What are the implications of recent developments in code- and image-generating AI? What is the difference between intelligence and consciousness? What impact do these developments have on the open-source community? How will this affect developer jobs?

Test Driven Development in the Age of AI: https://youtu.be/kBIr46RNxVI

DALL.E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ GLIDE: https://syncedreview.com/2021/12/24/deepmind-podracer-tpu-based-rl-frameworks-deliver-exceptional-performance-at-low-cost-173/ AlphaFold: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/ AlphaCode: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode GitHub Co-Pilot: https://copilot.github.com/ GPT-3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 Helen Keller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller Michio Kaku: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku Douglas Hofstadter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter Terrence McKenna on Intuition: https://www.post-wave.com/21-terence-mckenna Jest: https://github.com/facebook/jest Enzyme: https://enzymejs.github.io/enzyme/ Web Vitals: https://web.dev/vitals/ Embrace Extend Extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Outro Music by Trevor Villwock

What does it mean to exist? We explore Plato’s theory of ideas and his Republic.

Plato Republic: https://youtu.be/rVxSoiHtovM

Sophie’s World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World

Stephen Wolfram heat death of the universe: https://youtu.be/kuFRyOwkYuE

Universal wavefunction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_wavefunction#:~:text=The%20universal%20wave%20function%20is,times%20a%20deterministic%20wave%20equation.%22

Bohr’s atom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

Alan Watts quote: https://youtu.be/-VzLBkmeW8E

Steven Pinker – The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-nature

Iain McGilchrist episode: https://www.post-wave.com/49-divided-brain

Who were the Stoics, what did they believe about the world, and how can we apply it to life today?

References:

Marcus Aurelius - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/

Hunter-gatherers and happiness - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/551018759/are-hunter-gatherers-the-happiest-humans-to-inhabit-earth

Dzogchen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzogchen

Music by Trevor Villwock