Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how this technology can swiftly provide direct visualization of internal organs. Learn more about how micro-robots could move us past the age of invasive endoscopies and open up doors to more comfortable, affordable medical imaging. (This talk contains medical imagery.)
In 2025, China tech is no longer just catching up—it’s rewriting the rules. From quantum computers that outperform U.S. supercomputers to humanoid robots priced for mass adoption, China tech is accelerating at a pace few imagined. In this video, Top 10 Discoveries Official explores the 8 cutting-edge breakthroughs that prove China tech is reshaping transportation, AI, clean energy, and even brain-computer interfaces. While the West debates and regulates, China tech builds—from driverless taxis and flying cars to homegrown AI chips and thorium reactors. Watch now to understand why the future might not be written in Silicon Valley, but in Shenzhen.
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On this episode, Ben Goertzel joins me to discuss what distinguishes the current AI boom from previous ones, important but overlooked AI research, simplicity versus complexity in the first AGI, the feasibility of alignment, benchmarks and economic impact, potential bottlenecks to superintelligence, and what humanity should do moving forward.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Preview and intro.
00:01:59 Thinking about AGI in the 1970s.
00:07:28 What’s different about this AI boom?
00:16:10 Former taboos about AGI
00:19:53 AI research worth revisiting.
00:35:53 Will the first AGI be simple?
00:48:49 Is alignment achievable?
01:02:40 Benchmarks and economic impact.
01:15:23 Bottlenecks to superintelligence.
01:23:09 What should we do?
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