Life in the Singularity Ep. 1: From Turing to Superintelligence, AI as a Decentralization Engine
Badlands Media · Oct 2, 2026 · 1:00:52
Badlands Media · Oct 2, 2026 · 1:00:52
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Welcome to the Singularity, where the future arrives faster than your software updates. In this live debut, Matt McDonagh, a tech investor with 15 years in machine learning, explains how we got here. He starts with Alan Turing's famous test and the AI winters, then moves through Deep Blue, AlphaGo, the transformer breakthrough and the ChatGPT moment.
Next, Matt explains why AI isn't only a computer story. He calls it an all of economy story, powered by electricity, nuclear, rare earths, copper and a lot of very busy nerds. He takes on job loss fears and the data center psyop. He also explains why he sees AI as a weapon of mass decentralization for everyday people ready to learn, experiment, build and evolve.
Along the way: recursive self improvement, synthetic data, simulation theory, AGI versus ASI, and a helpful little AI fox named Ember Fang. New episodes every Thursday at 8pm Eastern.
