Jiang argues the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate U.S. government needed front people to make computers seem safe, cute, and innocuous despite Pentagon surveillance origins.
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Computers
Jiang argues the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate U.S.
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"...as a surveillance tool. They wanted to promote the internet and computers as a way to control people. But the problem is, Americans had..."
"...an IP to HP. So Steve Wozniak creates this open source computer. And then he goes to his superiors at HP and says, look,..."
"And then he becomes a billionaire along with Bill Gates. So HP gave Steve Wozniak the ability to sell Mac for free. Okay."
"...Huawei basically Huawei can take Apple IP and make these great computers so in the year 2016 when Trump first came into power Huawei..."
"...AI can actually think for itself. Okay. So he creates this computer and you sit down with this computer and you're asking questions and..."
"...you think you're talking to a person, but it's actually a computer program that says two things. Tell me more. This is interesting. Okay...."
"...machine learning okay and how it works is this before how computer programs would work is we would write the program the algorithm and..."
"...many possibilities so what I do is this I let the computer figure out it by itself I let the computer figure out the..."
"...conditions are clean data. Okay, the data you present to the computer have to be correct. Okay, it can't be an opinion like I..."
"Okay, you have to ask the computer, does this face match the name? Okay, you cannot ask the computer, what is God? What is..."
"...right of everyone to drive. To make every single car a computer in a robot. Does that make sense? Okay, if you take away..."
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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