Devs (2020) - All Scenes Explaining Technology (Part 12) in the TV mini-series, Devs (2020) directed and produced by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation) such as discussions on quantum mechanics ( including many worlds theory and pilot wave theory), quantum computing and implications of these technologies. Watch the full series from FX on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/fx-on-hulu Devs (2020): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/ Thank you for the ongoing support from our members this month: Alina H. Conrad B. David M. Jade C. Jan M. Jun Y. Nathan O. Oleg P. Patrick C. Patrick F. Stacy G. Yee S. Support the channel by liking this video and subscribing! You can becoming a member of Transhumanism Australia at: https://www.joinit.org/o/transhumanism-australia https://www.transhumanism.com.au Socials: Twitter https://twitter.com/transhumanismAU Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/transhumanismau Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/transhumanismaustralia Instagram https://www.instagram.com/transhumanismau ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEVnDxqql64

Q: So, how exactly are you placing this ‘bet’ at Keen right now? John: It’s research and development, where I’ve got a handful of ideas that are not the mainstream. I follow most of what the mainstream is doing because it’s fabulous, it’s useful. Right now I’m following up on some research papers from last year that I think have more utility for the way I want to apply them than what their original authors were looking at. There’s valuable things that happened earlier that people aren’t necessarily aware of. There’s some work from like the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s that I actually think might be interesting, because a lot of things happened back then that didn’t pan out, just because they didn’t have enough scale. They were trying to do this on one-megahertz computers, not clusters of GPUs. And there is this kind of groupthink I mentioned that is really clear, if you look at it, about all these brilliant researchers—they all have similar backgrounds, and they’re all kind of swimming in the same direction. So, there’s a few of these old things back there that I think may be useful. So right now, I’m building experiments, I’m testing things, I’m trying to marry together some of these fields that are distinct, that have what I feel are pieces of the AGI algorithm. But most of what I do is I run simulations through watching lots of television and playing various video games. And I think that combination of, ‘Here’s how you perceive and internalize a model of the world, and here’s how you act in it with agency in some of these situations,’ I still don’t know how they come together. But I think there are keys there. I think I have my arms around the scope of the problems that need to be solved, and how to push things together. I still think there’s a half dozen insights that need to happen, but I’ve got a couple of things that are plausible insights that might turn out to be relevant. And one of the things that I trained myself to do a few decades ago is pulling ideas out and pursuing them in a way where I’m excited about them, knowing that most of them don’t pan out in the end. Much earlier in my career, when I’d have a really bright idea that didn’t work out, I was crushed afterwards. But eventually I got to the point where I’m really good at just shoveling ideas through my processing and shooting them down, almost making it a game to say, ‘How quickly can I bust my own idea, rather than protecting it as a pet idea?’ So, I’ve got a few of these candidates right now that I’m in the process of exploring and attacking. But it’s going to be these abstract ideas and techniques and ways to apply things that are similar to the way deep learning is done right now. So, I’m pushing off scaling it out, because there are a bunch of companies now saying, ‘We need to go raise $100 million, $200 million, because we need to have a warehouse full of GPUs.’ And that’s one path to value, and there’s a little bit of a push toward that. But I’m very much pushing toward saying, ‘No, I want to figure out these six important things before I go waste $100 million of someone’s money.’ I’m actually not spending much money right now. I raised $20 million, but I’m thinking that this is a decade-long task where I don’t want to burn through $20 million in the next two years, then raise another series to get another couple hundred million dollars, because I don’t actually think that’s the smart way to go about things. My hope is that I can spend several years working through some of these things, building small things that I think point in the right directions. And then, throw some scale at it and push an entire lifetime of information and experience through this and see if it comes out with something that shows that spark. Because again, I don’t expect how to pop out of this. What I keep saying is that as soon as you’re at the point where you have the equivalent of a toddler—something that is a being, it’s conscious, it’s not Einstein, it can’t even do multiplication—if you’ve got a creature that can learn, you can interact with and teach it things on some level. And at that point you can deploy an army of engineers, developmental psychologists, and scientists to study things. Because we don’t have that yet, we don’t have the ability to simulate something that’s a being like that. There are tricks and techniques and strategies that the brain is doing that none of our existing models do. But getting to that point doesn’t look out of reach to me. Source: https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/ Made using ElevenLabs and D-ID ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1KXIRIsGE

Intro - Peter Xing, Transhumanism Australia & KPMG Australia Soft Transhumanism - A Kinder, Gentler Future - Andrew Despi, Akin A.I. AI & Ethics and Semantic Enginnering - Anne Cregan, Surround Australia SingularityU Australia Summit Hear more on emerging tech at the SingularityU Australia Summit in Sydney on 22-23 October, 2019: https://singularityuaustraliasummit.com/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFBFMz8ImAo

Lincoln Cannon: Mormon Transhumanism ft. Stefan, Jonathan and Peter | Transhuman Coin Podcast #1 Stefan van der Wel, Jonathan Woods and Peter Xing at Transhuman Coin interview Lincoln Cannon, founder of Mormon Transhumanist Association. Lincoln is a technologist and philosopher, and leading advocate of Mormon Transhumanism. He writes and presents about technological evolution and postsecular religion. Lincoln writes and presents about technological evolution and postsecular religion. He esteems religion as a powerful social technology that, like all technology, presents both risks and opportunities. And he envisions the ethical use of technology empowering humanity to attain unprecedented magnitudes of intelligence, vitality, and compassion. Lincoln is a founder of the Mormon Transhumanist Association and the Christian Transhumanist Association, the world’s largest advocacy networks for ethical use of technology and religion to enhance human abilities. He also formulated the New God Argument, a logical argument for faith in God that is popular among religious Transhumanists. Lincoln is a veteran in the business of technology. He has worked for large enterprises, including Ancestry, Merit Medical, Novell, Symantec, and WordPerfect. He has worked at startups, including Discerner and The World Table. And he has worked with investment firms, including the OS Fund. He is presently CEO at Thrivous, the human enhancement company. Lincoln received formal education in business and the humanities. He holds an MBA and graduated top tier from the Marriott School of Business. He holds a degree in philosophy and graduated with honors from Brigham Young University. He is also an alumnus of the Exponential Medicine executive program at Singularity University. Lincoln is a lifelong computer programmer. He learned to code as a child before the Internet. He eventually taught himself web development, including Java and the .NET framework. And as computers and the Internet have continued to evolve, his projects have expanded to mobile web, cloud platforms, social media, and blockchain. What is Transhuman Coin? Transhuman Coin is a token dedicated to the transhumanism movement. Our mission is to invest in the future of humanity by funding transhuman projects that extend our healthy lifespan, enhance our intelligence, and improve our wellbeing. Join our discussions at t.me/buytranshumancoin Transhuman Coin was announced to the world in late 2021.Every transaction is allocated to fund science and technology initiatives. With every purchase, sale, or transfer of a Transhuman Coin: 2% of the transacted value is sent directly to its Liquidity Pool to enable more transactions with Transhuman Coin 2% is redistributed to holders, including the Transhuman Fund Walle ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guewvy3sik8