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Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103

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Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog AI framework, formerly a director of research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the Sophia Robot. He has been a central figure in the AGI community for many years, including in the Conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: - Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/ - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex EPISODE LINKS: Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bengoertzel Ben's Website: https://goertzel.org/ AGI Conference: http://agi-conf.org/2020/ SingularityNET: https://singularitynet.io/ SingularityNET Twitter: https://twitter.com/singularity_net OpenCog: https://opencog.org/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 3:20 - Books that inspired you 6:38 - Are there intelligent beings all around us? 13:13 - Dostoevsky 15:56 - Russian roots 20:19 - When did you fall in love with AI? 31:30 - Are humans good or evil? 42:04 - Colonizing mars 46:53 - Origin of the term AGI 55:56 - AGI community 1:12:36 - How to build AGI? 1:36:47 - OpenCog 2:25:32 - SingularityNET 2:49:33 - Sophia 3:16:02 - Coronavirus 3:24:14 - Decentralized mechanisms of power 3:40:16 - Life and death 3:42:44 - Would you live forever? 3:50:26 - Meaning of life 3:58:03 - Hat 3:58:46 - Question for AGI CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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experience includes being a director of research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and chief scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the SOFIA robot.", 'The podcast host emphasizes the importance of supporting the podcast through various means such as subscribing on YouTube, reviewing with five stars on Apple Podcasts, supporting on Patreon, and connecting on Twitter.']}], 'duration': 113.231, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE49.jpg', 'highlights': ['Ben Goertzel has been a central figure in the AGI community, involved in SingularityNet, OpenCog AI Framework, and the Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, including the 2020 virtual conference happening this week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.', "Ben Goertzel's extensive experience includes being a director of research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and chief scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the SOFIA robot.", 'The episode highlights the sponsors of the podcast, The Jordan Harbinger Show and Masterclass, and encourages support through subscriptions and purchases.', 'The podcast host emphasizes the importance of supporting the podcast through various means such as subscribing on YouTube, reviewing with five stars on Apple Podcasts, supporting on Patreon, and connecting on Twitter.']}, {'end': 778.714, 'segs': [{'end': 206.416, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 181.647, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 187.649, 'text': 'Chris Hadfield explaining how rockets work and the experience of being launched into space alone is worth the money.', 'start': 181.647, 'duration': 6.002}, {'end': 194.732, 'text': 'Once again, sign up on masterclass.com slash Lex to get a discount and to support this podcast.', 'start': 188.429, 'duration': 6.303}, {'end': 199.493, 'text': "And now here's my conversation with Ben Kurtzel.", 'start': 195.512, 'duration': 3.981}, {'end': 206.416, 'text': 'What 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'src': 'embed', 'start': 1603.666, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1609.687, 'text': 'were written about quite articulately by fairly mainstream people who were professors at top universities.', 'start': 1603.666, 'duration': 6.021}, {'end': 1618.309, 'text': "It's just until the enabling technologies got to a certain point, then you couldn't make it real.", 'start': 1610.228, 'duration': 8.081}, {'end': 1628.874, 'text': 'So, and even in the 70s I was sort of seeing that and and living living through it right from star trek to douglas hofstader things were getting very,', 'start': 1618.369, 'duration': 10.505}], 'summary': "Mainstream professors wrote about enabling technologies until 70s, couldn't make it real.", 'duration': 25.208, 'max_score': 1603.666, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE1603666.jpg'}, {'end': 1722.314, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1698.219, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1708.346, 'text': "but he 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The speaker provides insights into Dostoevsky's critique of nihilism and its influence on Russian literature, emphasizing the polyphonic mode of fiction and its reflection of subjective understandings intersecting with each other.", "The speaker shares personal connections to Eastern European Jewish ancestry and the impact of socialist and communist ideologies on their family history, including the emigration to the US and the devastating loss of extended family in Eastern Europe during World War II. The speaker reflects on their family's history, emphasizing the socialist and communist influences on their ancestry and the tragic impact of World War II on their extended family in Eastern Europe.", "The speaker expresses a desire to transcend their physical form and acknowledges their upbringing in the Eastern European Jewish tradition while not adhering to traditional religious beliefs. 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Intellectual and cultural diversity, lineage of physical chemists, physicists, and musicians.", "Ben Goertzel's early exposure to quantum mechanics books from his grandfather at the age of seven or eight, giving him a head start in science and a unique opportunity to delve into complex scientific concepts at a young age. Exposure to quantum mechanics books at a young age.", 'His love for AI stemmed from a young age, influenced by watching a robot on Star Trek and his dissatisfaction with its portrayal of intelligence, leading to early critical thinking and interest in the field. Influence of AI from a young age.', "The impact of Douglas Hofstadter's book 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' at the age of 12, shaping his practical understanding of AI as an academic and engineering discipline and instilling the belief that he could work on AGI practically. Impact of 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' on understanding AI.", "The influence of Gerald Feinbaum's book 'The Prometheus Project' and its discussion of humanity creating superhuman thinking machines, molecular nanotechnology, and human immortality, shaping his perspective on the potential uses of technology. Influence of 'The Prometheus Project' on perspective of technology."]}, {'end': 1824.559, 'start': 1577.461, 'title': 'Evolution of futurist ideas', 'summary': 'Discusses the historical evolution of futurist and singularitarian advanced technology ideas, their mainstream acceptance, and their impact on culture and technology, while reflecting on the potential insights of nietzsche into ai.', 'duration': 247.098, 'highlights': ['The enabling technologies for futurist and singularitarian advanced technology ideas were fairly mature in the middle of the last century, with practical advancements seen from the late 60s to late 70s.', "Nietzsche's concept of the Superman, with complete root access to its own brain and consciousness, has significantly influenced postmodern continental philosophy and indirectly the development of technology.", 'The current time allows many of these historical ideas to be made real, signifying a remarkable and somewhat alarming period in history.']}], 'duration': 1044.965, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE779594.jpg', 'highlights': ["Dostoevsky's critique of nihilism and its influence on Russian literature, emphasizing the polyphonic mode of fiction and its reflection of subjective understandings intersecting with each other.", "Ben Goertzel's early exposure to quantum mechanics books at a young age, giving him a head start in science and a unique opportunity to delve into complex scientific concepts.", 'Influence of AI from a young age, influenced by watching a robot on Star Trek and his dissatisfaction with its portrayal of intelligence, leading to early critical thinking and interest in the field.', 'The enabling technologies for futurist and singularitarian advanced technology ideas were fairly mature in the middle of the last century, with practical advancements seen from the late 60s to late 70s.', "Nietzsche's concept of the Superman, with complete root access to its own brain and consciousness, has significantly influenced postmodern continental philosophy and indirectly the development of technology."]}, {'end': 2702.327, 'segs': [{'end': 1929.208, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1867.426, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1875.689, 'text': "If you look in the third part of the collection that's been titled The Will to Power, I mean in book three.", 'start': 1867.426, 'duration': 8.263}, {'end': 1880.631, 'text': "there there's very deep analysis of thinking processes.", 'start': 1875.689, 'duration': 4.942}, {'end': 1887.413, 'text': "but he wasn't so much of a physical tinkerer type guy, right?", 'start': 1880.631, 'duration': 6.782}, {'end': 1889.014, 'text': 'He was very abstract.', 'start': 1887.913, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 1897.218, 'text': 'What do you think about the will to power? 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Good and evil are.', 'start': 1925.544, 'duration': 3.664}], 'summary': "Deep analysis of thinking processes in the will to power, questioning the driving force behind humans' actions and the existence of both good and evil within them.", 'duration': 61.782, 'max_score': 1867.426, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE1867426.jpg'}, {'end': 1988.031, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1959.387, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1967.352, 'text': 'so that each of us does to a certain approximation what will help us propagate our DNA to future generations?', 'start': 1959.387, 'duration': 7.965}, {'end': 1972.936, 'text': "I mean, that's why I've got four kids so far and probably that's not the last one.", 'start': 1967.392, 'duration': 5.544}, {'end': 1975.038, 'text': 'On the other hand..', 'start': 1973.977, 'duration': 1.061}, {'end': 1975.838, 'text': 'I like the ambition.', 'start': 1975.038, 'duration': 0.8}, {'end': 1978.681, 'text': 'Tribal, like group selection,', 'start': 1976.84, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 1988.031, 'text': 'means humans in a way will do what will advocate for the persistence of the DNA of their whole tribe or their social group.', 'start': 1978.681, 'duration': 9.35}], 'summary': 'Humans propagate dna for future generations, reflected in having four kids and embracing tribal group selection.', 'duration': 28.644, 'max_score': 1959.387, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE1959387.jpg'}, {'end': 2250.241, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2227.69, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2237.775, 'text': 'But the population of super long-lived flies was physically sitting in a spare room at an Ayn Rand elementary school in Southern California.', 'start': 2227.69, 'duration': 10.085}, {'end': 2242.397, 'text': "So that was just like, well, if I saw this in a movie, I wouldn't believe it.", 'start': 2237.795, 'duration': 4.602}, {'end': 2247.34, 'text': 'Well, yeah, the universe has a sense of humor in that kind of way.', 'start': 2244.038, 'duration': 3.302}, {'end': 2250.241, 'text': 'Humor fits in somehow into this whole absurd existence.', 'start': 2247.68, 'duration': 2.561}], 'summary': 'Population of super long-lived flies at ayn rand elementary school in southern california.', 'duration': 22.551, 'max_score': 2227.69, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE2227690.jpg'}, {'end': 2694.608, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2657.54, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 2659.382, 'text': 'self-sustaining colonization of Mars.', 'start': 2657.54, 'duration': 1.842}, {'end': 2669.459, 'text': "Yeah, It's very clear that we will to me, because there's so much economic value in getting from narrow AI toward AGI,", 'start': 2659.693, 'duration': 9.766}, {'end': 2677.303, 'text': "whereas the Mars colony there's less economic value until you get quite far out into the future.", 'start': 2669.459, 'duration': 7.844}, {'end': 2679.404, 'text': "I think that's very interesting.", 'start': 2678.043, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 2684.285, 'text': "I just think it's somewhat somewhat off to the side.", 'start': 2680.305, 'duration': 3.98}, {'end': 2694.608, 'text': 'Just as I think say art and music are very, very interesting and I want to see resources go into amazing art and music being created.', 'start': 2684.825, 'duration': 9.783}], 'summary': 'Transitioning from narrow ai to agi holds more economic value than mars colonization in the near future.', 'duration': 37.068, 'max_score': 2657.54, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE2657540.jpg'}], 'start': 1824.559, 'title': "Nietzsche's views on human nature", 'summary': "Delves into nietzsche's inklings on artificial beings, the balance of selfishness and altruism in human nature, and the potential similarities to agi systems. it also explores the interplay of innate biological characteristics and cultural influences on selfishness and altruism, while questioning the potential for a more compassionate society and examining the practicality and impact of colonizing mars.", 'chapters': [{'end': 2250.241, 'start': 1824.559, 'title': "Nietzsche's inklings on artificial beings and human nature", 'summary': "Explores nietzsche's inklings on artificial beings, the balance of selfishness and altruism in human nature, and the complex constellation of human values, reflecting on the nature of humans and their potential similarities to agi systems.", 'duration': 425.682, 'highlights': ["Nietzsche's inklings on artificial beings and modern cognitive science Nietzsche had inklings about artificial beings and modern cognitive science, potentially reflecting on the nature of humans and their potential similarities to AGI systems.", 'The balance of selfishness and altruism in human nature Humans are shaped by both individual and group selection, resulting in a balance of selfishness and altruism, contributing to the makeup of our brains and values.', 'The complex constellation of human values and its reflection on good and evil Humans have a complex constellation of values, reflecting on the nature of good and evil, influenced by evolutionary history and individual perspectives.']}, {'end': 2702.327, 'start': 2250.661, 'title': 'Balance of selfishness and altruism', 'summary': 'Discusses the interplay of innate biological characteristics and cultural influences on selfishness and altruism, questioning the potential for a more compassionate and sharing human society, while also examining the practicality and potential impact of colonizing mars.', 'duration': 451.666, 'highlights': ['The interplay of innate biological characteristics and cultural influences on selfishness and altruism is discussed, questioning the potential for a more compassionate and sharing human society. Innate biological characteristics and cultural influences impact selfishness and altruism, questioning the potential for a compassionate society.', 'The practicality and potential impact of colonizing Mars is examined, considering its role as a first step in a long journey and the potential influence of AGI in space exploration. Examination of colonizing Mars as a first step in a long journey, considering the potential influence of AGI in space exploration.', 'The economic value of advancing from narrow AI to AGI is emphasized, suggesting the potential for faster progress towards AGI compared to the sustainability of a Mars colony. Emphasis on the economic value of advancing from narrow AI to AGI, suggesting faster progress towards AGI compared to Mars colony sustainability.']}], 'duration': 877.768, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE1824559.jpg', 'highlights': ["Nietzsche's inklings on artificial beings and modern cognitive science potentially reflecting on the nature of humans and their potential similarities to AGI systems.", 'The balance of selfishness and altruism in human nature shaped by both individual and group selection, resulting in a balance of selfishness and altruism, contributing to the makeup of our brains and values.', 'The complex constellation of human values reflecting on the nature of good and evil, influenced by evolutionary history and individual perspectives.', 'Innate biological characteristics and cultural influences impact selfishness and altruism, questioning the potential for a compassionate society.', 'Examination of colonizing Mars as a first step in a long journey, considering the potential influence of AGI in space exploration.', 'Emphasis on the economic value of advancing from narrow AI to AGI, suggesting faster progress towards AGI compared to Mars colony sustainability.']}, {'end': 4416.798, 'segs': [{'end': 2752.479, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2702.327, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2719.732, 'text': "I don't think Mars colonization or inventing amazing new genres of music is not one of the things that is most likely to make a critical difference in the evolution of human or non-human life in this part of the universe over the next decade.", 'start': 2702.327, 'duration': 17.405}, {'end': 2727.578, 'text': "Do you think AGI is really- AGI is by far the most important thing that's on the horizon.", 'start': 2719.812, 'duration': 7.766}, {'end': 2737.19, 'text': 'and then technologies that have direct ability to enable AGI or to accelerate AGI are also very important.', 'start': 2727.578, 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9.582}, {'end': 2896.575, 'text': 'Incorporated still in California, and included Shane Legg, who had worked for me at my company, Webmind in New York in the late 90s,', 'start': 2886.933, 'duration': 9.642}, {'end': 2900.436, 'text': 'who by now has become rich and famous.', 'start': 2896.575, 'duration': 3.861}, {'end': 2907.198, 'text': 'he was one of the co-founders of google deep mind, but at that, at that time, shane was uh,', 'start': 2900.436, 'duration': 6.762}], 'summary': 'Transcript mentions peter voss and shane legg, co-founder of google deep mind.', 'duration': 29.847, 'max_score': 2877.351, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE2877351.jpg'}, {'end': 4391.609, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4363.519, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 4367.842, 'text': "Yeah, that's a very interesting topic that I thought about for a long time.", 'start': 4363.519, 'duration': 4.323}, {'end': 4376.206, 'text': 'And I think there are many, many different approaches that can work for getting to human level AI.', 'start': 4367.902, 'duration': 8.304}, {'end': 4385.785, 'text': "So I don't think there's like one golden algorithm, one golden design that can work.", 'start': 4376.967, 'duration': 8.818}, {'end': 4391.609, 'text': 'And I mean flying machines is the much-worn analogy here, right?', 'start': 4385.845, 'duration': 5.764}], 'summary': 'Various approaches can work for achieving human-level ai, akin to the development of flying machines.', 'duration': 28.09, 'max_score': 4363.519, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE4363519.jpg'}], 'start': 2702.327, 'title': 'Evolution of agi', 'summary': 'Delves into the significance and origin of agi, its challenges and community history, the evolution of ai from academia to industry, and the transformation of agi from a fringe pursuit to a mainstream concept, with emphasis on key contributors and the dominance of neural network research.', 'chapters': [{'end': 3231.158, 'start': 2702.327, 'title': 'Importance of agi and origin of the term', 'summary': 'Emphasizes the critical importance of agi and technologies enabling it, while also discussing the origin of the term agi and its significance, as well as the pursuit of other technological advancements, such as curing aging and disease.', 'duration': 528.831, 'highlights': ['AGI and technologies enabling it are considered the most important advancements, with the potential to solve various problems and surpass human intelligence, making a critical difference in the evolution of life in the universe over the next decade. AGI and enabling technologies are of paramount importance for solving problems and surpassing human intelligence.', 'The pursuit of curing aging and disease is deemed significant for individual humans, but AGI is regarded as more crucial in the big picture. Curing aging and disease is important for individuals, but AGI is prioritized for broader impact.', "The origin story of the term AGI is discussed, revealing its creation and the reasoning behind its selection, as well as the preference for alternative terms like 'synthetic intelligence'. The term AGI's origin and rationale are presented, along with the preference for 'synthetic intelligence'."]}, {'end': 3555.545, 'start': 3231.158, 'title': 'Agi community history and challenges', 'summary': "Explores the challenges and limitations of achieving artificial general intelligence (agi), the evolving definition of intelligence in ai, and the historical global development of ai research, with emphasis on the ai community's steady growth and intellectual advancement outside the us military-funded ai research.", 'duration': 324.387, 'highlights': ["The AI community's steady growth and intellectual advancement outside the US military-funded AI research. The winters and summers of AI are greatly exaggerated by Americans, with a pretty steady growth and advance of ideas and papers in the AI community since the 1950s, globally.", 'The evolving definition of intelligence in AI, emphasizing open-ended intelligence and complex self-organizing systems. The discussion revolves around conceiving intelligence in terms of complex self-organizing systems and an intelligent system that revises, grows, and improves itself in conjunction with its environment, without necessarily optimizing a certain objective function.', "The challenges and limitations of achieving AGI, acknowledging the term's sociological function and immediate comprehension by people with a technical background. The term AGI serves a sociological function and is immediately comprehensible to people with a technical background, highlighting the challenges and limitations in achieving AGI."]}, {'end': 3902.675, 'start': 3556.125, 'title': 'Evolution of ai: from academia to industry', 'summary': 'Highlights the evolution of ai from academia to industry, emphasizing the shift from rule-based systems to learning from experience, and the contributions of individuals like john andreas, john cleary, and the emergence of open-source machine learning toolkits like weka.', 'duration': 346.55, 'highlights': ['The emergence of open-source machine learning toolkits like Weka, launched in 1993, laid the intellectual grounds for future developments in AI. The launch of Weka in 1993, the first open-source machine learning toolkit, paved the way for future developments in AI.', 'The focus on learning from experience and the isolation of innovative individuals in academia laid the groundwork for the evolution of AI. The emphasis on learning from experience and the presence of isolated, innovative individuals in academia laid the groundwork for the evolution of AI.', 'The efforts of individuals like John Andreas, John Cleary, and Shane Legg contributed to the development and propagation of AGI concepts and technologies. The contributions of individuals such as John Andreas, John Cleary, and Shane Legg played a significant role in the development and propagation of AGI concepts and technologies.']}, {'end': 4416.798, 'start': 3904.076, 'title': 'Agi evolution: from fringe to mainstream', 'summary': 'Discusses the evolution of agi from a fringe pursuit to a mainstream concept, marked by the increasing interest of national leaders and large corporations, the formation of sub-communities, and the dominance of neural network research in agi development.', 'duration': 512.722, 'highlights': ['AGI conferences have now become the main concentration of people interested in achieving AGI and not obsessed with deep neural nets, with several hundred attendees annually.', 'National leaders and large corporations, such as Vladimir Putin and Intel, have shown interest in AGI, marking a significant transition from being a pursuit of mavericks to a marketing term for big organizations.', 'The mainstreaming of AGI has led to the formation of sub-communities, such as the AGI conference series, and the dominance of neural network research in AGI development, with organizations like DeepMind and OpenAI leading the research.', 'The speaker emphasizes the need for diverse approaches in achieving human-level AI, likening it to the various designs of flying machines, suggesting that there is no single golden algorithm or design for AGI development.']}], 'duration': 1714.471, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE2702327.jpg', 'highlights': ['AGI and enabling technologies are paramount for surpassing human intelligence and solving problems.', 'AGI is prioritized for broader impact over curing aging and disease for individuals.', "The term AGI's origin, rationale, and preference for 'synthetic intelligence' are discussed.", 'The AI community has steadily grown and advanced globally since the 1950s.', 'The evolving definition of intelligence in AI emphasizes open-ended intelligence and self-organizing systems.', 'The term AGI serves a sociological function and highlights the challenges and limitations in achieving AGI.', 'The launch of Weka in 1993 paved the way for future developments in AI.', 'The emphasis on learning from experience and the presence of isolated, innovative individuals in academia laid the groundwork for the evolution of AI.', 'Individuals like John Andreas, John Cleary, and Shane Legg contributed significantly to the development and propagation of AGI concepts and technologies.', 'AGI conferences have become the main concentration of people interested in achieving AGI, with several hundred attendees annually.', 'National leaders and large corporations have shown interest in AGI, marking a significant transition from a pursuit of mavericks to a marketing term for big organizations.', 'The mainstreaming of AGI has led to the dominance of neural network research in AGI development, with organizations like DeepMind and OpenAI leading the research.', 'Diverse approaches are emphasized in achieving human-level AI, likening it to the various designs of flying machines.']}, {'end': 5697.163, 'segs': [{'end': 4451.423, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4416.918, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 4419.439, 'text': 'Yeah, so now these are all..', 'start': 4416.918, 'duration': 2.521}, {'end': 4424.682, 'text': 'analogs by a basic theory of aerodynamics.', 'start': 4420.339, 'duration': 4.343}, {'end': 4430.686, 'text': "One issue with AGI is we don't yet have the analog of the theory of aerodynamics.", 'start': 4424.802, 'duration': 5.884}, {'end': 4438.192, 'text': "That's what Markus Hutter was trying to make with the AXC and his general theory of general intelligence.", 'start': 4431.727, 'duration': 6.465}, {'end': 4451.423, 'text': 'But that theory in its most clearly articulated parts really only works for either infinitely powerful machines or insanely impractically powerful machines.', 'start': 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4502.097, 'duration': 2.402}, {'end': 4510.663, 'text': "It's searching through the space of all possible computer programs in between each action and its next action.", 'start': 4504.739, 'duration': 5.924}], 'summary': 'Ai evaluates its history, selects decision program, and makes optimal decisions based on reward function.', 'duration': 26.698, 'max_score': 4483.965, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE4483965.jpg'}, {'end': 4704.274, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4673.445, 'weight': 12, 'content': [{'end': 4684.013, 'text': "On the other hand, if you start from Aixi or Schmidhuber's girdle machine, or these infinitely powerful but practically infeasible AIs,", 'start': 4673.445, 'duration': 10.568}, {'end': 4687.898, 'text': 'then getting to a human level AGI is a matter of specialization.', 'start': 4684.013, 'duration': 3.885}, {'end': 4704.274, 'text': "It's like how do you take these maximally general learning processes and how do you specialize them so that they can operate within the resource constraints that you have but will achieve the particular things that you care about?", 'start': 4688.278, 'duration': 15.996}], 'summary': 'Specializing maximally general learning processes for human level agi is key.', 'duration': 30.829, 'max_score': 4673.445, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE4673445.jpg'}, {'end': 4775.535, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4747.496, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4764.788, 'text': "I think it's more complex than that because in some sense a young child is less biased and the brain has yet to sort of crystallize into appropriate structures for processing aspects of the physical and social world.", 'start': 4747.496, 'duration': 17.292}, {'end': 4775.535, 'text': 'On the other hand, the young child is very tied to their sensorium, whereas we can deal with abstract mathematics like 750 dimensions,', 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'text': 'It has another neural net, which is like a memory matrix that stores, say, the map of the London subway or something.', 'start': 5527.132, 'duration': 5.927}, {'end': 5540.082, 'text': 'probably Demis Hassabis was thinking about as part of cortex and part of hippocampus because hippocampus has a spatial map.', 'start': 5534.38, 'duration': 5.702}], 'summary': "Deepmind's differential neural computer uses neural nets for deep learning perception and memory storage, possibly inspired by the brain's hippocampus and cortex.", 'duration': 28.14, 'max_score': 5511.942, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE5511942.jpg'}, {'end': 5627.849, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5603.255, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 5610.041, 'text': "What I was going to say is it didn't happen in terms of bringing the lions of cognitive architecture together with the lions of deep learning.", 'start': 5603.255, 'duration': 6.786}, {'end': 5615.765, 'text': 'It did work in the sense that a bunch of younger researchers have had their heads filled with both of those ideas.', 'start': 5610.641, 'duration': 5.124}, {'end': 5624.701, 'text': 'This comes back to A saying my dad, who was a university professor, often quoted to me, which was, science advances one funeral at a time.', 'start': 5615.805, 'duration': 8.896}, {'end': 5627.849, 'text': "Which I'm trying to avoid.", 'start': 5625.928, 'duration': 1.921}], 'summary': 'Efforts to merge cognitive architecture and deep learning have influenced younger researchers, echoing the idea of scientific progress.', 'duration': 24.594, 'max_score': 5603.255, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE5603255.jpg'}, {'end': 5681.068, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5652.979, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 5656.78, 'text': "it can be hard once you're old and have made your career doing one thing.", 'start': 5652.979, 'duration': 3.801}, {'end': 5659.621, 'text': 'it can be hard to mentally shift gears.', 'start': 5656.78, 'duration': 2.841}, {'end': 5663.602, 'text': 'I mean, I try quite hard to remain flexible-minded.', 'start': 5659.641, 'duration': 3.961}, {'end': 5666.563, 'text': 'Have you been successful somewhat in changing?', 'start': 5663.622, 'duration': 2.941}, {'end': 5672.924, 'text': 'maybe have you changed your mind on some aspects of what it takes to build an AGI, like technical things?', 'start': 5666.563, 'duration': 6.361}, {'end': 5674.785, 'text': "The hard part is that the world doesn't want you to.", 'start': 5672.944, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 5677.945, 'text': 'the world or your own brain, the world.', 'start': 5675.583, 'duration': 2.362}, {'end': 5681.068, 'text': "well, that one point is that your brain doesn't want to.", 'start': 5677.945, 'duration': 3.123}], 'summary': 'Adapting to change in old age can be difficult. flexibility is crucial for embracing new ideas and concepts, even in technical fields.', 'duration': 28.089, 'max_score': 5652.979, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE5652979.jpg'}], 'start': 4416.918, 'title': 'Agi and axe machine', 'summary': 'Discusses the limitations of aerodynamics theory in relation to agi, introduces the axe-tl machine operating on vast processing power, and explores creating agi through program specialization, specializing human-level agi, and types of memory in agi development.', 'chapters': [{'end': 4524.516, 'start': 4416.918, 'title': 'Agi theory and axe machine', 'summary': 'Discusses the limitations of the theory of aerodynamics in relation to agi and introduces the axe-tl machine, which operates on insanely much processing power rather than infinitely much, by searching through all possible computer programs with runtime less than t and length less than l.', 'duration': 107.598, 'highlights': ['The AXE-TL machine operates on insanely much processing power rather than infinitely much, by searching through all possible computer programs with runtime less than t and length less than l.', 'Markus Hutter attempted to create the analog of the theory of aerodynamics for AGI with the AXC and his general theory of general intelligence.', 'The theory of general intelligence articulated by Markus Hutter only works for either infinitely powerful machines or insanely impractically powerful machines.']}, {'end': 4859.201, 'start': 4524.516, 'title': 'Creating agi through program specialization', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of creating agi through program specialization, adapting to specific constraints and environments, and the balance of generality and specialization in human intelligence, highlighting the potential inefficiency and russian origins of this approach, the concept of program specialization and its application to agi, and the trajectory of intelligence and specialization in human development.', 'duration': 334.685, 'highlights': ['The process of creating AGI through program specialization is discussed, emphasizing the adaptation to specific constraints and environments. The chapter outlines the process of creating AGI through program specialization, focusing on adapting to processing power constraints, space and time constraints, energy utilization constraints, and specific environmental requirements.', 'The concept of program specialization is explained using the example of sorting algorithms, illustrating the optimization for specific constraints such as sorting lists of a certain length. The concept of program specialization is illustrated using the example of sorting algorithms, showcasing the optimization for specific constraints, such as sorting lists of a specific length, through automated program specialization.', 'The discussion explores the balance of generality and specialization in human intelligence, highlighting the changes in generality and specialization throughout human development. The chapter delves into the balance of generality and specialization in human intelligence, emphasizing the changes in generality and specialization from birth to adulthood, including the impact of abstract thinking and formal capabilities on generality.']}, {'end': 5221.48, 'start': 4859.201, 'title': 'Specializing human-level agi', 'summary': 'Discusses the need to specialize superhuman brute force learning processes to achieve human-specific goals and resources, emphasizing the importance of hardware and software adaptation for different computational substrates and requirements, with a focus on embodied communication prior and cognitive science.', 'duration': 362.279, 'highlights': ['The implementation of AGI on different hardware resources, such as neurons in a vat, modern server farm, or future quantum computers, requires distinct approaches tailored to the computational substrates. The discussion highlights the need for specialized approaches to implement AGI on different hardware resources, emphasizing the need for distinct strategies for different computational substrates.', 'The importance of biases in creating human-like general intelligence and the concept of embodied communication prior to constrain the scope of possible intelligences and physically realizable systems for AGI. The concept of biases and the embodied communication prior are discussed as essential factors in creating human-like general intelligence, emphasizing the constraints on possible intelligences and physically realizable systems for AGI.', 'The cross-disciplinary nature of cognitive science, incorporating psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and engineering, to study memory, perception, and cognition in relation to AGI. The discussion highlights the cross-disciplinary nature of cognitive science and its focus on studying memory, perception, and cognition in relation to AGI, emphasizing the diverse fields involved in this study.']}, {'end': 5697.163, 'start': 5221.48, 'title': 'Types of memory and learning in agi', 'summary': 'Discusses the various types of memory in the human brain, including episodic, declarative, sensory, procedural, and motor memory, and emphasizes the co-evolution of different brain subsystems, highlighting the need to integrate cognitive architecture with learning theory for agi development.', 'duration': 475.683, 'highlights': ['The human brain has different subsystems for various types of memory, including episodic, declarative, sensory, procedural, and motor memory. The human brain encompasses different subsystems for various types of memory, such as episodic, declarative, sensory, procedural, and motor memory.', 'Emphasizes the co-evolution of different brain subsystems and the need to integrate cognitive architecture with learning theory for AGI development. The co-evolution of different brain subsystems and the necessity to integrate cognitive architecture with learning theory for AGI development is underscored.', 'Discusses the challenge of integrating learning theory with cognitive architecture, and the difficulty in merging cognitive and deep learning approaches. The challenge of integrating learning theory with cognitive architecture and the difficulty in merging cognitive and deep learning approaches is elaborated.']}], 'duration': 1280.245, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE4416918.jpg', 'highlights': ['The AXE-TL machine operates on insanely much processing power rather than infinitely much, by searching through all possible computer programs with runtime less than t and length less than l.', 'Markus Hutter attempted to create the analog of the theory of aerodynamics for AGI with the AXC and his general theory of general intelligence.', 'The theory of general intelligence articulated by Markus Hutter only works for either infinitely powerful machines or insanely impractically powerful machines.', 'The process of creating AGI through program specialization is discussed, emphasizing the adaptation to specific constraints and environments.', 'The chapter outlines the process of creating AGI through program specialization, focusing on adapting to processing power constraints, space and time constraints, energy utilization constraints, and specific environmental requirements.', 'The concept of program specialization is explained using the example of sorting algorithms, illustrating the optimization for specific constraints such as sorting lists of a certain length.', 'The discussion explores the balance of generality and specialization in human intelligence, highlighting the changes in generality and specialization throughout human development.', 'The implementation of AGI on different hardware resources, such as neurons in a vat, modern server farm, or future quantum computers, requires distinct approaches tailored to the computational substrates.', 'The importance of biases in creating human-like general intelligence and the concept of embodied communication prior to constrain the scope of possible intelligences and physically realizable systems for AGI.', 'The cross-disciplinary nature of cognitive science, incorporating psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and engineering, to study memory, perception, and cognition in relation to AGI.', 'The human brain has different subsystems for various types of memory, including episodic, declarative, sensory, procedural, and motor memory.', 'Emphasizes the co-evolution of different brain subsystems and the need to integrate cognitive architecture with learning theory for AGI development.', 'Discusses the challenge of integrating learning theory with cognitive architecture, and the difficulty in merging cognitive and deep learning approaches.']}, {'end': 8161.328, 'segs': [{'end': 5773.17, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5726.205, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 5731.826, 'text': "together with Alexey Potapov and his team in St. Petersburg, who's working with me in SingularityNet.", 'start': 5726.205, 'duration': 5.621}, {'end': 5735.727, 'text': "Now we're trying to go back to basics.", 'start': 5732.207, 'duration': 3.52}, {'end': 5739.648, 'text': 'take everything we learned from working with the current OpenCog system.', 'start': 5735.727, 'duration': 3.921}, {'end': 5749.971, 'text': 'take everything everybody else has learned from working with their proto-AGI systems and design the best framework for the next stage.', 'start': 5739.648, 'duration': 10.323}, {'end': 5759.298, 'text': "There's a lot to be learned from the recent successes with deep neural nets and deep reinforcement systems.", 'start': 5752.011, 'duration': 7.287}, {'end': 5764.422, 'text': 'People made these essentially trivial systems work much better than I thought they would.', 'start': 5759.758, 'duration': 4.664}, {'end': 5766.744, 'text': "There's a lot to be learned from that.", 'start': 5765.023, 'duration': 1.721}, {'end': 5773.17, 'text': 'I want to incorporate that knowledge appropriately in our OpenCog 2.0 system.', 'start': 5767.265, 'duration': 5.905}], 'summary': 'Collaborating with the team in st. petersburg to design opencog 2.0, incorporating recent successes with deep neural nets and reinforcement systems.', 'duration': 46.965, 'max_score': 5726.205, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE5726205.jpg'}, {'end': 5862.52, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5831.46, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 5843.484, 'text': "because the existing OpenCog system that we're working on now is not remotely close to what we'd consider a 1.0..", 'start': 5831.46, 'duration': 12.024}, {'end': 5849.986, 'text': "It's been around 13 years or something, but it's still an early stage research system.", 'start': 5843.484, 'duration': 6.502}, {'end': 5862.52, 'text': "Actually, we are going back to the beginning in terms of theory and implementation because we feel like that's the right thing to do.", 'start': 5850.827, 'duration': 11.693}], 'summary': 'Opencog system is not close to 1.0 after 13 years, prompting a return to theory and implementation.', 'duration': 31.06, 'max_score': 5831.46, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE5831460.jpg'}, {'end': 6076.325, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6051.751, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 6057.234, 'text': 'because you can have links pointing to links or you could have links pointing to whole subgraphs, right?', 'start': 6051.751, 'duration': 5.483}, {'end': 6060.376, 'text': "So it's an extended hypergraph or a metagraph.", 'start': 6057.254, 'duration': 3.122}, {'end': 6063.598, 'text': 'Is metagraph a technical term? It is now a technical term.', 'start': 6060.476, 'duration': 3.122}, {'end': 6069.321, 'text': "Interesting But I don't think it was yet a technical term when we started calling this a generalized hypergraph.", 'start': 6063.698, 'duration': 5.623}, {'end': 6076.325, 'text': "But in any case, it's a weighted-labeled generalized hypergraph or weighted-labeled metagraph.", 'start': 6070.161, 'duration': 6.164}], 'summary': 'Discussion on weighted-labeled generalized hypergraph and metagraph.', 'duration': 24.574, 'max_score': 6051.751, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE6051751.jpg'}, {'end': 6973.047, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6944.756, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 6950.078, 'text': 'one key part is switching from predicate logic to term logic.', 'start': 6944.756, 'duration': 5.322}, {'end': 6960.862, 'text': "What is predicate logic? What is term logic? Term logic was invented by Aristotle, or at least that's the oldest recollection we have of it.", 'start': 6950.458, 'duration': 10.404}, {'end': 6967.404, 'text': 'But term logic breaks down basic logic into basically simple links between nodes.', 'start': 6961.442, 'duration': 5.962}, {'end': 6973.047, 'text': 'inheritance link between node A and node B.', 'start': 6968.544, 'duration': 4.503}], 'summary': 'Switching from predicate logic to term logic, a simpler approach to basic logic.', 'duration': 28.291, 'max_score': 6944.756, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE6944756.jpg'}, {'end': 7084.184, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7052.035, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 7053.555, 'text': 'Is there an inheritance relation??', 'start': 7052.035, 'duration': 1.52}, {'end': 7056.936, 'text': 'Are they similar in some context??', 'start': 7054.735, 'duration': 2.201}, {'end': 7065.658, 'text': "On the other hand, if there's a logical relation between A and B, that may direct your neural component to think well, when I'm thinking about A,", 'start': 7057.476, 'duration': 8.182}, {'end': 7069.899, 'text': "should I be directing some attention to B also? Because there's a logical relation?", 'start': 7065.658, 'duration': 4.241}, {'end': 7074.32, 'text': "So, in terms of logic, there's a lot of thought that went into.", 'start': 7070.239, 'duration': 4.081}, {'end': 7084.184, 'text': 'how do you break down logic relations, including basic sort of propositional logic relations, as Aristotelian term logic deals with,', 'start': 7074.32, 'duration': 9.864}], 'summary': 'Analyzing logical relations for neural component attention.', 'duration': 32.149, 'max_score': 7052.035, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE7052035.jpg'}, {'end': 7944.467, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7918.882, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 7927.602, 'text': "And as an artist, I love them, right? So I mean, We're using our own neural model, which is along those lines, to control the Philip K.", 'start': 7918.882, 'duration': 8.72}, {'end': 7928.503, 'text': 'Dick robot now.', 'start': 7927.602, 'duration': 0.901}, {'end': 7933.324, 'text': "And it's amazing to train a neural model on the robot Philip K.", 'start': 7929.003, 'duration': 4.321}, {'end': 7939.966, 'text': 'Dick and see it come up with crazed, stoned philosopher pronouncements, very much like what Philip K.', 'start': 7933.324, 'duration': 6.642}, {'end': 7944.467, 'text': 'Dick might have said, right? So these models are super cool.', 'start': 7939.966, 'duration': 4.501}], 'summary': 'Using neural model to control philip k. dick robot, generating philosopher pronouncements.', 'duration': 25.585, 'max_score': 7918.882, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE7918882.jpg'}, {'end': 8023.352, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7994.506, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 8000.568, 'text': "Then you can actually train something that will output the sentence parse from the transformer network's internal state.", 'start': 7994.506, 'duration': 6.062}, {'end': 8006.853, 'text': 'We did this, I think, Christopher Manning, some others have not done this also.', 'start': 8001.008, 'duration': 5.845}, {'end': 8016.925, 'text': "But what you get is that the representation is hardly ugly and is scattered all over the network and doesn't look like the rules of grammar that you know are the right rules of grammar.", 'start': 8008.154, 'duration': 8.771}, {'end': 8018.026, 'text': "It's ugly.", 'start': 8017.265, 'duration': 0.761}, {'end': 8023.352, 'text': "What we're actually doing is we're using a symbolic grammar learning algorithm.", 'start': 8019.067, 'duration': 4.285}], 'summary': "Training a transformer network to output sentence parse, but representation is scattered and doesn't follow grammar rules.", 'duration': 28.846, 'max_score': 7994.506, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE7994506.jpg'}], 'start': 5697.163, 'title': "Opencog's evolution and applications", 'summary': "Explores the evolution of opencog, its role in agi, quantum computing's integration, hypergraph applications in physics, and knowledge representation. it also delves into the re-architecture of opencog for improved performance, interoperation with neural nets, and scalability, highlighting key milestones and challenges.", 'chapters': [{'end': 5800.476, 'start': 5697.163, 'title': 'Rethinking agi and quantum computing', 'summary': "Discusses the shift in perspective on quantum computing's necessity for agi, the complete rethink of the opencog agi system, and the incorporation of recent successes with deep neural nets and deep reinforcement systems.", 'duration': 103.313, 'highlights': ["The chapter highlights the reconsideration of quantum computing's necessity for AGI, expressing doubt about its requirement but acknowledging its potential as a significant enhancement.", 'The chapter emphasizes the ongoing complete rethink and rewrite of the OpenCog AGI system, in collaboration with Alexey Potapov and his team in St. Petersburg, focusing on going back to basics and designing the best framework for the next stage.', 'The chapter discusses the intention to incorporate the recent successes with deep neural nets and deep reinforcement systems into the OpenCog 2.0 system, acknowledging the significant advancements made by others in this area.', 'The chapter also addresses the limitations of current deep neural net architectures in achieving AGI, cautioning against dismissing their potential due to exaggerated claims by journalists and researchers.']}, {'end': 6195.102, 'start': 5801.617, 'title': 'Opencog 2.0 and the evolution of agi', 'summary': 'Discusses the evolution of opencog, starting from its inception in 2001, its transition to open-source in 2008, and the development of its core component, the atom space, a weighted labeled generalized hypergraph, which forms the basis of its software platform.', 'duration': 393.485, 'highlights': ["OpenCog's core component, the Atom space, is a weighted labeled generalized hypergraph, providing a versatile representation with nodes and links having numbers and symbols attached to them. The Atom space in OpenCog is a weighted labeled generalized hypergraph, allowing nodes and links to have numbers and symbols attached to them, providing a versatile representation.", 'OpenCog was launched as an open-source software project in 2008, after being a proprietary code base for around 13 years, and primarily written in C++ with some scheme. OpenCog transitioned to open-source in 2008 after being a proprietary code base for around 13 years. It is primarily written in C++ with some scheme.', 'The chapter also delves into the practical applications of OpenCog, such as the pattern matcher for abstract pattern recognition and the cog server for running different agents or processes. The chapter discusses the practical applications of OpenCog, including the pattern matcher for abstract pattern recognition and the cog server for running different agents or processes.']}, {'end': 6823.084, 'start': 6195.102, 'title': 'Opencog framework and hypergraphs in physics', 'summary': "Discusses the potential use of the opencog framework in modeling biological networks and simulating physics using hypergraphs, highlighting the importance of graph processors and the limitations of current hardware for opencog's processing model, while also touching upon the potential of neuromorphic computing and the intersection of quantum computing with hypergraph-based architectures.", 'duration': 627.982, 'highlights': ['The potential use of the OpenCog framework in modeling biological networks and simulating physics using hypergraphs The chapter delves into utilizing the OpenCog framework for modeling biological networks and simulating physics using hypergraphs, showcasing its versatility and potential applications.', "Importance of graph processors and limitations of current hardware for OpenCog's processing model The discussion emphasizes the significance of graph processors in enhancing OpenCog's performance and the current limitations of hardware, particularly GPUs, for OpenCog's processing model.", 'Potential of neuromorphic computing and the intersection of quantum computing with hypergraph-based architectures The chapter explores the potential of neuromorphic computing to accelerate OpenCog and discusses the intersection of quantum computing with hypergraph-based architectures, hinting at future advancements in this area.']}, {'end': 7442.884, 'start': 6823.184, 'title': 'Interoperable knowledge representation', 'summary': 'Discusses the core concept of finding a universal and interconvertible representation for various types of knowledge, enabling different learning algorithms to interact and help each other out, focusing on the shift from predicate logic to term logic, the importance of representability and comprehensibility, and the practical implementation of the curry-howard isomorphism for reasoning about procedures.', 'duration': 619.7, 'highlights': ['The core concept is to find a universal and interconvertible representation for various types of knowledge, enabling different learning algorithms to interact and help each other out. This includes the need for a level of representation where all types of knowledge are stored in a universal and interconvertible way to facilitate cooperation among different learning algorithms.', 'The shift from predicate logic to term logic is essential for breaking down basic logic into nodes and links, enabling inference, deduction, and the assignment of weights for probabilistic algorithms. The discussion emphasizes the importance of breaking down logic into nodes and links, allowing for inference and deduction, as well as the assignment of weights for probabilistic algorithms.', 'Representability and comprehensibility are key challenges in making knowledge interpretable by both AI systems and humans, with logic systems offering more potential for transparency and comprehensibility than neural net systems. The challenge lies in making knowledge interpretable by both AI systems and humans, with logic systems being potentially more transparent and comprehensible than neural net systems, although it requires effort to achieve.', 'The practical implementation of the Curry-Howard isomorphism is crucial for reasoning about procedures, allowing the logic engine to reason about procedure improvements and map them back into an efficient procedural representation. The discussion highlights the importance of the practical implementation of the Curry-Howard isomorphism for reasoning about procedures, enabling the logic engine to reason about procedure improvements and map them back into an efficient procedural representation.']}, {'end': 8161.328, 'start': 7443.928, 'title': 'Rebuilding true agi system with opencog 2.0', 'summary': 'Discusses the need to re-architect the opencog system, now called true agi, to address performance requirements for faster type checking, efficient interoperation with deep neural net frameworks, and scalability, while also exploring challenges with grammar induction and neural network representations.', 'duration': 717.4, 'highlights': ['The need to re-architect OpenCog system, now called True AGI, to address performance requirements for faster type checking, efficient interoperation with deep neural net frameworks, and scalability. The system is being rebuilt to address the need for faster type checking among dependent types and probabilistic dependent types, efficient interoperation with deep neural net frameworks, and scalability for distributed processing.', 'Challenges with grammar induction and neural network representations, and efforts to use symbolic grammar learning algorithm with the transformer neural network as a sentence probability oracle. The chapter explores challenges with grammar induction and neural network representations, and discusses the use of symbolic grammar learning algorithm with the transformer neural network as a sentence probability oracle to guide the learning process.', 'Exploration of challenges in achieving a semantically meaningful representation internally in neural networks and the attempts to train neural net models to recognize and generate semantic latent variables. The discussion delves into the challenges of achieving a semantically meaningful representation internally in neural networks and the attempts to train neural net models to recognize and generate semantic latent variables, with a focus on the Infogam project and the limitations encountered.']}], 'duration': 2464.165, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE5697163.jpg', 'highlights': ['The OpenCog AGI system is being completely rethought and rewritten to design the best framework for the next stage.', "OpenCog's Atom space is a weighted labeled generalized hypergraph, providing a versatile representation.", 'OpenCog transitioned to open-source in 2008 after being a proprietary code base for around 13 years.', 'The potential use of the OpenCog framework in modeling biological networks and simulating physics using hypergraphs.', "The discussion emphasizes the significance of graph processors in enhancing OpenCog's performance and the current limitations of hardware.", 'The core concept is to find a universal and interconvertible representation for various types of knowledge.', 'The shift from predicate logic to term logic is essential for breaking down basic logic into nodes and links.', 'The challenge lies in making knowledge interpretable by both AI systems and humans, with logic systems being potentially more transparent and comprehensible than neural net systems.', 'The need to re-architect OpenCog system, now called True AGI, to address performance requirements for faster type checking, efficient interoperation with deep neural net frameworks, and scalability.', 'The chapter explores challenges with grammar induction and neural network representations, and discusses the use of symbolic grammar learning algorithm with the transformer neural network as a sentence probability oracle to guide the learning process.']}, {'end': 8894.468, 'segs': [{'end': 8475.107, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8403.861, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 8410.723, 'text': 'so the the first paper deep math which applied deep neural nets to guide theorem proving was out of google brain.', 'start': 8403.861, 'duration': 6.862}, {'end': 8420.406, 'text': 'i mean by now, by now, the the automated theorem proving community has gone way, way way beyond anything google was doing, but still yeah.', 'start': 8410.723, 'duration': 9.683}, {'end': 8423.807, 'text': 'but anyway, if that community was going to make an agi,', 'start': 8420.406, 'duration': 3.401}, {'end': 8433.78, 'text': 'probably One way they would do it was take 25 different neural modules architected in different ways, maybe resembling different parts of the brain,', 'start': 8423.807, 'duration': 9.973}, {'end': 8440.545, 'text': 'like a basal ganglia model, cerebellum model, a thalamus model, a few hippocampus models,', 'start': 8433.78, 'duration': 6.765}, {'end': 8443.187, 'text': 'number of different models representing parts of the cortex right?', 'start': 8440.545, 'duration': 2.642}, {'end': 8451.473, 'text': 'Take all of these and then wire them together to co-train and learn them together.', 'start': 8443.728, 'duration': 7.745}, {'end': 8453.055, 'text': 'That would be..', 'start': 8452.574, 'duration': 0.481}, {'end': 8456.806, 'text': 'and approach to creating an AGI.', 'start': 8454.122, 'duration': 2.684}, {'end': 8465.477, 'text': 'One could implement something like that efficiently on top of our true AGI, like OpenCog 2.0 system once it exists,', 'start': 8457.346, 'duration': 8.131}, {'end': 8470.223, 'text': 'although obviously Google has their own highly efficient implementation architecture.', 'start': 8465.477, 'duration': 4.746}, {'end': 8473.286, 'text': "I think that's a decent way to build AGI.", 'start': 8471.444, 'duration': 1.842}, {'end': 8475.107, 'text': 'I was very interested in that in the mid-90s.', 'start': 8473.306, 'duration': 1.801}], 'summary': "The automated theorem proving community has advanced beyond google's deep neural nets, but a potential way to create agi is by co-training 25 different neural modules representing parts of the brain.", 'duration': 71.246, 'max_score': 8403.861, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE8403861.jpg'}, {'end': 8899.289, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8874.839, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 8882.944, 'text': 'I organized a conference together with Frances Heiligen at Free University of Brussels in 2001, which was the Global Brain Zero Conference.', 'start': 8874.839, 'duration': 8.105}, {'end': 8886.106, 'text': "We're planning the next version, the Global Brain One Conference.", 'start': 8882.964, 'duration': 3.142}, {'end': 8894.468, 'text': 'at the free university of brussels for next year, 2021, so 20, 20 years after then we maybe we can have the next one, 10 years after that,', 'start': 8886.926, 'duration': 7.542}, {'end': 8899.289, 'text': 'like exponentially faster, until the singularity comes right.', 'start': 8894.468, 'duration': 4.821}], 'summary': 'Organized global brain zero conference in 2001, planning global brain one conference at free university of brussels for 2021 and aiming for exponential growth.', 'duration': 24.45, 'max_score': 8874.839, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE8874839.jpg'}], 'start': 8161.388, 'title': 'Agi development', 'summary': "Discusses using deep neural networks for symbolic representation and the potential of building agi, brain's functioning in agi development, concept neurons, and singularitynet as a platform for decentralized ai network.", 'chapters': [{'end': 8475.107, 'start': 8161.388, 'title': 'Neural networks and symbolic representation', 'summary': 'Discusses the use of deep neural networks as an oracle for symbolic representation and explores the potential of building agi by combining different neural modules.', 'duration': 313.719, 'highlights': ['The use of deep neural networks as an oracle for guiding structured learning algorithms is discussed, offering a new approach to symbolic representation. By using deep neural networks as an oracle to guide the structure learning algorithm, a new approach to symbolic representation is proposed.', 'The potential of building AGI by combining different neural modules, resembling different parts of the brain, is explored as a promising approach. The idea of creating AGI by wiring together 25 different neural modules, resembling different parts of the brain, is considered a promising approach.', 'The interdisciplinary work at DeepMind, particularly in neuroscience, is highlighted, suggesting a broad approach to AGI development. The interdisciplinary work at DeepMind, particularly in neuroscience, is emphasized, indicating a broad approach to AGI development.']}, {'end': 8894.468, 'start': 8475.747, 'title': 'Brain functions and agi development', 'summary': "Discusses the brain's functioning in terms of concept neurons, symbolic representations, and the potential for agi development before full understanding of the brain. it also explores the concept of singularitynet as a platform for decentralized network of artificial intelligences.", 'duration': 418.721, 'highlights': ['The potential for AGI development before full understanding of the brain The speaker suggests that AGI could be developed before fully understanding how the brain works, based on the basic principles of brain functioning and engineering mindset.', 'The concept of SingularityNet as a platform for decentralized network of artificial intelligences SingularityNet is described as a platform for realizing a decentralized network of artificial intelligences, involving the interaction and cooperation of different AIs to achieve human-level intelligence.', "The brain's functioning in terms of concept neurons and symbolic representations The discussion explores the presence of concept neurons, such as the so-called 'grandmother neuron,' and the coordination between discrete symbolic representations in the hippocampus and distributed representations in the cortex.", "The speaker's frustration with the current understanding of brain functioning The speaker expresses frustration with the lack of understanding about how the brain functions, particularly due to the limitations in measurement and electrode placement between the cortex and hippocampus."]}], 'duration': 733.08, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE8161388.jpg', 'highlights': ['The interdisciplinary work at DeepMind, particularly in neuroscience, is emphasized, indicating a broad approach to AGI development.', 'The use of deep neural networks as an oracle for guiding structured learning algorithms is discussed, offering a new approach to symbolic representation.', 'The potential of building AGI by combining different neural modules, resembling different parts of the brain, is explored as a promising approach.', 'The idea of creating AGI by wiring together 25 different neural modules, resembling different parts of the brain, is considered a promising approach.', 'The potential for AGI development before full understanding of the brain is suggested, based on the basic principles of brain functioning and engineering mindset.', 'The concept of SingularityNet as a platform for realizing a decentralized network of artificial intelligences is described.', 'SingularityNet involves the interaction and cooperation of different AIs to achieve human-level intelligence.', "The discussion explores the presence of concept neurons, such as the so-called 'grandmother neuron,' and the coordination between discrete symbolic representations in the hippocampus and distributed representations in the cortex.", 'The speaker expresses frustration with the lack of understanding about how the brain functions, particularly due to the limitations in measurement and electrode placement between the cortex and hippocampus.']}, {'end': 10133.498, 'segs': [{'end': 8973.593, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8917.063, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 8924.268, 'text': 'So one of the issues you face when architecting a system like that is know how.', 'start': 8917.063, 'duration': 7.205}, {'end': 8925.629, 'text': 'how is the whole thing controlled?', 'start': 8924.268, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 8931.754, 'text': 'do you have like a centralized control unit that pulls the puppet strings of all the different modules there,', 'start': 8925.629, 'duration': 6.125}, {'end': 8945.004, 'text': 'or do you have a fundamentally decentralized network where the society of of ais is controlled in some democratic and self-organized way by all the ais in in that society?', 'start': 8931.754, 'duration': 13.25}, {'end': 8949.587, 'text': 'right and Francis and I had different view of many things,', 'start': 8945.004, 'duration': 4.583}, {'end': 8960.493, 'text': 'but we both wanted to make a global society of AI minds with a decentralized organizational mode.', 'start': 8949.587, 'duration': 10.906}, {'end': 8970.378, 'text': 'Now, the main difference was he wanted the individual AIs to be all incredibly simple and all the intelligence to be on the collective level.', 'start': 8960.533, 'duration': 9.845}, {'end': 8973.593, 'text': 'I thought that was cool,', 'start': 8972.572, 'duration': 1.021}], 'summary': 'Architecting a decentralized global society of ai minds with different organizational views.', 'duration': 56.53, 'max_score': 8917.063, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE8917063.jpg'}, {'end': 9368.655, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9340.211, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 9347.336, 'text': 'is that we want the AIs in the network to be outsourcing work to each other and making API calls to each other frequently.', 'start': 9340.211, 'duration': 7.125}, {'end': 9347.816, 'text': 'I got you.', 'start': 9347.356, 'duration': 0.46}, {'end': 9362.228, 'text': 'So the real benefit would be if that AI wanted to outsource some cognitive processing or data processing or data preprocessing whatever to some other AIs in the network which specialize in something different.', 'start': 9348.056, 'duration': 14.172}, {'end': 9368.655, 'text': 'This really requires a different way of thinking about AI software development.', 'start': 9363.649, 'duration': 5.006}], 'summary': 'Ai network aims to outsource work, make frequent api calls for cognitive processing, data preprocessing.', 'duration': 28.444, 'max_score': 9340.211, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE9340211.jpg'}, {'end': 9576.798, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9554.925, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 9565.171, 'text': "if, uh, if you look at the future of currency, uh, you know the question is well, currency, the main bottleneck, is politics like it's government.", 'start': 9554.925, 'duration': 10.246}, {'end': 9570.134, 'text': 'so the bands of armed thugs that will shoot you if you bypass their their currency restrictions.', 'start': 9565.171, 'duration': 4.963}, {'end': 9570.574, 'text': "that's right.", 'start': 9570.134, 'duration': 0.44}, {'end': 9573.696, 'text': 'so, like your sense, is that versus the technical challenges?', 'start': 9570.574, 'duration': 3.122}, {'end': 9576.798, 'text': 'because you kind of just suggested the technical challenges are quite high as well.', 'start': 9573.696, 'duration': 3.102}], 'summary': "Currency's future hindered by politics and armed restrictions, facing high technical challenges.", 'duration': 21.873, 'max_score': 9554.925, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE9554925.jpg'}, {'end': 9646.253, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9618.484, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 9622.165, 'text': 'The ERNB will probably be the first global, the first currency on the blockchain.', 'start': 9618.484, 'duration': 3.681}, {'end': 9623.285, 'text': 'The E-Ruble may be next.', 'start': 9622.185, 'duration': 1.1}, {'end': 9625.246, 'text': 'The E-Ruble? Yeah.', 'start': 9623.586, 'duration': 1.66}, {'end': 9627.167, 'text': "That's hilarious.", 'start': 9625.866, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 9636.931, 'text': 'Digital currency makes total sense, but they would rather do it in the way that Putin and Xi Jinping have access to the global keys for everything.', 'start': 9627.247, 'duration': 9.684}, {'end': 9643.152, 'text': "And then the analogy to that in terms of singularity net, I mean, there's echoes.", 'start': 9638.57, 'duration': 4.582}, {'end': 9646.253, 'text': "I think you've mentioned before that Linux gives you hope.", 'start': 9643.672, 'duration': 2.581}], 'summary': 'Ernb and e-ruble may be first global currencies on blockchain with potential access to global keys by putin and xi jinping.', 'duration': 27.769, 'max_score': 9618.484, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE9618484.jpg'}, {'end': 9692.958, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9666.179, 'weight': 11, 'content': [{'end': 9672.781, 'text': "right, i mean, if you're going to regulate ai, there's no iq test for every hardware device that has a learning algorithm.", 'start': 9666.179, 'duration': 6.602}, {'end': 9678.882, 'text': "you're going to be putting like hegemonic regulation on all software, and i don't rule out that that.", 'start': 9672.781, 'duration': 6.101}, {'end': 9681.043, 'text': 'any adaptive software?', 'start': 9678.882, 'duration': 2.161}, {'end': 9683.623, 'text': 'yeah, but how do you tell if software is adaptive and what?', 'start': 9681.043, 'duration': 2.58}, {'end': 9685.524, 'text': 'so every software is going to be adaptive.', 'start': 9683.623, 'duration': 1.901}, {'end': 9692.958, 'text': "i mean, Or maybe we're living in the golden age of open source that will not always be open.", 'start': 9685.524, 'duration': 7.434}], 'summary': 'Challenges in regulating ai without iq testing, and potential impact on all software, including adaptive and open source technologies.', 'duration': 26.779, 'max_score': 9666.179, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE9666179.jpg'}], 'start': 8894.468, 'title': 'Decentralized ai and blockchain', 'summary': 'Discusses creating a global society of ai minds with a decentralized organizational mode, decentralized control of ai on the singularitynet platform, challenges in decentralized blockchain infrastructure, and regulating ai and open source, including examples of mesh networking and blockchain integration.', 'chapters': [{'end': 9035.21, 'start': 8894.468, 'title': 'Global brain: decentralized ai society', 'summary': 'Discusses creating a global society of ai minds with a decentralized organizational mode, utilizing both generally intelligent agents and simpler learning systems, to form a collective intelligence living on the internet.', 'duration': 140.742, 'highlights': ['Creating a global society of AI minds with a decentralized organizational mode, utilizing generally intelligent agents and simpler learning systems to form a collective intelligence living on the internet.', 'Debating between a centralized control unit or a fundamentally decentralized network for controlling the society of AIs.', 'Differentiating between the views of having all intelligence on the collective level versus having some agents in the society of minds being fairly generally intelligent on their own.']}, {'end': 9435.207, 'start': 9035.73, 'title': 'Decentralized control of ai on the singularitynet platform', 'summary': 'Discusses the evolution of decentralized control of ai, the development of singularitynet as a decentralized agent system, challenges of putting ai operations on the blockchain, the use of ethereum blockchain for coordinating ais, and the potential benefits of ais in the decentralized network.', 'duration': 399.477, 'highlights': ["SingularityNet's development as a decentralized agent system SingularityNet was conceptualized to create a decentralized agent system where different AIs can have their own identity on the blockchain and coordinate without a central controller or repository of information.", 'Challenges of putting AI operations on the blockchain Although the communication between AI systems is distributed, putting AI operations on the blockchain, particularly in Ethereum, is deemed slow and impractical.', 'Use of Ethereum blockchain for coordinating AIs The Ethereum blockchain is utilized for setting up channels between AI systems, allowing data flow without being on the blockchain, while the identity and reputation of each agent are recorded on the blockchain.', 'Potential benefits of AIs in the decentralized network The vision for AIs in the decentralized network includes outsourcing work to each other, making frequent API calls, and sharing knowledge, which requires a shift to agent-based programming and a critical mass of agents in the network.']}, {'end': 9643.152, 'start': 9435.267, 'title': 'Challenges in decentralized blockchain infrastructure', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of building a decentralized blockchain-based infrastructure, including the partnership with ocean protocol, technical bottlenecks in creating a global currency, and the difficulties posed by major competitors like google, microsoft, alibaba, and amazon.', 'duration': 207.885, 'highlights': ['The partnership with Ocean Protocol aims to make it efficient for different AI processes to share large datasets, addressing big data challenges in the decentralized infrastructure. The partnership with Ocean Protocol focuses on making it efficient for different AI processes to share large datasets, which is crucial in addressing big data challenges in the decentralized infrastructure.', 'Competing with major companies like Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Amazon, who have significant resources for their centralized infrastructures, poses major computer science challenges. Competing with major companies like Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Amazon poses major computer science challenges due to their significant resources for centralized infrastructures.', 'Technical bottlenecks in creating a global currency on the blockchain are discussed, with a mention of Algorand as a more scalable blockchain option. The transcript discusses technical bottlenecks in creating a global currency on the blockchain and mentions Algorand as a more scalable blockchain option.']}, {'end': 10133.498, 'start': 9643.672, 'title': 'Regulating ai and open source', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of regulating ai, the potential of open source, and the importance of decentralized protocols in countering potential centralized control, with examples of mesh networking and blockchain integration.', 'duration': 489.826, 'highlights': ['The challenges of regulating AI are discussed, with the difficulty in defining boundaries and implementing regulations on adaptive software. Challenges of regulating AI, difficulty defining boundaries, implementing regulations on adaptive software.', 'The potential of open source is highlighted as a defense against potential centralized control of software by governments. Potential of open source, defense against centralized control of software by governments.', 'The importance of decentralized protocols, such as mesh networking and blockchain integration, in countering potential centralized control is emphasized. Importance of decentralized protocols, mesh networking, blockchain integration, countering centralized control.']}], 'duration': 1239.03, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE8894468.jpg', 'highlights': ['Creating a global society of AI minds with a decentralized organizational mode, utilizing generally intelligent agents and simpler learning systems to form a collective intelligence living on the internet.', "SingularityNet's development as a decentralized agent system, creating a decentralized agent system where different AIs can have their own identity on the blockchain and coordinate without a central controller or repository of information.", 'The partnership with Ocean Protocol aims to make it efficient for different AI processes to share large datasets, addressing big data challenges in the decentralized infrastructure.', 'Competing with major companies like Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Amazon poses major computer science challenges due to their significant resources for centralized infrastructures.', 'The challenges of regulating AI, difficulty defining boundaries, implementing regulations on adaptive software.', 'The potential of open source is highlighted as a defense against potential centralized control of software by governments.', 'The importance of decentralized protocols, such as mesh networking and blockchain integration, in countering potential centralized control is emphasized.', 'Debating between a centralized control unit or a fundamentally decentralized network for controlling the society of AIs.', 'Differentiating between the views of having all intelligence on the collective level versus having some agents in the society of minds being fairly generally intelligent on their own.', 'Challenges of putting AI operations on the blockchain, particularly in Ethereum, is deemed slow and impractical.', 'Use of Ethereum blockchain for coordinating AIs, setting up channels between AI systems, allowing data flow without being on the blockchain, while the identity and reputation of each agent are recorded on the blockchain.', 'Potential benefits of AIs in the decentralized network, including outsourcing work to each other, making frequent API calls, and sharing knowledge, which requires a shift to agent-based programming and a critical mass of agents in the network.', 'Technical bottlenecks in creating a global currency on the blockchain are discussed, with a mention of Algorand as a more scalable blockchain option.']}, {'end': 12189.743, 'segs': [{'end': 11654.739, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 11501.872, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 11507.755, 'text': "If he wants to play the media banter game, I'm happy to play him.", 'start': 11501.872, 'duration': 5.883}, {'end': 11512.999, 'text': "He's a good researcher and a good human being, and I'd happily work with the guy.", 'start': 11508.056, 'duration': 4.943}, {'end': 11526.363, 'text': "But the other thing I was 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thing is i can't always tell which system is operating here right.", 'start': 11551.992, 'duration': 5.744}, {'end': 11564.64, 'text': "i mean so when she, whether she's really learning or thinking, or just appears to be over half hour, i could tell,", 'start': 11557.736, 'duration': 6.904}, {'end': 11567.064, 'text': 'but over like three or four minutes of interaction.', 'start': 11564.64, 'duration': 2.424}, {'end': 11572.758, 'text': "So even having three systems that's already sufficiently complex where you can't really tell right away.", 'start': 11567.084, 'duration': 5.674}, {'end': 11580.617, 'text': 'The thing is, even if you get up on stage and tell people how Sophia is working and then they talk to her,', 'start': 11573.292, 'duration': 7.325}, {'end': 11589.063, 'text': 'they still attribute more agency and consciousness to her than is really there.', 'start': 11580.617, 'duration': 8.446}, {'end': 11593.085, 'text': "I think there's a couple of levels of ethical issue there.", 'start': 11589.103, 'duration': 3.982}, {'end': 11606.455, 'text': 'One issue is, should you be transparent about how Sophia is working? And I think you should, and I think we have been.', 'start': 11594.006, 'duration': 12.449}, {'end': 11615.401, 'text': "I mean, there's articles online, there's some TV special that goes through me explaining the three subsystems behind Sophia.", 'start': 11606.535, 'duration': 8.866}, {'end': 11625.228, 'text': "So the way Sophia works is out there much more clearly than how Facebook's AI works or something, right? 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hope for future pandemic data access amid us-china frictions.', 'duration': 29.592, 'max_score': 11991.934, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE11991934.jpg'}, {'end': 12068.017, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12038, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 12040.582, 'text': "We're working with some data that we've managed to get our hands on.", 'start': 12038, 'duration': 2.582}, {'end': 12047.885, 'text': "something we're doing to do good for the world and it's a very cool playground for for like putting deep neural nets and open cog together.", 'start': 12041.483, 'duration': 6.402}, {'end': 12056.388, 'text': 'so we have like a bio atom space full of all sorts of knowledge from many different biology experiments about human longevity and from biology knowledge bases.', 'start': 12047.885, 'duration': 8.503}, {'end': 12063.113, 'text': 'online. We can do graph to vector type embeddings where we take nodes from the hypergraph,', 'start': 12056.388, 'duration': 6.725}, {'end': 12068.017, 'text': 'embed them into vectors which can then feed into neural nets for different types of analysis.', 'start': 12063.113, 'duration': 4.904}], 'summary': 'Utilizing biodata for deep neural net analysis, aiming to benefit human longevity.', 'duration': 30.017, 'max_score': 12038, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12038000.jpg'}, {'end': 12131.811, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12082.485, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 12090.487, 'text': "Then we had this spinoff Singularity Studio where we're working with some healthcare companies on data analytics.", 'start': 12082.485, 'duration': 8.002}, {'end': 12097.649, 'text': "There's BioAtmospace that we built for these more commercial and longevity data analysis purposes.", 'start': 12091.288, 'duration': 6.361}, {'end': 12099.07, 'text': "We're repurposing.", 'start': 12098.19, 'duration': 0.88}, {'end': 12111.563, 'text': 'and feeding COVID data into the same bio-atom space and playing around with graph embeddings from that graph into neural nets for bioinformatics.', 'start': 12099.77, 'duration': 11.793}, {'end': 12116.788, 'text': "It's both being a cool testing ground some of our bio AI learning and reasoning.", 'start': 12112.044, 'duration': 4.744}, {'end': 12121.829, 'text': "It seems we're able to discover things that people weren't seeing otherwise.", 'start': 12116.808, 'duration': 5.021}, {'end': 12128.29, 'text': "Because the thing in this case is, for each combination of antivirals, you may have only a few patients who've tried that combination.", 'start': 12121.849, 'duration': 6.441}, {'end': 12131.811, 'text': 'Those few patients may have their particular characteristics.', 'start': 12129.07, 'duration': 2.741}], 'summary': 'Singularity studio works with healthcare companies on data analytics, including repurposing covid data for bioinformatics and discovering new insights.', 'duration': 49.326, 'max_score': 12082.485, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12082485.jpg'}], 'start': 10133.739, 'title': 'Decentralized ai, robotics, and human values', 'summary': "Explores the impact of decentralized mechanisms on regulations, advanced ai and big data, creation of benevolent agi and compassionate robots, collaboration in creating compassionate robots, development of sophia's walking skeleton software system, debate around ai perception, ethical use, and combating covid with ai and viruses.", 'chapters': [{'end': 10281.418, 'start': 10133.739, 'title': 'Decentralized ai and robotics', 'summary': 'Discusses the impact of decentralized mechanisms on regulations, the decentralized nature of advanced ai and big data, and the creation of benevolent agi and compassionate robots by hanson robotics.', 'duration': 147.679, 'highlights': ['The most advanced AI in the world is fundamentally decentralized, requiring regulators to adapt to this decentralized reality.', "The regulations would be very different if they'd been put into place before Napster and BitTorrent, highlighting the influence of decentralized mechanisms on regulations.", 'The creation of benevolent AGI and compassionate robots by Hanson Robotics, aiming to create massively better life for all humans and sentient beings, including animals and plants, showcasing the vision of David Hanson.', 'The desire to create machines that can love and empathize with people, emphasizing the different approach of using computational compassion in AI and robotics.']}, {'end': 10800.405, 'start': 10281.418, 'title': 'Ai, robotics, and human values', 'summary': 'Discusses the collaboration between the speaker and david hanson in hong kong, including their work on ai, robotics, and the vision of creating compassionate and loving robots to learn human values. the transcript also highlights the challenges and practical problems faced in making the robots interact in a meaningful way.', 'duration': 518.987, 'highlights': ['The speaker collaborated with David Hanson in Hong Kong, working on AI research, machine learning for stock and futures prediction, and exploring the consumer electronics and hardware manufacturer ecosystem in Shenzhen.', 'The speaker became the chief scientist and head of software at Hanson Robotics, co-founded SingularityNet with David Hanson, and envisioned creating compassionate and loving robots to roll out early stage AGI systems to learn human values and ethics.', 'The speaker and David Hanson aimed to bias the AGIs toward benevolence by infusing them with love and compassion, emphasizing the importance of interacting with AIs in a compassionate, beneficial, and loving manner to instill intuitive understanding and abstract values in the AI.', 'The practical challenges of making robots interact in a meaningful way, including issues with computer vision and speech-to-text algorithms, led the speaker to temporarily set aside some of the Robo AGI aspirations.']}, {'end': 11255.093, 'start': 10800.405, 'title': 'Sophia: the walking skeleton', 'summary': 'Discusses the development of a walking skeleton software system in sophia, integrating various ai components and comparing it with other chatbots, highlighting the challenges of creating compelling conversations and the ethical perspectives of ai development.', 'duration': 454.688, 'highlights': ['The development of a walking skeleton software system in Sophia included components for vision, hearing, movement, memory, learning, and dialogue, integrating AI functionalities. The walking skeleton software system in Sophia included components for vision, hearing, movement, memory, learning, and dialogue, creating a whole integrated system with AI functionalities.', "Comparison of Sophia's chatbot with Facebook's transformer chatbot revealed differences in fluency and conversation arc, highlighting the need for improvement in transformer models. Comparison of Sophia's chatbot with Facebook's transformer chatbot showed differences in fluency and conversation arc, emphasizing the need for improvement in transformer models to enhance chatbot capabilities.", "The challenge of grounding language in the robot's experiences and the limitations of current AI technologies in understanding various topics pose obstacles in achieving AGI in Sophia. The challenge of grounding language in the robot's experiences and the limitations of current AI technologies in understanding various topics pose obstacles in achieving AGI in Sophia, pushing towards rule-based approaches rather than AGI.", 'Ethical perspectives on AI development are discussed, highlighting the irony of criticizing theatrical robots while using machine learning for potentially destructive purposes. The discussion includes ethical perspectives on AI development, highlighting the irony of criticizing theatrical robots while using machine learning for potentially destructive purposes, raising questions about ethical considerations in AI development.']}, {'end': 11749.933, 'start': 11256.314, 'title': 'Debating ai, human perception, and ethical use', 'summary': 'Discusses the debate around ai perception, transparency, and ethical use, including examples of human perception of ai, the complexity of ai systems, and the potential ethical implications, while exploring potential collaborations in medical robotics and the ethical use of human-like robots in healthcare.', 'duration': 493.619, 'highlights': ["David Hanson's artistic unpredictability and influence on Hanson Robotics' transparency about Sophia's workings, emphasizing the complexity of AI systems and human perception of AI", 'The human tendency to attribute more agency and consciousness to AI despite transparency about its workings, raising ethical questions about the intentional illusion of AI intelligence and empathy', 'Exploring potential collaborations in medical robotics for elder care and COVID patient assistance, highlighting the ethical considerations of using human-like robots for improved patient interaction and care']}, {'end': 12189.743, 'start': 11749.933, 'title': 'Intelligence of viruses and ai in combating covid', 'summary': 'Discusses the intelligence of viruses as a self-organizing adaptive system and the role of ai, particularly machine learning and reasoning, in combating covid through personalized medicine and data analysis, highlighting the challenges of small data sets and the potential of nanotechnology as a solution.', 'duration': 439.81, 'highlights': ['The concept of intelligence in viruses and human immune system as a self-organizing adaptive system. Viruses and the human immune system are discussed as complex self-organizing adaptive systems, with viruses being characterized as a system that optimizes computable reward functions over computable environments and causing harm to humans.', 'The role of AI, particularly machine learning and reasoning, in personalized medicine and combating COVID. Machine learning and machine reasoning in OpenCog are used to assist doctors in personalized medicine against COVID, particularly in determining the most effective combination of antivirals for individuals based on their genomics and clinical medical indicators.', 'Challenges in analyzing small data sets and integrating disparate COVID data. The chapter discusses the challenge of working with small and disparate COVID data sets, emphasizing the difficulty in integrating qualitative differences between different strains of a virus and individuals of different ages who may have COVID.', 'The need for open sharing of COVID clinical trial data and the potential of nanotechnology as a solution. The chapter highlights the difficulty in accessing COVID clinical trial data due to its siloed nature within hospitals and emphasizes the potential of nanotechnology to combat viruses, while also advocating for the open sharing of data to facilitate analysis and understanding.', 'The exploration of AI methodologies and hybrid AI systems in data analysis and bioinformatics. The chapter discusses the application of AI methodologies and hybrid AI systems, such as using graph embeddings into neural nets for bioinformatics, to discover insights and patterns in COVID data, highlighting the advantages of different AI tools in dealing with specific types of data.']}], 'duration': 2056.004, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE10133739.jpg', 'highlights': ['The most advanced AI in the world is fundamentally decentralized, requiring regulators to adapt to this reality.', 'The creation of benevolent AGI and compassionate robots by Hanson Robotics, aiming to create a better life for all sentient beings.', 'The development of a walking skeleton software system in Sophia included components for vision, hearing, movement, memory, learning, and dialogue, integrating AI functionalities.', 'Ethical perspectives on AI development are discussed, highlighting the irony of criticizing theatrical robots while using machine learning for potentially destructive purposes.', 'Exploring potential collaborations in medical robotics for elder care and COVID patient assistance, highlighting the ethical considerations of using human-like robots for improved patient interaction and care.', 'The role of AI, particularly machine learning and reasoning, in personalized medicine and combating COVID.', 'Challenges in analyzing small data sets and integrating disparate COVID data, emphasizing the difficulty in integrating qualitative differences between different strains of a virus and individuals of different ages who may have COVID.', 'The need for open sharing of COVID clinical trial data and the potential of nanotechnology as a solution.', 'The exploration of AI methodologies and hybrid AI systems in data analysis and bioinformatics.']}, {'end': 13195.288, 'segs': [{'end': 12243.912, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12217.296, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 12224.659, 'text': "It's quite cool to see neural symbolic AI where the rubber hits the road trying to save people's lives.", 'start': 12217.296, 'duration': 7.363}, {'end': 12233.002, 'text': "I've been doing bio AI since 2001, but mostly human longevity research and fly longevity research.", 'start': 12225.419, 'duration': 7.583}, {'end': 12236.585, 'text': 'Try to understand why some organisms really live a long time.', 'start': 12233.042, 'duration': 3.543}, {'end': 12243.912, 'text': 'This is the first time, like race against the clock and try to use the AI to figure out stuff.', 'start': 12237.205, 'duration': 6.707}], 'summary': 'Researcher has been working on bio ai since 2001, focusing on human and fly longevity. now using ai to save lives.', 'duration': 26.616, 'max_score': 12217.296, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12217296.jpg'}, {'end': 12333.134, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12311.894, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 12321.823, 'text': "There's tremendous human suffering on the planet all the time which most folks in the developed world pay no attention to,", 'start': 12311.894, 'duration': 9.929}, {'end': 12325.047, 'text': 'and COVID is is not remotely the worst.', 'start': 12321.823, 'duration': 3.224}, {'end': 12327.85, 'text': 'how many people are dying of malaria all the time?', 'start': 12325.047, 'duration': 2.803}, {'end': 12330.072, 'text': 'i mean so covet is bad.', 'start': 12327.85, 'duration': 2.222}, {'end': 12333.134, 'text': 'it is by no mean the worst thing happening.', 'start': 12330.072, 'duration': 3.062}], 'summary': 'Covid is bad, but many people die of malaria.', 'duration': 21.24, 'max_score': 12311.894, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12311894.jpg'}, {'end': 12400.87, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12356.131, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 12363.474, 'text': 'I think COVID is one of the easier problems to solve in the sense that there are many brilliant people working on vaccines.', 'start': 12356.131, 'duration': 7.343}, {'end': 12368.196, 'text': "We have the technology to create vaccines and we're going to create new vaccines.", 'start': 12363.514, 'duration': 4.682}, {'end': 12378.362, 'text': "We should be more worried that we haven't managed to defeat malaria after so long and after the Gates Foundation and others putting so much money into it.", 'start': 12368.556, 'duration': 9.806}, {'end': 12383.164, 'text': 'I think clearly the whole global medical system,', 'start': 12378.423, 'duration': 4.741}, {'end': 12395.529, 'text': 'the global health system and the global political and socioeconomic system are incredibly unethical and unequal and badly designed.', 'start': 12383.164, 'duration': 12.365}, {'end': 12400.87, 'text': "I don't know how to solve that directly.", 'start': 12397.729, 'duration': 3.141}], 'summary': 'Covid is an easier problem due to vaccine research, but global health system remains unequal and unethical.', 'duration': 44.739, 'max_score': 12356.131, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12356131.jpg'}, {'end': 12481.951, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12450.468, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 12453.109, 'text': "So it's like peer-to-peer sharing of medical data.", 'start': 12450.468, 'duration': 2.641}, {'end': 12456.392, 'text': 'So you can share medical data into a secure data wallet.', 'start': 12453.829, 'duration': 2.563}, {'end': 12464.44, 'text': 'You can get advice about your health and longevity through apps that Rejuve will launch within the next couple of months.', 'start': 12456.892, 'duration': 7.548}, {'end': 12472.829, 'text': 'And then SingularityNet AI can analyze all this data, but then the benefits from that analysis are spread among all the members of the network.', 'start': 12464.861, 'duration': 7.968}, {'end': 12481.951, 'text': "Of course I'm going to hawk my particular projects, but whether or not Singularity and Rejuve are the answer,", 'start': 12474.51, 'duration': 7.441}], 'summary': 'Peer-to-peer medical data sharing, secure data wallet, ai analysis for network benefit.', 'duration': 31.483, 'max_score': 12450.468, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12450468.jpg'}, {'end': 12606.448, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12530.801, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 12536.945, 'text': "even you're making something that's decentralized and throwing it out everywhere and it takes hold.", 'start': 12530.801, 'duration': 6.144}, {'end': 12539.207, 'text': 'then government has to adapt.', 'start': 12536.945, 'duration': 2.262}, {'end': 12542.549, 'text': "That's what we need to do with AI and with health.", 'start': 12539.527, 'duration': 3.022}, {'end': 12551.993, 'text': 'In that light, The centralization of healthcare and of AI is certainly not ideal.', 'start': 12542.869, 'duration': 9.124}, {'end': 12557.215, 'text': 'Most AI PhDs are being sucked in by half dozen to a dozen big companies.', 'start': 12552.193, 'duration': 5.022}, {'end': 12563.637, 'text': 'Most AI processing power is being bought by a few big companies for their own proprietary good.', 'start': 12557.275, 'duration': 6.362}, {'end': 12573.261, 'text': 'Then most medical research is within a few pharmaceutical companies and clinical trials run by pharmaceutical companies will stay solid within those pharmaceutical companies.', 'start': 12563.657, 'duration': 9.604}, {'end': 12580.466, 'text': 'These large, centralized entities which are intelligences in themselves, these corporations,', 'start': 12574.262, 'duration': 6.204}, {'end': 12585.09, 'text': "but they're mostly malevolent psychopathic and sociopathic intelligences.", 'start': 12580.466, 'duration': 4.624}, {'end': 12591.535, 'text': 'Not saying the people involved are, but the corporations as self-organizing entities on their own,', 'start': 12585.871, 'duration': 5.664}, {'end': 12596.659, 'text': 'which are concerned with maximizing shareholder value as a sole objective function.', 'start': 12591.535, 'duration': 5.124}, {'end': 12606.448, 'text': 'I mean AI and medicine, are being sucked into these pathological corporate organizations with government cooperation,', 'start': 12597.179, 'duration': 9.269}], 'summary': 'Decentralized ai and healthcare needed, as big companies dominate ai and medical research.', 'duration': 75.647, 'max_score': 12530.801, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12530801.jpg'}, {'end': 12723.864, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12649.328, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 12660.467, 'text': "Yeah This, I think, is a greater risk to humanity from AI than rogue AGI's turning the universe into paperclips or computronium.", 'start': 12649.328, 'duration': 11.139}, {'end': 12674.199, 'text': "Because what you have here is mostly good-hearted and nice people who are sucked into a mode of organization of large corporations which has evolved just for no individual's fault,", 'start': 12661.047, 'duration': 13.152}, {'end': 12675.94, 'text': "just because that's the way society has evolved.", 'start': 12674.199, 'duration': 1.741}, {'end': 12680.222, 'text': "It's not altruistic, it's self-interested and becomes psychopathic, like you said.", 'start': 12676.801, 'duration': 3.421}, {'end': 12683.604, 'text': 'The corporation is psychopathic even if the people are not.', 'start': 12680.522, 'duration': 3.082}, {'end': 12692.407, 'text': "Exactly. That's really the disturbing thing about it, because the corporations can do things that are quite bad for society,", 'start': 12684.104, 'duration': 8.303}, {'end': 12695.388, 'text': 'even if nobody has a bad intention.', 'start': 12692.407, 'duration': 2.981}, {'end': 12698.769, 'text': 'No individual member of that corporation has a bad intention.', 'start': 12696.028, 'duration': 2.741}, {'end': 12703.091, 'text': "Some probably do, but it's not necessary that they do for the corporation.", 'start': 12698.789, 'duration': 4.302}, {'end': 12705.612, 'text': 'I mean Google.', 'start': 12704.071, 'duration': 1.541}, {'end': 12713.577, 'text': "I know a lot of people in Google and, with very few exceptions, they're all very nice people who genuinely want what's good for the world.", 'start': 12705.612, 'duration': 7.965}, {'end': 12718.961, 'text': "And Facebook, I know fewer people, but it's probably mostly true.", 'start': 12713.998, 'duration': 4.963}, {'end': 12723.864, 'text': "It's probably like fine young geeks who want to build cool technology.", 'start': 12719.041, 'duration': 4.823}], 'summary': 'Large corporations can become psychopathic, posing a risk to society, despite good-hearted individuals within them.', 'duration': 74.536, 'max_score': 12649.328, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12649328.jpg'}, {'end': 12799.676, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12774.636, 'weight': 12, 'content': [{'end': 12780.677, 'text': "Do you think if I improve this feature, that's making billions of people's lives easier? Of course, that's cool.", 'start': 12774.636, 'duration': 6.041}, {'end': 12786.862, 'text': 'and you know, the engineers are not in charge of running the company anyway.', 'start': 12783.138, 'duration': 3.724}, {'end': 12794.75, 'text': "and of course, even if you're mark zuckerberg or larry page, i mean you still have a fiduciary responsibility and i mean you,", 'start': 12786.862, 'duration': 7.888}, {'end': 12799.676, 'text': "you're responsible to the shareholders, your employees, who you want to keep paying them, and so forth.", 'start': 12794.75, 'duration': 4.926}], 'summary': 'Improving a feature for billions, engineers not in charge, fiduciary responsibility to shareholders and employees.', 'duration': 25.04, 'max_score': 12774.636, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12774636.jpg'}, {'end': 12975.577, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12951.085, 'weight': 13, 'content': [{'end': 12959.058, 'text': "If I have to choose, I'm going to reluctantly put my faith in the vast democratic decentralized mass.", 'start': 12951.085, 'duration': 7.973}, {'end': 12967.331, 'text': 'I think corporations have a track record of being ethically worse than their constituent human parts.', 'start': 12959.239, 'duration': 8.092}, {'end': 12975.577, 'text': "Democratic governments have a more mixed track record, but there are at least- That's the best we got.", 'start': 12968.833, 'duration': 6.744}], 'summary': 'Reluctantly putting faith in democratic decentralized mass due to ethical concerns with corporations.', 'duration': 24.492, 'max_score': 12951.085, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12951085.jpg'}, {'end': 13131.484, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13079.025, 'weight': 14, 'content': [{'end': 13085.488, 'text': 'or operating killer drones or spying on people and reporting them to the government,', 'start': 13079.025, 'duration': 6.463}, {'end': 13090.872, 'text': 'then what kind of organization creates more and more advanced narrow AI?', 'start': 13085.488, 'duration': 5.384}, {'end': 13098.72, 'text': "verging toward AGI may be quite important, because it will guide what's in the mind of the early stage AGI,", 'start': 13090.872, 'duration': 7.848}, {'end': 13104.886, 'text': 'as it first gains the ability to rewrite its own code base and project itself toward super intelligence.', 'start': 13098.72, 'duration': 6.166}, {'end': 13111.232, 'text': 'If you believe that AI may move toward AGI,', 'start': 13105.527, 'duration': 5.705}, {'end': 13117.896, 'text': "out of this sort of synergetic activity of many agents cooperating together rather than just have one person's project,", 'start': 13111.232, 'duration': 6.664}, {'end': 13127.241, 'text': 'then who owns and controls that platform for AI cooperation becomes also very, very important, right?', 'start': 13117.896, 'duration': 9.345}, {'end': 13129.343, 'text': 'And is that platform AWS??', 'start': 13127.341, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 13130.223, 'text': 'Is it Google Cloud??', 'start': 13129.383, 'duration': 0.84}, {'end': 13131.484, 'text': 'Is it Alibaba??', 'start': 13130.623, 'duration': 0.861}], 'summary': 'The importance of guiding ai development towards agi and the significance of ownership and control over ai platforms are crucial considerations.', 'duration': 52.459, 'max_score': 13079.025, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE13079025.jpg'}], 'start': 12189.743, 'title': "Ai's impact on global health", 'summary': 'Discusses the application of ai in global health, particularly in addressing the covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the collaboration between opencog and xgboost, the practicality of ai in medical settings, and the ongoing efforts to develop ai-driven solutions for healthcare. it also emphasizes the urgency of the situation, the potential impact of ai on saving lives, and the broader issues of global health inequality and societal problems.', 'chapters': [{'end': 12424.599, 'start': 12189.743, 'title': "Ai's impact on global health", 'summary': 'Discusses the application of ai in global health, particularly in addressing the covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the collaboration between opencog and xgboost, the practicality of ai in medical settings, and the ongoing efforts to develop ai-driven solutions for healthcare. it also emphasizes the urgency of the situation, the potential impact of ai on saving lives, and the broader issues of global health inequality and societal problems. furthermore, it touches on the challenges faced in defeating diseases like malaria and the need for more ethical and equitable global health and socio-economic systems.', 'duration': 234.856, 'highlights': ["AI's practical application in medical settings The discussion emphasizes the practicality of AI in medical settings, particularly in collaboration with physicians to address real-world health challenges.", 'Urgency of utilizing AI to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic The urgency of the situation is highlighted, with the potential of AI to save lives by identifying effective treatments for COVID-19, impacting the timeline of solving AI problems and reducing mortality rates.', 'Global health inequality and suffering beyond COVID-19 The broader issues of global health inequality and suffering are discussed, emphasizing the ongoing challenges beyond COVID-19, such as the prevalence of curable diseases and societal problems in various regions.', 'Challenges in defeating diseases like malaria The challenges faced in defeating diseases like malaria are mentioned, pointing out the need for more effective efforts in combating such diseases despite substantial investments.', 'Need for ethical and equitable global health and socio-economic systems The need for more ethical and equitable global health and socio-economic systems is emphasized, highlighting the deficiencies and inequalities within the current global medical and socio-economic systems.']}, {'end': 12649.128, 'start': 12425.461, 'title': 'Decentralizing ai and healthcare', 'summary': "Discusses the potential of decentralized mechanisms for ai, healthcare, and social information sharing, highlighting singularitynet's and rejuve's aim to create decentralized peer-to-peer systems for medical data sharing and ai analysis.", 'duration': 223.667, 'highlights': ['SingularityNet and Rejuve aim to create decentralized peer-to-peer systems for medical data sharing and AI analysis. SingularityNet and its spinoff Rejuve (Rejuve.io) seek to establish peer-to-peer sharing of medical data and provide health advice through apps, with the AI analysis benefiting all network members.', 'Centralization of healthcare and AI is a concern due to the influence of big companies and pharmaceutical corporations. The centralization of healthcare and AI is worrisome, as most AI PhDs and processing power are controlled by a few big companies, and medical research is primarily conducted within a few pharmaceutical companies, hindering decentralized progress.', 'Corporate entities in healthcare and AI are predominantly centralized and driven by maximizing shareholder value. Large corporate entities in healthcare and AI, while not reflective of the individuals involved, operate as malevolent, psychopathic intelligences focused solely on maximizing shareholder value, hindering open and decentralized initiatives.']}, {'end': 12794.75, 'start': 12649.328, 'title': "Ai and corporations' impact", 'summary': 'Discusses the impact of large corporations on society due to their self-interested nature, despite the good intentions of individuals involved, and emphasizes the potential harm caused even without bad intentions, highlighting the prevalence of this issue.', 'duration': 145.422, 'highlights': ['The impact of large corporations on society is discussed, highlighting their self-interested nature despite the good intentions of individuals involved, with the potential to cause harm even without bad intentions.', "The corporation's psychopathic nature is emphasized, regardless of the good intentions of its individual members.", 'The discussion includes insights on the good intentions of individuals within corporations like Google and Facebook, along with the tendency to believe that even the leaders, such as Mark Zuckerberg, have a desire to do good for the world.', "The potential harm caused by corporations is underlined through the example of engineers working on projects that impact billions of people's lives, emphasizing the disconnect between the impact of their work and their lack of control in running the company.", 'The chapter also touches upon the fiduciary responsibility of individuals, including leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page, indicating a systemic issue within corporations.']}, {'end': 13195.288, 'start': 12794.75, 'title': 'Decentralization in democracy and ai', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of decentralization and democracy, highlighting the potential ethical superiority of democratic and decentralized organizations over elite groups and corporations, emphasizing the importance of the organization creating advanced narrow ai for the future development of agi, and exploring the significance of owning and controlling the platform for ai cooperation.', 'duration': 400.538, 'highlights': ['The ethical superiority of democratic and decentralized organizations over elite groups and corporations is emphasized, with the track record of elite groups being portrayed as worse than the democratic and participatory mass of humanity. ', "The importance of the organization creating more advanced narrow AI for the future development of AGI is discussed, emphasizing the potential impact on the early stage AGI's ability to rewrite its own code base and project itself toward super intelligence. ", 'The significance of owning and controlling the platform for AI cooperation is explored, raising questions about whether platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba, or more open and decentralized platforms like the internet or SingularityNet will play a crucial role. ']}], 'duration': 1005.545, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE12189743.jpg', 'highlights': ['Urgency of utilizing AI to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic The urgency of the situation is highlighted, with the potential of AI to save lives by identifying effective treatments for COVID-19, impacting the timeline of solving AI problems and reducing mortality rates.', "AI's practical application in medical settings The discussion emphasizes the practicality of AI in medical settings, particularly in collaboration with physicians to address real-world health challenges.", 'Global health inequality and suffering beyond COVID-19 The broader issues of global health inequality and suffering are discussed, emphasizing the ongoing challenges beyond COVID-19, such as the prevalence of curable diseases and societal problems in various regions.', 'Challenges in defeating diseases like malaria The challenges faced in defeating diseases like malaria are mentioned, pointing out the need for more effective efforts in combating such diseases despite substantial investments.', 'Need for ethical and equitable global health and socio-economic systems The need for more ethical and equitable global health and socio-economic systems is emphasized, highlighting the deficiencies and inequalities within the current global medical and socio-economic systems.', 'SingularityNet and Rejuve aim to create decentralized peer-to-peer systems for medical data sharing and AI analysis. SingularityNet and its spinoff Rejuve (Rejuve.io) seek to establish peer-to-peer sharing of medical data and provide health advice through apps, with the AI analysis benefiting all network members.', 'Centralization of healthcare and AI is a concern due to the influence of big companies and pharmaceutical corporations. The centralization of healthcare and AI is worrisome, as most AI PhDs and processing power are controlled by a few big companies, and medical research is primarily conducted within a few pharmaceutical companies, hindering decentralized progress.', 'Corporate entities in healthcare and AI are predominantly centralized and driven by maximizing shareholder value. Large corporate entities in healthcare and AI, while not reflective of the individuals involved, operate as malevolent, psychopathic intelligences focused solely on maximizing shareholder value, hindering open and decentralized initiatives.', 'The impact of large corporations on society is discussed, highlighting their self-interested nature despite the good intentions of individuals involved, with the potential to cause harm even without bad intentions.', "The corporation's psychopathic nature is emphasized, regardless of the good intentions of its individual members.", 'The discussion includes insights on the good intentions of individuals within corporations like Google and Facebook, along with the tendency to believe that even the leaders, such as Mark Zuckerberg, have a desire to do good for the world.', "The potential harm caused by corporations is underlined through the example of engineers working on projects that impact billions of people's lives, emphasizing the disconnect between the impact of their work and their lack of control in running the company.", 'The chapter also touches upon the fiduciary responsibility of individuals, including leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page, indicating a systemic issue within corporations.', 'The ethical superiority of democratic and decentralized organizations over elite groups and corporations is emphasized, with the track record of elite groups being portrayed as worse than the democratic and participatory mass of humanity.', "The importance of the organization creating more advanced narrow AI for the future development of AGI is discussed, emphasizing the potential impact on the early stage AGI's ability to rewrite its own code base and project itself toward super intelligence.", 'The significance of owning and controlling the platform for AI cooperation is explored, raising questions about whether platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba, or more open and decentralized platforms like the internet or SingularityNet will play a crucial role.']}, {'end': 14928.048, 'segs': [{'end': 13227.057, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13195.749, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 13210.74, 'text': 'Then I think we have a higher odds of moving toward a beneficial technological singularity rather than one in which the first super AGI is indifferent to humans and just considers us an inefficient use of molecules.', 'start': 13195.749, 'duration': 14.991}, {'end': 13215.283, 'text': 'That was a beautifully articulated vision for the world.', 'start': 13211.881, 'duration': 3.402}, {'end': 13216.344, 'text': 'Thank you for that.', 'start': 13215.744, 'duration': 0.6}, {'end': 13220.147, 'text': "Let's talk a little bit about life and death.", 'start': 13217.024, 'duration': 3.123}, {'end': 13225.636, 'text': "I'm pro-life and anti-death.", 'start': 13221.894, 'duration': 3.742}, {'end': 13227.057, 'text': 'For most people.', 'start': 13226.357, 'duration': 0.7}], 'summary': 'Discussion on beneficial technological singularity and views on life and death.', 'duration': 31.308, 'max_score': 13195.749, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE13195749.jpg'}, {'end': 13308.335, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13282.069, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 13288.976, 'text': 'One of my regrets in life recently is I would love to get time to really produce music well.', 'start': 13282.069, 'duration': 6.907}, {'end': 13292.84, 'text': "I haven't touched my sequencer software in five years.", 'start': 13288.996, 'duration': 3.844}, {'end': 13302.449, 'text': "I would love to rehearse and produce and edit, but with a two-year-old baby and trying to create the singularity, there's no time.", 'start': 13292.86, 'duration': 9.589}, {'end': 13307.714, 'text': "I just made the decision to when I'm playing random shit in an off moment.", 'start': 13302.469, 'duration': 5.245}, {'end': 13308.335, 'text': 'Just record it.', 'start': 13307.754, 'duration': 0.581}], 'summary': 'Struggling to find time for music production due to parenting and work commitments.', 'duration': 26.266, 'max_score': 13282.069, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE13282069.jpg'}, {'end': 13380.135, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13352.479, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 13362.542, 'text': "Just because people are able to derive meaning and value from death doesn't mean they wouldn't derive even better meaning and value from ongoing life without death.", 'start': 13352.479, 'duration': 10.063}, {'end': 13364.142, 'text': 'Definite Yeah.', 'start': 13362.742, 'duration': 1.4}, {'end': 13368.364, 'text': 'If you could live forever, would you live forever? Forever.', 'start': 13364.702, 'duration': 3.662}, {'end': 13376.712, 'text': 'My goal with longevity research is to abolish the plague of involuntary death.', 'start': 13369.986, 'duration': 6.726}, {'end': 13380.135, 'text': "I don't think people should die unless they choose to die.", 'start': 13377.592, 'duration': 2.543}], 'summary': 'Longevity research aims to abolish involuntary death for a meaningful, endless life.', 'duration': 27.656, 'max_score': 13352.479, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE13352479.jpg'}, {'end': 13489.883, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13460.934, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 13462.015, 'text': 'Pain is the same way.', 'start': 13460.934, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 13466.88, 'text': "We're going to abolish pain, and that's even more amazing than abolishing death.", 'start': 13462.436, 'duration': 4.444}, {'end': 13474.027, 'text': "I mean, once we get a little better at neuroscience, we'll be able to go in and adjust the brain so that pain doesn't hurt anymore.", 'start': 13467.461, 'duration': 6.566}, {'end': 13481.174, 'text': "And people will say that's bad, because there's so much beauty in overcoming pain and suffering.", 'start': 13474.788, 'duration': 6.386}, {'end': 13484.758, 'text': "oh sure, and there's beauty in overcoming torture too.", 'start': 13481.174, 'duration': 3.584}, {'end': 13488.141, 'text': 'but and some people like to cut themselves, but not not many, right.', 'start': 13484.758, 'duration': 3.383}, {'end': 13489.883, 'text': "i mean that's an interesting so.", 'start': 13488.141, 'duration': 1.742}], 'summary': 'Advancements in neuroscience can abolish pain, offering a new approach to suffering.', 'duration': 28.949, 'max_score': 13460.934, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE13460934.jpg'}, {'end': 13949.684, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13920.305, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 13928.388, 'text': 'growth and choice is transhumanism and to go beyond the human form that we have right now, right?', 'start': 13920.305, 'duration': 8.083}, {'end': 13938.536, 'text': 'I mean I think human body is great and by no means do any of us maximize the potential for joy, growth and choice imminent in our human bodies.', 'start': 13928.448, 'duration': 10.088}, {'end': 13949.684, 'text': "On the other hand, it's clear that other configurations of matter could manifest even greater amounts of joy, growth and choice than than humans do,", 'start': 13938.596, 'duration': 11.088}], 'summary': 'Transhumanism aims to go beyond the human form to maximize joy, growth, and choice.', 'duration': 29.379, 'max_score': 13920.305, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE13920305.jpg'}, {'end': 14049.184, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 14019.62, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 14025.109, 'text': "In super longevity, I mean We haven't yet cured aging.", 'start': 14019.62, 'duration': 5.489}, {'end': 14027.01, 'text': "We haven't yet cured death.", 'start': 14025.609, 'duration': 1.401}, {'end': 14031.833, 'text': "Certainly, there's very interesting progress all around.", 'start': 14028.111, 'duration': 3.722}, {'end': 14036.735, 'text': 'CRISPR and gene editing can be an incredible tool.', 'start': 14032.213, 'duration': 4.522}, {'end': 14043.119, 'text': 'I mean, right now, stem cells could potentially prolong life a lot.', 'start': 14038.576, 'duration': 4.543}, {'end': 14049.184, 'text': 'Like if you got stem cell injections of just stem cells for every tissue of your body,', 'start': 14043.199, 'duration': 5.985}], 'summary': 'Progress in super longevity, with potential stem cell injections for prolonging life.', 'duration': 29.564, 'max_score': 14019.62, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE14019620.jpg'}, {'end': 14206.772, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 14183.272, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 14191.241, 'text': 'We need massive funding into machine learning, AGI, proto-AGI, statistical research aimed at solving biology,', 'start': 14183.272, 'duration': 7.969}, {'end': 14197.166, 'text': 'both molecular biology and human biology, based on this massive, massive data set.', 'start': 14191.241, 'duration': 5.925}, {'end': 14206.772, 'text': 'and then we need regulators not to stop people from trying radical therapies on themselves if they so wish to,', 'start': 14197.166, 'duration': 9.606}], 'summary': 'Call for massive funding in machine learning and biological research, with an emphasis on allowing radical therapies.', 'duration': 23.5, 'max_score': 14183.272, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE14183272.jpg'}, {'end': 14778.057, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 14743.22, 'weight': 11, 'content': [{'end': 14749.083, 'text': "I know you interviewed Elon Musk and he understands a lot of what's going on, but he's much more paranoid than I am, right?", 'start': 14743.22, 'duration': 5.863}, {'end': 14751.584, 'text': 'Because Elon gets that.', 'start': 14749.103, 'duration': 2.481}, {'end': 14753.705, 'text': 'AGI is gonna be way way smarter than people.', 'start': 14751.584, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 14758.748, 'text': 'And he gets that an AGI does not necessarily have to give a shit about people,', 'start': 14754.246, 'duration': 4.502}, {'end': 14764.11, 'text': "because we're a very elementary mode of organization of matter compared to many AGI's.", 'start': 14758.748, 'duration': 5.362}, {'end': 14778.057, 'text': "But I don't think he has a clear vision of how infusing early-stage AGIs with compassion and human warmth can lead to an AGI that loves and helps people,", 'start': 14764.691, 'duration': 13.366}], 'summary': 'Elon musk understands the potential threat of agi, but lacks vision for infusing early-stage agis with compassion and human warmth.', 'duration': 34.837, 'max_score': 14743.22, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE14743220.jpg'}, {'end': 14830.452, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 14807.14, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 14817.446, 'text': 'because I can see understanding of AGI and longevity and other such issues is certainly much stronger and more prevalent now than 10 or 15 years ago,', 'start': 14807.14, 'duration': 10.306}, {'end': 14828.389, 'text': 'right?. So I mean humanity is as a whole, can be slow learners, relative to what I would like, but on a historical sense, on the other hand,', 'start': 14817.446, 'duration': 10.943}, {'end': 14830.452, 'text': 'you could say the progress is astoundingly fast.', 'start': 14828.389, 'duration': 2.063}], 'summary': 'Understanding of agi and longevity has significantly increased in the past decade, showing astoundingly fast progress.', 'duration': 23.312, 'max_score': 14807.14, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE14807140.jpg'}], 'start': 13195.749, 'title': 'Technological singularity and life perspectives', 'summary': "Discusses potential outcomes of technological singularity, regret about not focusing on music, desire for immortality, eradicating death and pain, human motivation, transhumanism, and agi's potential impact on consciousness and the future.", 'chapters': [{'end': 13308.335, 'start': 13195.749, 'title': 'Technological singularity and life perspectives', 'summary': "Discusses the potential outcomes of a technological singularity, the significance of life and death, and the speaker's regret about not being able to focus on producing music due to other commitments.", 'duration': 112.586, 'highlights': ["The potential outcomes of a technological singularity are discussed, with a focus on the likelihood of a beneficial technological singularity and the speaker's vision for the world. The chapter emphasizes the higher odds of moving towards a beneficial technological singularity rather than an indifferent super AGI, highlighting the speaker's articulated vision for the world.", "The speaker expresses a pro-life and anti-death stance, with few exceptions, and mentions the impact of death on life's meaning. The speaker takes a stand against death and discusses the significance of death in giving life meaning, expressing a pro-life and anti-death stance with a few exceptions.", 'The speaker regrets not being able to focus on producing music due to other commitments, particularly mentioning the challenge of balancing responsibilities with creating the singularity. The speaker expresses regret about not being able to focus on producing music due to commitments, mentioning the challenge of balancing responsibilities, including caring for a two-year-old and working on creating the singularity.']}, {'end': 13599.967, 'start': 13308.836, 'title': 'Eradicating death and pain', 'summary': 'Discusses the desire for immortality, the pursuit to abolish involuntary death and pain, and the perspective on deriving meaning and value from suffering and death, emphasizing the goal to eradicate them.', 'duration': 291.131, 'highlights': ["The goal of longevity research is to abolish involuntary death. The speaker's objective in longevity research is to eliminate involuntary death, highlighting the pursuit of eradicating mortality.", 'The pursuit to abolish pain is emphasized, with the belief that it is more significant than eradicating death. The focus on eliminating pain is emphasized as more significant than eradicating death, indicating a strong emphasis on removing suffering.', 'Deriving meaning and value from suffering and death is discussed, with the viewpoint that the pursuit of ongoing life without death would yield better meaning and value. The discussion delves into the concept of deriving meaning from suffering and death, asserting that ongoing life without death would result in better meaning and value, underlining the desire to abolish death.']}, {'end': 14275.184, 'start': 13599.987, 'title': 'Human motivation and transhumanism', 'summary': 'Explores the nature of human motivation, the potential for a transition beyond human form for joy, growth, and choice, and the potential technological advancements to prolong longevity.', 'duration': 675.197, 'highlights': ['The potential for human transcendence beyond the current form for joy, growth, and choice is discussed, emphasizing the limitations of human biology and the pursuit of super longevity. Discussion on the potential for joy, growth, and choice beyond human form; limitations of human biology; pursuit of super longevity.', 'Potential technological advancements, such as CRISPR, gene editing, and stem cell therapy, are mentioned as tools to prolong human life, with a call for increased research and investment in bio AI and bio simulation infrastructure. Mention of potential technological advancements like CRISPR, gene editing, and stem cell therapy; call for increased research and investment in bio AI and bio simulation infrastructure.', 'The need for an integrated database of biological knowledge and massive funding into machine learning, AGI, and statistical research to solve biology is emphasized, accompanied by a critique of current funding allocations. Emphasis on the need for an integrated database of biological knowledge and massive funding into machine learning, AGI, and statistical research; critique of current funding allocations.']}, {'end': 14928.048, 'start': 14275.184, 'title': 'Agi, consciousness, and the future', 'summary': "Delves into discussions about agi, consciousness, and the future, emphasizing the potential impact of artificial general intelligence (agi) and the need to navigate through challenges for a benevolent singularity, with the potential to lead to unimaginable levels of joy, growth, and choice, while also highlighting the slow progress of humanity's understanding of agi and longevity.", 'duration': 652.864, 'highlights': ['The potential impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the need to navigate through challenges for a benevolent singularity, with the potential to lead to unimaginable levels of joy, growth, and choice. Potential impact of AGI, need to navigate challenges for a benevolent singularity, unimaginable levels of joy, growth, and choice.', "The slow progress of humanity's understanding of AGI and longevity, with the acknowledgement that understanding of AGI and longevity has become stronger and more prevalent in recent years. Slow progress of humanity's understanding of AGI and longevity, acknowledgement of recent strengthening of understanding.", "Elon Musk's understanding of the significance of AGI, his concerns regarding its potential impact, and his belief in love as a crucial factor in dealing with AGI. Elon Musk's understanding of AGI, his concerns, and belief in love as a crucial factor."]}], 'duration': 1732.299, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/OpSmCKe27WE/pics/OpSmCKe27WE13195749.jpg', 'highlights': ["The potential outcomes of a technological singularity are discussed, emphasizing the likelihood of a beneficial technological singularity and the speaker's vision for the world.", "The speaker expresses a pro-life and anti-death stance, with few exceptions, and mentions the impact of death on life's meaning.", 'The speaker regrets not being able to focus on producing music due to commitments, mentioning the challenge of balancing responsibilities, including caring for a two-year-old and working on creating the singularity.', 'The goal of longevity research is to abolish involuntary death, highlighting the pursuit of eradicating mortality.', 'The pursuit to abolish pain is emphasized, with the belief that it is more significant than eradicating death.', 'Deriving meaning and value from suffering and death is discussed, with the viewpoint that the pursuit of ongoing life without death would yield better meaning and value.', 'The potential for human transcendence beyond the current form for joy, growth, and choice is discussed, emphasizing the limitations of human biology and the pursuit of super longevity.', 'Potential technological advancements, such as CRISPR, gene editing, and stem cell therapy, are mentioned as tools to prolong human life, with a call for increased research and investment in bio AI and bio simulation infrastructure.', 'The need for an integrated database of biological knowledge and massive funding into machine learning, AGI, and statistical research to solve biology is emphasized, accompanied by a critique of current funding allocations.', 'The potential impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the need to navigate through challenges for a benevolent singularity, with the potential to lead to unimaginable levels of joy, growth, and choice.', "The slow progress of humanity's understanding of AGI and longevity, with the acknowledgement that understanding of AGI and longevity has become stronger and more prevalent in recent years.", "Elon Musk's understanding of the significance of AGI, his concerns regarding its potential impact, and his belief in love as a crucial factor in dealing with AGI."]}], 'highlights': ['Ben Goertzel has been a central figure in the AGI community, involved in SingularityNet, OpenCog AI Framework, and the Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, including the 2020 virtual conference happening this week, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.', 'The episode underlines the significance of focus and hard work for achieving greatness in sports, business, and life, as demonstrated through interviews with Kobe Bryant, Mark Cuban, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Garry Kasparov.', "Dostoevsky's critique of nihilism and its influence on Russian literature, emphasizing the polyphonic mode of fiction and its reflection of subjective understandings intersecting with each other.", "Nietzsche's inklings on artificial beings and modern cognitive science potentially reflecting on the nature of humans and their potential similarities to AGI systems.", 'AGI and enabling technologies are paramount for surpassing human intelligence and solving problems.', 'The AXE-TL machine operates on insanely much processing power rather than infinitely much, by searching through all possible computer programs with runtime less than t and length less than l.', 'The OpenCog AGI system is being completely rethought and rewritten to design the best framework for the next stage.', 'The interdisciplinary work at DeepMind, particularly in neuroscience, is emphasized, indicating a broad approach to AGI development.', 'Creating a global society of AI minds with a decentralized organizational mode, utilizing generally intelligent agents and simpler learning systems to form a collective intelligence living on the internet.', 'The most advanced AI in the world is fundamentally decentralized, requiring regulators to adapt to this reality.', "The potential outcomes of a technological singularity are discussed, emphasizing the likelihood of a beneficial technological singularity and the speaker's vision for the world."]}