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AGI in 3 to 8 years

When will AI match and surpass human capability? In short, when will we have AGI, or artificial general intelligence… the kind of intelligence that should teach itself and grow itself to vastly larger intellect than an individual human?

According to Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNet, that time is very close: only 3 to 8 years away. In this TechFirst, I chat with Ben as we approach the Beneficial AGI conference in Panama City, Panama.

We discuss the diverse possibilities of human and post-human existence, from cyborg enhancements to digital mind uploads, and the varying timelines for when we might achieve AGI. We talk about the role of current AI technologies, like LLMs, and how they fit into the path towards AGI, highlighting the importance of combining multiple AI methods to mirror human intelligence complexity.

We also explore the societal and ethical implications of AGI development, including job obsolescence, data privacy, and the potential geopolitical ramifications, emphasizing the critical period of transition towards a post-singularity world where AI could significantly improve human life. Finally, we talk about ownership and decentralization of AI, comparing it to the internet’s evolution, and envisages the role of humans in a world where AI surpasses human intelligence.

00:00 Introduction to the Future of AI
01:28 Predicting the Timeline of Artificial General Intelligence.
02:06 The Role of LLMs in the Path to AGI
05:23 The Impact of AI on Jobs and Economy.
06:43 The Future of AI Development.
10:35 The Role of Humans in a World with AGI
35:10 The Diverse Future of Human and Post-Human Minds.
36:51 The Challenges of Transitioning to a World with AGI
39:34 Conclusion: The Future of AGI.

Microsoft Is Draining an Arizona Town’s Water Supply for its AI

A massive Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town’s water supply to support its cloud computing and AI efforts, The Atlantic reports.

A source familiar with Microsoft’s Goodyear facility told the Atlantic that it was specifically designed for use by Microsoft and the heavily Micosoft-funded OpenAI. In response to this allegation, both companies declined to comment.

Powering AI demands an incredible amount of energy. Worsening AI’s massive environmental footprint is the fact that it also consumes a mind-boggling amount of water. AI pulls enough electricity from data centers that they risk overheating, so to mitigate that risk, engineers use water to cool the servers back down.

Artificial intelligence will use cryptocurrency to transform human society

and this means humans will use brain computer interface to transact, but where will the AGI’s economy take shape, and how will you take part?

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AI news timestamps:
0:00 Everyone’s wrong.
1:57 Future of money.
3:04 The economy of AGI
5:35 Brain computer interface transactions.
6:26 Methods of income.

#ai #technology #tech

Researchers develop amphibian-inspired camouflage skin

Inspired by amphibians such as the wood frog, investigators designed and synthesized a new type of camouflage skin involving one-dimensional photonic crystal structures assembled in three-dimensional flexible gels.

As described in Advanced Optical Materials, the camouflage skin can quickly recognize and match the background by modulating the optical signals of external stimuli.

It demonstrated excellent mechanical performance, self-adaptive camouflage capabilities in response to complex surroundings, and long-term stability in real-world living environments. Bright structural color and mechanical flexibility were maintained even at temperatures as low as-80℃

What shape is the universe?

Key Takeaways:

Princeton University cosmologist David Spergel emphasizes that the universe’s shape reveals crucial insights into its historical evolution and future trajectory. Questions regarding whether the universe will expand indefinitely or eventually contract, as well as its finiteness or infiniteness, all pivot on its shape.

We’re putting AI brains in robot bodies now. What could go wrong?

Brooks himself is among the philosophers who have previously said giving AI sensory and motor skills to engage with the world may be the only way to create true artificial intelligence. A good deal of human creativity, after all, comes from physical self-preservation — a caveman need only cut himself once on sharpened bone to see its use in hunting. And what is art if not a hope that our body-informed memories may outlive the body with which we formed them?

If you want to get even more mind-bent, consider thinkers like Lars Ludwig, who proposed that memory isn’t even something we can hold exclusively in our bodies anyway. Rather, to be human always meant sharing consciousness with technology to “extend artificial memory” — from a handprint on a cave wall, to the hard drive in your laptop. Thus, human cognition and memory could be considered to take place not just in the human brain, nor just in human bodily instinct, but also in the physical environment itself.

If you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and nobody knows why.【Video】

The fascinating phenomenon of sonoluminescence, where light is produced when an underwater bubble is collapsed by a sound wave, has sparked a vibrant discussion. Despite being a subject of scientific research and debate, the exact mechanisms behind sonoluminescence are still not fully understood.

One user pointed out that this phenomenon is also known as sonoluminescence, which occurs when a small gas bubble in a liquid is collapsed by intense sound waves, emitting a short burst of light. This can happen in a laboratory setting using a device that generates and focuses sound waves into a liquid.

Several theories have been proposed to explain how the light is produced. The Hot Spot Theory suggests that the bubble’s collapse causes the gas inside to heat up to extremely high temperatures, possibly hot enough to ionize the gas and produce a plasma, which then emits light.

Your brain in the zone: A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain achieves a creative flow state

The University of Chicago Medicine is among the first 30 institutions in the country to offer tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy for advanced melanoma, immediately activating as an authorized treatment center after federal regulators approved the treatment on February 16, 2024.

Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in business, the arts, research, education and anyone else who wants to produce a stream of creative ideas and products. That’s the flow, or the sense of being “in the zone.” A new neuroimaging study from Drexel University’s Creativity Research Lab is the first to reveal how the brain gets to the creative flow state.

The study is published in the journal Neuropsychologia.

The study isolated flow-related brain activity during a creative task: jazz improvisation. The findings reveal that the creative flow state involves two key factors: extensive experience, which leads to a network of brain areas specialized for generating the desired type of ideas, plus the release of control— letting go—to allow this network to work with little or no conscious supervision.

Introducing the next generation of Claude

Anthropic announces Claude 3

The three state-of-the-art models.

Claude 3 opus, claude 3 sonnet, and claude 3 haiku.

Today, we’re announcing the Claude 3 model family, which sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus.