Superintelligence and the Six Singularities, with Dr. Daniel Hulme

Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) could be realized in our lifetime... some even think within a few years. Today's brilliant guest, Dr. Daniel Hulme, details the six major ways society could be overhauled by ASI.

More on Daniel:

• Chief A.I. Officer at marketing giant WPP.

• CEO of A.I. consulting-services company Satalia.

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence at one of the world's top A.I.-research universities, UCL.

• Co-founder of Faculty and speaker at Singularity University.

• Holds an Eng.D. in computational complexity from UCL.

Today’s episode should be of interest to everyone. In it, Daniel details:

• How and when Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) may arise.

• The six types of Singularity ASI is expected to unleash.

• Neuromorphic computing.

• How to align A.I. interests with human interests.

• Ways human work could be dramatically automated not just in the future… but this very day.

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The (Short) Path to Artificial General Intelligence, with Dr. Ben Goertzel

Today, the luminary Dr. Ben Goertzel details how we could realize Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in 3-7 years, why he's optimistic about the Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) this would trigger, and what post-Singularity society could be like.

Dr. Goertzel:
• Is CEO of SingularityNET, a decentralized open market for A.I. models that aims to bring about AGI and thus the singularity that would transform society beyond all recognition.
• Has been Chairman of The AGI Society for 14 years.
• Has been Chairman of the foundation behind OpenCog — an open-source AGI framework — for 16 years.
• Was previously Chief Scientist at Hanson Robotics Limited, the company behind Sophia, the world’s most recognizable humanoid robot.
• Holds a PhD in mathematics from Temple University and held tenure-track professorships prior to transitioning to industry.

Today’s episode has parts that are relatively technical, but much of the episode will appeal to anyone who wants to understand how AGI — a machine that has all of the cognitive capabilities of a human — could be brought about and the world-changing impact that would have.

In the episode, Ben details: 
• The specific approaches that could be integrated with deep learning to realize, in his view, AGI in as few as 3-7 years.
• Why the development of AGI would near-instantly trigger the development of ASI — a machine with intellectual capabilities far beyond humans’.
• Why, despite triggering the singularity — beyond which we cannot make confident predictions about the future — he’s optimistic that AGI will be a positive development for humankind.
• The connections between self-awareness, consciousness and the ASI of the future.
• With admittedly wide error bars, what a society that includes ASI may look like.

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AGI: The Apocalypse Machine

Jeremie Harris's work on A.I. could dramatically alter your perspective on the field of data science and the bewildering — perhaps downright frightening — impact you and A.I. could make together on the world.

Jeremie:
• Recently co-founded Mercurius, an A.I. safety company.
• Has briefed senior political and policy leaders around the world on long-term risks from A.I., including senior members of the U.K. Cabinet Office, the Canadian Cabinet, as well as the U.S. Departments of State, Homeland Security and Defense.
• Is Host of the excellent Towards Data Science podcast.
• He previously co-founded SharpestMinds, a Y Combinator-backed mentorship marketplace for data scientists.
• He proudly dropped out of his quantum mechanics PhD to found SharpestMinds.
• He hold a Master’s in biological physics from the University of Toronto.

In this episode, Jeremie details:
• What Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is
• How the development of AGI could happen in our lifetime and could present an existential risk to humans, perhaps even to all life on the planet as we know it.
• How, alternatively, if engineered properly, AGI could herald a moment called the singularity that brings with it a level of prosperity that is not even imaginable today.
• What it takes to become an AI safety expert yourself in order to help align AGI with benevolent human goals
• His forthcoming book on quantum mechanics
• Why almost nobody should do a PhD

Today’s episode is deep and intense, but as usual it does still have a lot of laughs, and it should appeal broadly, no matter whether you’re a technical data science expert already or not.

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