scarce resources implying that i can mix is in some way a zero sum game constrained by material limits and i've been for a decade now, i've been developing the information theory of economics, which is which is a scien

this book was written by george gilder, you have blurbs of support of the obama administration, torah peterson, you did something right to get that group of people to agree on your book, correct? >> rimarion knows all those guys and i think what they were able to see is you have this framework looking at things with time price instead of money price and reveals a different picture of what's happening so we have this framework of this datata and we see a different world once you have this way of looking at things you see it different in the world we see when we look at time prices, we are experiencing superabundant where we don't see the population, increasing population will make us run out of resources, it will be more abundant and we don't see the increase in population to cause other -- we see a story about elon musk, we have these new ones they wrote this book and they say the population will be doing this but first you will do this and crash and that is the thinking, this virus affecting our culture that we will run out of stuff and we have it today. bill maher talks about withou

i read this book by george gilder called " life after television and, it talked about infinite distribution distribution in our business was going to expand with cloud computing. i brought him in to speak at icm and nobody really understood. i talked to him after reading the book. i said, " it is going to go from 4 networks to six. i'm in the television business. at the time, you make money by putting tv packages on the list. why would i put a package on the air and give it to them for what i thought was an ok salary?" they were offering a lot of money to stay and my contract was up. with three other gentlemen, i said, " with my clients, if we do this, we can make a lot of money because i know what i can that on the air." david: where did you get the name endeavor? ariel: the four of us were sitting around trying to think of a name and one of the partners said we should think about nasa. they have great names. the first name we thought of was the discovery. then we realized it crashed, so that was out. then he says, " what about endeavor?' we all realized that was a great image of what we w

this book, the introduction was written by george gilder. you have support from jason furman of the obama administration, jordan peterson, steven pinker. you did something right to get that diverse group of people to agree on your book, correct? >> that was marian. marian knows all those guys. i think what they were able to see is look, you have this framework. looking at things with time prices instead of money prices reveals a completely different picture of what is happening. so we have this framework. then we go out and apply it to actual data and see a different world. it is like a telescope almost. it is like once you have this instrument, this way of looking at things, you see a completely different world. the world we see when we look at time prices says we are experiencing superabundance where we do not see that population will increase and make us run out of resources. we will become more abundant. you don't see an increase in population that will cause these other kinds of -- i mean, recently we have heard about elon musk versus t

technologist, economist, george gilder is the author of 19 books. a founding member of the discovery institute. his most recent book is this gaming ai why ai can't think but can transform jobs right thanks again for being on book >> good afternoon everybody thank you for joining us today for our book talk with university of pennsylvania authors. my name is richard james for the university of pennsylvania libraries i'm happy to have the opportunity to talk to doctor jason but his new book the problem with alzheimer's writing about bioethics and aging in the neurosciences. previous works include the novel open wound and jason has written essays for "the new york times", "washington post" the hill and the philadelphia inquirer. as well as hundreds of research articles professor of medicine health policy neurology had the university of pennsylvania and codirector of the ten memory center where he cares for patients he lives in philadelphia. today's talk is being recorded for broadcast at a later date. you don't have to worry about muting yourself. we ex

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