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Universal Principles of Intelligence (Across Humans and Machines), with Prof. Blake Richards

Added on November 7, 2023 by Jon Krohn.

Today's episode is wild! The exceptionally lucid Prof. Blake Richards will blow your mind on what intelligence is, why the "AGI" concept isn't real, why AI doesn't pose an existential risk to humans, and how AI could soon directly update our thoughts.

Blake: 
• Is Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the revered McGill University in Montreal. 
• Is a Core Faculty Member at Mila, one of the world’s most prestigious A.I. research labs, which is also in Montreal. 
• His lab investigates universal principles of intelligence that apply to both natural and artificial agents and he has received a number of major awards for his research. 
• He obtained his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Oxford and his Bachelor’s in cognitive science and AI from the University of Toronto.

Today’s episode contains tons of content that will be fascinating for anyone. A few topics near the end, however, will probably appeal primarily to folks who have a grasp of fundamental machine learning concepts like cost functions and gradient descent.

In this episode, Blake details: 
• What intelligence is.
• Why he doesn’t believe in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
• Why he’s skeptical about existential risks from A.I.
• The many ways that A.I. research informs our understanding of how the human brain works. 
• How, in the future, A.I. could practically and directly influence your thoughts and behaviors through brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

In Data Science, SuperDataScience, YouTube, Podcast Tags AGI, BCI, AI
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