Get started with 1 month free of Superhuman today, using my link: https://try.sprh.mn/briankeating Is AI our partner in evolution, or is it a harbinger of our downfall? In this episode of Into the Impossible, I sit down with two brilliant minds to explore the current and future relationship between artificial intelligence, human evolution, and creativity. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a leading AI researcher, and Benjamin Bratton, philosopher and theorist, bring their unique insights to this conversation. Together, we discuss how AI is not here to replace us but to reshape what it means to be human, through symbiosis rather than competition. We explore the concept of the hardware lottery, the role of randomness and creativity in both human brains and machines, and how AI can help us rethink the concept of evolution itself. From quantum computing to AI’s future in medicine and education, this conversation explores the big questions shaping tomorrow’s world. — Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Einstein's happiest thought and the hardware lottery 00:11:13 Co-evolution and human-AI interaction 00:12:44 Is AI training us? 00:15:43 The limitations of AI 00:23:19 Ethical considerations of AI use 00:26:42 The path to a new physics 00:30:32 Blaise’s books explained 00:40:23 It takes a computer to know a computer 00:44:30 The role of improvisation 00:47:19 The role of predictability 00:52:48 Where are we now? 00:57:01 AI, education, and daily use cases 01:02:27 Judging a book by its cover 01:11:29 Outro — Additional resources: 📚 Who Are We Now? by Blaise Aguera y Arcas: https://a.co/d/aG81gqL ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! #intotheimpossible #briankeating #blaiseaguera

What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds (Antikythera) [Aguera y Arcas, Blaise] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. What Is Intelligence?: Lessons ...

What is intelligence, and how is AI emergence a natural consequence of evolution? In his book "What Is Intelligence?" and in this conversation, Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up the idea that prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itself, and explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence. "What is Intelligence" is available for purchase now: https://amzn.to/3KaJs8f Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society, and the founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, an organization dedicated to fundamental AI research. He is the author of Who Are We Now?, and his research has included work on privacy-preserving machine learning, on-device AI, large language models, and human identity. Watch more CTT Chats here: https://t.ly/jJI7e

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“Life” and “intelligence” are terms with heavily contested meanings.This discussion will offer a novel, unified perspective on both, as described in Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ new book, What Is…

Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.

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What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds (Antikythera) [Aguera y Arcas, Blaise] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds (Antikythera)