The meaning of human freedom, the perils of AI and the role of VR in our future

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Jun 15, 2015

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Hello listeners! Welcome to a very special episode of the EnterVR podcast. On today’s show I speak Manish Gupta, James Blaha, Aaron Frank and Steve Gerhman. Come along as we discuss the future of the human species.

1:00 Catching up with James and Manish from Vivid Vision.

2:40 Catching up with Aaron Frank from Singularity University.

5:00 Why game engines are awesome.

6:00 How far are we away from being able to control thought and memory? Will VR become the human thought control interface?

8:00 Sword Art Online Spoilers start here:

11:30 Where does VR fit in, in the eventuality of us having 1 trillion connected devices?
(Read the book “What technology wants” by Kevin Kelly.

21:00 How will we deal with grieving when we can live longer than any other humans that came before us?

24:00 Discussing the universal basic income.

28:00 Finding an economic solution to climate change.

34:00 Why the universal basic income paired with the Metaverse economy will save humanity from the AI economy.

37:00 How long do we have before civilization collapses because of the AI economy?

40:00 Why the rise of AI will be bad for the human species.

46:00 What goals should we give AI? What are we suppose to do with AI once its born?

49:00 Today’s recurrent neural networks can give you the ability to do amazing things.

55:00 Ex Machina spoilers begin here.

59:00 What will the first human brain augmentations look like?

1:01:00 Discussing transcranial direct current stimulation devices.

1:05:00 How much do we know about the human brain in 2015? Discussing Opti genetics.

1:10:00 The importance of philosophy in our time. What does it mean to be free?

1:21:00 What is the likelihood of AI not killing us all?

1:26:00 What would you say to your future self of 10 years from now? Being able to record our experiences and reliving our memories in VR.

1:29:00 The business model of the first AI? Using AI for Cybercrime? What is crime?

1:34:00 What will human organization look like in the 21st century?

1:37:00 (as of June 12th 2015, TPP has been blocked by the U.S House of Representatives). How to fight back corporate interests that want suppress a free and open internet.

1:42:00 What does it mean to be a millennial? How will this generation be remembered? What is the purpose of being human?

1:48:00 How will we keep up with the pace of change as the future seems to accelerating towards us?

1:49:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch.

Stay in touch with the links below:

https://twitter.com/Afrank26

https://twitter.com/jamesblaha

https://twitter.com/manishiwa

sgehrman@gmail.com

http://www.seevividly.com/

http://singularityu.org/

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Learn and teach math using vr and understanding the dawn of artificial intelligence

Podcasts

Dec 12, 2014

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Hello listerners! Welcome to another episode of the EnterVR podcast. On todays show I speak with Zoe and Michael. They are graduate robotics researchers at UC Berkeley and they are also developing a platform for you to learn and teach math using virtual reality.

Here is a preview of some of the things discussed.
30: Intro. Making a more intimate connection with math through VR.

3:00 What are the fundamental advantages of a math literate society?

5:50 What is Math VR? How will it look? Travelling to a place where math resides.

8:30 How do you know what to visualize and how to visualize it? Making 3D math accesible in VR.

12:20 How to convey the utility of math in virtual reality to the average user.

14:10 Why do you need linear algebra in your life?

16:20 “I know math, and I feel free as fuck”.

20:00 “What can’t you do with math?” AR and Wearable will make turn our world into math.

24:00 How far along in development is MathVR. Using Leapmotion to control the interface.

30:50 Speaking about the Dimensions of Interstellar. SPOILER ALERT.

37:00 What is the distribution model? Is the team trying to make money with this project?

39:30 How to contribute to the MathVR project?

41:20 Giving people the tools so that they can create their own vr math lessons.

42:00 Are we genetically encoded to love math? Are some of us doomed to never ‘get’ math?

50:22 Making math social and doing math together with friends in VR. Is Math meant to be a lonely journey?

53:00 Mathcraft. Minecraft for math.

59:00 Getting people addicted to getting smart.

1:02:00 Is Math something that you create or is it something we discover.

1:06:00 What are the implications of conclusively resolving whether math is created or discovered.

1:08:00 Could math teach people how to be better humans?

1:10:00 Could enabling the democratization of math bring about the next Hitler?

1:14:00 What does Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk know about that you don’t about AI?

1:15:00 How is a deep learning influencing the progress of AI?

1:18:30 Doing Math on drugs? Can we create drugs that can make us smarter in math?

1:25:00 “The Matrix is coming, learn math”.

1:27:00 When and how will we know when AI is here?

1:29:00 What happens when you mix quantum computers and AI algorithyms?

1:32:00 Why build AI? What’s the point?

1:35:00 What is sentience?

1:38:00 Do you create sentience from a model of the human brain or do you start from scratch?

1:42:00 The geopolitical state of AI. Is there Manhattan project for AI somewhere underneath the desert?

1:45:00 Is the military involved in the push to create better AI? How far along are they?

1:48:00 What is the singularity after all? The MIRI institute.

1:51:00 Is humanity ready for AI? What are the legal ramifications of AI?

1:55:00 How do you deal with the implications that something might be smarter than humans? Creating a human based strong AI.

1:59:00 Are we really just the sex organs of the machine?

2:02:00 Experimenting with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.

2:04:00 What will virtual reality look like 20 years from today?

2:06:00 How can we create the metaverse from within the metaverse.

2:08:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch.
Thanks again to Zoe and Michael for being true scholars /lady and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening.
Keep in touch with the links below.
(check back soon, this list will have better links in the future)
https://twitter.com/ZoeMcCarthy2

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