MSTC_S1E6: Dr. Kristofer Pister, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley and Founder of Dust Networks presents all you need to know about Smart Dust, thousands of tiny sensors detecting movement and vibration. It is amazing how useful that could be.
The Zoo Hypothesis is a Fermi Paradox solution that assumes extraterrestrial civilizations can’t be detected by our SETI efforts because they keep our whole world in an Alien Zoo.
Many seek a path to enlightenment through study and meditation, but what does science tell us about transcendence? And could entire civilizations seek to leave this reality behind?
Credits: Transcendence. Episode 465; September 19, 2024 Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur. Editors: Dillon Ollander. John M Smart. Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik. Ken York. Sergio Botero. Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images. Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Does humanity face a bright future? What will it be like? We ask these questions in a discussion with Isaac Arthur host of Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Other topics include, uplifting of intelligent species like Dolphins, Chimpanzees, and locked in water world aliens on exoplanets. As well as blackhole farming and if alien civilizations will decide to come together when the lights go out.
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The concept of enhancing and augmenting animal minds & bodies to be able to use and understand human technology, known as Uplifting, has long fascinated us. Today in this two-part collaboration with John Michael Godier, we will explore this concept as well as the possibility of using such technology with alien races, the polar opposite of the classic Star Trek Prime Directive.
Graphics Team: Edward Nardella. Jarred Eagley. Justin Dixon. Katie Byrne. Kris Holland. Misho Yordanov. Murat Mamkegh. Pierre Demet. Sergio Botero. Stefan Blandin.
Script Editing: Andy Popescu. Connor Hogan. Edward Nardella. Eustratius Graham. Gregory Leal. Jefferson Eagley. Luca de Rosa. Mark Warburton. Michael Gusevsky. Mitch Armstrong. MolbOrg. Naomi Kern. Philip Baldock. Sigmund Kopperud. Tiffany Penner.
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is “grown”, the need for a science of intelligence, the effects of AI on work, the radical implications of superintelligence, open-source AI, and what you might be able to do about all of this. Here’s the document we discuss in the episode: https://www.thecompendium.ai Timestamps: 00:00 The Compendium 15:25 The motivations of AGI corps 31:17 AI is grown, not written 52:59 A science of intelligence 01:07:50 Jobs, work, and AGI 01:23:19 Superintelligence 01:37:42 Open-source AI 01:45:07 What can we do?
Inspired by butterfly wings, a team of German researchers have developed a new kind of robotic wings that can work using only magnetic fields. The new wings created by the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf researchers need no batteries or electronics.
They could have interesting applications from search and rescue to medical sciences. The researchers drew inspiration from the remarkable efficiency and endurance of monarch butterflies, known to have incredibly long migrations between Canada and Mexico.