Simple Things Scaled Up

I watched a video this week that I cannot stop thinking about. It is roughly ten minutes, by Mo ( @atmoio ), and on paper it is about how AI works, but it turns into a question about what it means to be human, and it got me. So this is me thinking out loud after watching it. The good ideas here are mostly his. The commas are mine. He opens with a story from 1958. In a basement at Johns Hopkins,…