So I updated my phone. I got myself a nice iPhone 11, the max. And I usually skip a few new phones. I don't get the new phones as it comes out. I usually skip a few generations. So I actually skipped from the phones that require you to put your fingerprint on to the phones that recognize you by face. And I gotta tell ya, it really sort of changes how you feel about your phone.

Now that I no longer need to put in any kind of password or even use my thumb, my phone is basically aware that it's part of my body, in a sense. Because when it's near me, like my car does if I have my key in my pocket, I come near my car and the accent lights come on. My car knows when I'm near it, which is freaky. But now my phone does. So I pick it up and look at it and it comes alive because it knows who I am.

And here's where I'm going with this. You've heard of something called the singularity. Now the singularity is what all these smart people are afraid of. People like Elon Musk are afraid that someday computers will get to the point where they're so smart that they can program themselves. That they'll go from something like humans program them to be predictably what we want them to do to something that will learn on its own and program itself. And it will almost instantly become nearly omnipotent because the computers will have such capability that no human could be a competitive species.

Now here's the thing. I believe that that day is coming when computers will be able to learn and increase their own knowledge and connect to other computers and learn everything that's ever been learned. So I think that's going to happen. Here's why I'm not as afraid as some people. I believe that by the time we get there, the difference between human and computer will largely have vanished. Yeah. Didn't see that coming, did ya?

That's right. I'm not worried about the computers becoming sentient and wiping out people because at about the same time they become sentient, they will actually be people. So I think by then we will have done an experiment in which we can move your consciousness into a machine. And here's the fun part. Imagine if we could map your brain and move your consciousness into a machine and have the machine run for a little while, have some experiences on its own, and then could you put those memories back in the person? I'll bet we can someday, one way or another.

So I think that we're going to lose this distinction between a cold lifeless machine and a human who has this spark of life and a divine soul. Once we realize that the computers can do everything our divine soul can do, we might not believe in divine souls so much. So I'm not worried about the singularity because I think humans and computers will emerge into a combined species. And by the time there is such a thing as computers that can learn and become infinitely smart, so will I. I will be a human who is part computer.

You know that the guts of my phone will become more and more integrated with who I am, whether I'm connected to it or not. It'll be part of who I am. And the moment all computers become sentient, so too will that part of me. So humans are never going to give stuff away to computers because we will be computers for all practical purposes. So that's my prediction.