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	Podcast:		Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)
	Episode:		Imagining the singularity: What happens when computers transcend us?
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:40
	Publish Date:		2018-02-08 12:16:30
	Description:		As computers and Artificial Intelligence grow in power and capability, it seems ever more likely that we're approaching "the Singularity": the point where machine intelligence exceeds human intelligence. Could this be the dawn of a technological paradise? Or it could trigger humanity's doom? What kind of an intelligence will this be — benign or terrifying — a guru, a god or a monster? And is the idea of uploading the human mind the promise of immortality or just another dream of religious transcendence?
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