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"The human part of human connection is overstated!" - Anish Acharya

" Most people in AI and in philosophy would hold the materialism view" - Max Bennett

" A key difference between how mammal brains are simulating and modeling the world and how existing AI systems are doing it...." - Max Bennet

"If we create an AI system with a brain that works woefully differently than humans, then we're going to perhaps need very different mechanisms..." - Max Bennett

"I think it's likely, in the near term, at least we're going to see meaningful divergence between the way that our AI systems work in the way biological brains work."- Max Bennett

In this podcast, we dive into the fascinating world of brain-computer interfaces with Dean W. Ball. We learn about the latest technologies, from non-invasive EEG and ultrasound stimulation to invasive Neuralink implants. We also discover the state-of-art tools, technical challenges, and the big questions around thought dimensionality, ethical considerations, and…

In this episode from @AutopilotwithWillSummerlin Sergiy Nesterenko, founder of Quilter (backed by Benchmark), discusses designing PCB circuitboards end-to-end using reinforcement learning. "Autopilot" host Will Summerlin and Nesterenko cover how current PCB boards are designed and how Quilter’s tech stack enables faster board design, what better circuit boards enable in the…

Google DeepMind researchers Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao discuss their latest breakthroughs in AI robotics. Including models that enable robots to understand novel objects, learn from human demonstrations, and operate under ethical constraints. The conversation covers six groundbreaking papers that showcase rapid progress towards general-purpose robotics. SPONSORS: The Brave search…

" I'm really interested in some of the more emergent stuff. Like, if you look at companies like MidJourney, the idea of democratizing capabilities that people didn't have before..." - Sarah Guo

"These models now perform better than many doctors on standardized medical exams or other types of tests." - Elad Gil

"That first wave of AI was an incumbent wave...." - Elad Gil

"When I look at social products today, people are basically constantly trying to rebuild Twitter for some reason." - Elad Gil

"Eventually we're going to call all these things, your Highness, as they sort of take over the world." - Elad Gil

In this episode, we delve into the intricate world of AI inference with cofounders of Firework AI. Discover the strategies behind optimizing AI performance, the importance of balancing latency and throughput, and the nuances of different AI architectures from GPT-3 to Stable Diffusion. Learn about their partnership with Stability AI,…

"Developmental biology offers no sharp line during this process where a lightning bolt says, okay, now you've gone from physics to mind. There is nothing like that. The whole process is smooth and continuous." Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyGG9xXpPA

"Emergence is basically a kind of expression of surprise in an observer. If you knew something was going to happen, you don't think it's emergent. If you were smart enough to predict that in advance from knowing the rules about the parts, then to you it's not emergent. To somebody…

"Imagine if we had a sense organ for our own body chemistry, let's say inside our blood vessels, we had something like a tongue that could feel, 20 parameters of our physiology. We would immediately recognize our liver and our kidneys as intelligent beings that navigate that space. They have…

"You might think your job is to populate the cosmos with as many minds as possible, but if you're not able to vouch for the kind of life they're going to have, that's a mistake." Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyGG9xXpPA

"One thing that's super confusing nowadays is that, in the past, you were guaranteed that anything that talks shares your agential properties. That's no longer true." Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyGG9xXpPA

Prof Mike Levin on the urgent need to develop a science of where novel goals come from. He is one of the most accomplished and interesting thinkers in the world today! Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyGG9xXpPA

In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge world of AI-powered brain imaging with the MindEye2 Project. Discover how researchers are reconstructing images from fMRI data, offering unprecedented insights into the human mind. We discuss the implications for neuroscience, clinical diagnosis, and the future of AI-assisted brain decoding. RECOMMENDED PODCAST: How…

"We're facing a new type of software." Professor David Bau is developing new techniques to understand, debug, edit, and control the behavior of neural nets. Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Opvjze8Ic

In this episode, Linus Lee, AI product leader at Notion, joins us to discuss his groundbreaking projects and unique approach to exploring AI systems. He shares his toolkit and insights on language model capabilities, along with his vision for the future of AI, which is centered on amplifying human intelligence.…

In this podcast, Nathan and Nick Gannon dive deep into the data requirements for achieving Artificial General Intelligence. They explore the current paradigms, the role of data in approximating intelligence, and the scaling trends for GPT models. The discussion covers various datasets, from email and Twitter to YouTube and genomic…