In this episode of Modern Cyber, Jeremy is joined by Jonathan Schaeffer, a 40-year AI veteran and the inventor of Kind, to discuss the sweeping evolution of artificial intelligence. Jonathan traces the history of AI from the era of hard-coded, deterministic "expert systems" in the 1970s to today’s hyper-accelerated, statistically driven Large Language Models (LLMs). The conversation deeply explores the challenges of diagnosing flaws in non-deterministic systems, the inherent risks of anthropomorphizing AI as conversational "chatbots," and the profound difference between a machine generating tokens and actual semantic understanding. Jonathan also shares his monumental achievement of mathematically solving the game of checkers after 18 years of distributed computation, and issues a stark warning about the massive trust deficit currently threatening ...