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This week our guest is David Wood, a long-time futurist and renowned transhumanist thinker. David has authored 10 books on the subject of our technological future, including his recently published book Singularity Principles: Anticipating and Managing Cataclysmically Disruptive Technologies.

In addition to exploring some of the principles and ideas from David’s latest publication, this episode takes a wide but succinct tour of the singularity. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) the rise of artificial general intelligence, and whether we should merge with AI or if it will be a conscious entity separate from humans. We also discuss the variety of challenges that could push us towards a negative Singularity, as well as the many opportunities that could propel us toward an abundant and thriving future.

Find more of David’s work at deltawisdom.com or follow him at twitter.com/dw2.

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A new AI system will enable multiple robots to recognize people. A Japanese company has developed an AI system that makes it possible for multiple moving robots to identify people whose images have been uploaded in advance.

This new ability was examined during a pilot test in which images sent from robots in various locations within an event space were analyzed and compiled in the cloud using an AI engine. By utilizing the AI system, robots could identify specific people from camera images sent by various types of robots and to perform cloud-based confirmation. According to eenewseurope.com, The test also demonstrated that people’s locations could be pinpointed by using the positions of the robots.

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ChatGPT from Open AI has shocked many users as it is able to complete programming tasks from natural language descriptions, create legal contracts, automate tasks, translate languages, write articles, answer questions, make video games, carry out customer service tasks, and much more — all at the level of human intelligence with 99% percent of its outputs. PAL Robotics has taught its humanoid AI robots to use objects in the environment to avoid falling when losing balance.

AI News Timestamps:
0:00 Why OpenAI’s ChatGPT Has People Panicking.
3:29 New Humanoid AI Robots Technology.
8:20 Coursera Deep Learning AI

Twitter / Reddit Credits:
ChatGPT3 AR (Stijn Spanhove) https://bit.ly/3HmxPYm.
Roblox game made with ChatGPT3 (codegodzilla) https://bit.ly/3HkdXoY
ChatGPT3 making text to image prompts (Manu. Vision | Futuriste) https://bit.ly/3UyyKrG
ChatGPT3 for video game creation (u/apinanaivot) https://bit.ly/3VI17oI
ChatGPT3 making video game land (Lucas Ferreira da Silva) https://bit.ly/3iMdotO
ChatGPT3 deleting blender default cube (Blender Renaissance) https://bit.ly/3FcM3rZ
ChatGPT3 responding about Matrix (Mario Reder) https://bit.ly/3UIsX2K
ChatGPT3 to write acquisition rational for the board of directors (The Secret CFO) https://bit.ly/3BhmmW5
ChatGPT3 to get job offers (Leon Noel) https://bit.ly/3UFl3qT
Automated rpa with ChatGPT3 (Sahar Mor) https://bit.ly/3W1ZkKK
ChatGPT3 making 3D web designs (Avalon•4) https://bit.ly/3UzGXf7
ChatGPT3 making a legal contract (Atri) https://bit.ly/3BljuYn.
ChatGPT3 making signup program (Chris Raroque) https://bit.ly/3Hrachc.

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Biotech startup Lucy Therapeutics is developing mitochondrial-based small molecule therapies for neurological diseases and recently revealed the first two drugs to emerge from its lead programme targeting Parkinson’s. The company, which takes its name from the 3.2-million-year-old fossil of an ancestor of humankind, presented “promising preclinical data” at the Michael J Fox Foundation’s Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Conference in October.

The data shown by Lucy Therapeutics demonstrated that its compounds were able to reverse mitochondrial dysfunctions linked to Parkinson’s. In cellular models of the disease, the drugs boosted levels of cellular energy molecule ATP, prevented the death of neurons, and reduced levels of other hallmarks of Parkinson’s, including a-synuclein.

Longevity. Technology: Mitochondria are widely known as the ‘power generators’ within our cells, and their dysfunction has been linked to a range of age-related diseases. But the role of mitochondria extends beyond cellular energy as they also dictate many of a cell’s key functions. Lucy Therapeutics was founded on the hypothesis that diseases with rate-limiting steps involving mitochondrial dysfunction can potentially be treated by modulating key mitochondrial protein targets. To find out more, we caught up with the company’s founder and CEO, Dr Amy Ripka.