AGI Podcast

Introduction

If we combine all the Wikipedias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons), there will be 27 billion words, written in 293 languages, spread across over 40 million articles.

By crowdsourcing knowledge and offering it for free over the internet, there is little doubt that Wikipedia has provided immense value to humanity. The project, unlike many others, successfully tapped into the open source spirit of the Web 1.0 and survived the onslaught (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-knol-wikipedia-killer-or-knowledge-management-app/) of the walled gardens that sprung up as the web evolved. As the world’s most frequented encyclopedia in humanity’s history, it has achieved enviable success in its mission to democratize knowledge.

So why is Larry Sanger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger), the co-founder of Wikipedia, one of its harshest (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnppw4/wikipedias-co-founder-is-wikipedias-biggest-critic-511) critics? What is his vision for a Wikipedia 2.0? And what has it got to do with the blockchain?

In the latest episode of the AGI Podcast (https://singularitynet.io/podcast/), we asked Larry Sanger all of those questions — and more — for a fascinating and insightful conversation on knowledge marketplaces, decentralized curation, and finding the best of our knowledge.

Today’s article is about a particularly inspiring AGI Podcast revolving around decentralized efforts to achieve synoptical systems for social good, and which ties in with a new endeavor (https://blog.singularitynet.io/building-the-unimaginable-the-odyssey-hackathon-part-1-9cdf239f4b79) undertaken by the SingularityNET team. This week we interviewed a prominent figure in the European blockchain and AI innovation scene: Jan-Peter Doomernik. Jan-Peter is Nature 2.0 (https://blog.singularitynet.io/singularitynet-partners-with-nature-2-0-be441cf2aa40?gi=cce1fc28ed89)’s Lead Architect and a Senior Business Developer working in one of Holland’s leading distribution service operators (DSO) Enexis Netbeheer (https://www.enexis.nl/consument). In the podcast, we discuss the “demystification of complexity”, the upcoming Odyssey hackathon (https://www.odyssey.org/), and the efforts that civil society, academia and industry can make to introduce new autonomous systems imbued with humanitarianism.

“In forests, you have big trees and little trees and those trees are connected like a network in which the big trees share resources of sunlight and water to the little trees so that the little trees do not have to become competitors.” — Jan-Peter Doomernik

Changing the world one system at a time: a conversation with Mark Turrell.

We were delighted to receive Mark Turrell on the AGI podcast for a fascinating and well-informed conversation on humanity, organising principles, structural tendencies and networks. Mark is a Harvard educated entrepreneur, educator, author and strategist. He has focused most of his life on understanding, solving and improving complex problems across industries and cultures. Be it from Europe, Africa or North America, Mark has helped companies scale -a topic on which he wrote a book (https://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Small-Smart-Outsized-Results-ebook/dp/B00L2K4D5A) about- and has passionately supported people and projects poised toward social good, for which he received the title of Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Currently, he is an associate professor at Hult Business School and the CEO of both Orcasci (http://orcasci.squarespace.com/) and Vork (http://vork-0.launchrock.com/), a strategy agency and a networking app, respectively.

If we were to end Mark’s introduction with a glimpse of his raison d’être, it would be with the following:

“My goal is to change the entire world for the better, all of it, at the same time, so that people can be happier, be less sad, and be free to choose. As a pragmatist, I develop plans and tactics to achieve this.”

We hope you enjoy listening as much as we did while interviewing Mark.

Becoming one with technology, with Zoltan Istvan

Though you can find transhumanists “by the millions” around the globe, you will not find many quite like Zoltan Istvan. His dedication to the cause of transhumanism has marked his political and public life and deserve a brief introduction.

Zoltan is one of the most vocal figures in the U.S today fighting to bring about an informed public conversation around the topic of fully integrating technology into our lives, and ultimately to kindle a transhumanist rights movement. Zoltan is the founder of the Transhumanist Party in the United States (US) for which he ran as the presidential nominee, and a journalist published by Vice’s Motherboard, Wired and Techchrunch. He is also the author of the Transhumanist Wager and the Transhumanist Bill of Rights. Recently Zoltan has given talks at the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and at the Global Innovation Forum in Armenia.

Preparing for a technological future - Marko Klemetti

AGI & The New Space Frontier - Alison Lowndes

The Political Economy of AGI - Azeem Azhar

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In this our second Episode we welcome our first guest to the series, Dr. Julia Mossbridge, A leading Cognitive Neuroscientist, Scholar and Author.

Julia has a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders which she obtained from the Northwestern University. She also holds a Masters Degree in Neuroscience From the University of California San Francisco, and she received her B.A. with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College in Ohio.

She is the Founder and Scientific Director of the Mossbridge Institute, a fellow Institute of Noetic Sciences, and a visiting Scholar at Northwestern University.

Dr. Mossbridge is widely published and has authored such books as ‘Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness’, and the soon to be released ‘The Premonition Code: The Science of Precognition, How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life’

Julia also is the principle founder of ‘Loving AI’, a research project addressing how AI agents can communicate unconditional love to humans through conversations that adapt to the unique needs of each user. It is a collaboration between SingularityNET, Hanson Robotics and Lia Inc.

As always if you are interested to know more about SingularityNET or the Loving AI project, or indeed if want to find out more about any of our guests in general, please do drop us a line at [email protected]