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How AI is making non-invasive mind reading a reality
Using Functional Neuroinfrared Spectroscopy for Assistive Communication
AI Key Takeaways
- Assistive devices using brain imaging technology can help individuals who have lost the ability to communicate due to strokes or brain surgery
- The current technology, an MRI scanner, is impractical for widespread use as it is expensive and requires trained staff
- Research is being done on alternative brain imaging technologies, such as functional neuroinfrared spectroscopy (F-NERS)
- F-NERS works by shining infrared light through a person's skull to measure blood flow and oxygenation
- The signal measured by F-NERS is similar to the fMRI signal
- Collaboration with F-NERS experts is underway to explore the application of this technology
- In the future, this technology could potentially be used as a consumer device for at-home use
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Reddit communities revolt + Brad Gerstner on state of private and public markets in 2023 | E1761
The Future of Personal Agents: Chat GPT and Other Competitors
AI Key Takeaways
- Intellectual humility requires thinking about the future as a distribution of probabilities
- Chet GPT's execution and recent price drop are impressive
- Open source models show great potential
- Chet GPT may be the most important foundation model and personal agent in the world
- PI could be the successor to search as a personally intelligent agent
- Various companies are competing in the chatbot space
- Chat GPT performed well in a comparison of chatbots for making a French omelette
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EP 160: Exploring Liminality (WFSF 50th Anniversary Conference) - Helga Veigl & Martin Calnan
How trauma shapes our capacity to anticipate the future
AI Key Takeaways
- Trauma can affect a person's ability to anticipate and envision a future
- Understanding the anticipatory mechanisms and heuristics can help in coping and developing anticipation
- A cultural bias may exist in approaching anticipation and trauma
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Consumer Technology in the Age of AI - with Connie Chan of a16z
We’ll see more AI Startups seek to personalise generative AI
AI Key Takeaways
- Many startups nowadays have an AI strategy.
- Established companies are expected to add AI experiences as well.
- Personalized experiences are becoming more prevalent and will likely continue to grow in the next year.
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Episode 1 - David Brin on the History and Future of AGI
Fear of AI reflects fear of return to pyramidal social structure
AI Key Takeaways
- Hollywood scary stories about AI reflect a fear of a return to a pyramidal social structure.
- These stories depict new godlike entities with murderously or manipulatively dominating power.
- The scare stories are about losing our flattened diamond reciprocal accountability flattened system.
- The films reflect a fear of a return to a system in which godlike beings could become AI.
- The choice between a control system based on pleasure or an iron boot on our face is obvious, but both are not keeping faith.
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The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks
The Obsolescence Regime: A Potential Future Endpoint for AI Systems
AI Key Takeaways
- The obsolescence regime is a potential endpoint for AI system reliance by humans in economic and military contexts
- In such a world, military strategy advisors and technology inventors must rely on AI to remain competitive
- AI has become integral to professional success and power in this world, similar to computers today
- Refusing to use AI would result in decreased power and competitiveness in the obsolescence regime.
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A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone Positivity
The Weird Culture of AI creators: summoners of god-like intelligence
AI Key Takeaways
- AI researchers believe there is a 10% chance high level machine intelligence could fundamentally harm humanity
- The speaker wouldn't take action with that same level of risk to their own children
- The speaker questions why AI researchers choose to play with potentially harmful technology
- The speaker suggests AI researchers believe they are acting as a shepherd, ushering in the inevitable arrival of advanced AI technology
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