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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Are We Living Inside a Video Game? Rizwan Virk on his 'Simulation Hypothesis'
Description: Are we living in the Matrix?
Rizwan Virk—an MIT computer scientist, leading video game pioneer, entrepreneur, film producer, venture capitalist, professor, and a founder of Play Labs @ MIT—is a leading authority on simulation theory. Now he comes to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to discuss the issues raised in his new book The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game.Â
Virk says the evolution of our video games, including virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing, will lead u...