Complete Tech Heads with Tom Edwards

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Gene editing is an area of technology that could be about to change all of our lives for the better - and there are a few companies doing really incredible things. In this episode I spoke with Anthony, from the Gene Investing w/Anthony X page. In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

01:54 - DoNotAge.org ad

02:37 - Intro to Anthony

06:00 - How huge is the opportunity for our species? Biotech generally & the current bear market

07:00 - CRISPR - the company and the technology, base editing

15:13 - Why is it such a compelling area for investment

17:15 - Alphafold and the historic problem of protein folding, and the transformative impact of AI on gene editing

20:30 - How to assess gene editing businesses

24:30 - Solvng diseases like Cardioneuropathy and polyneuropathy

28:15 - Applications: superhumans and curing baldness

31:50 - What will the world look like in 5, 10 or 20 years if the tech keeps progressing? Curing Sickle Cell Anemia, side effects

46:00 - Intellia Therapeutics and BEAM Therapeutics, understanding analysts, big industry investment

58:45 - Ethical concerns and designer babies

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It turns out Google Gemini's launch video was a fake - but there is another new AI upstart from France grabbing headlines for the right reasons... here's why.

#ai #gemini #mistral #mistralai #google

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This week I'm speaking with Andrew Panella, author and founder of Longevity Lifestyle - a newsletter aimed at helping people live better for longer.

In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

03:00 - Longevity and extending human lifespan and healthspan

08:00 - Food groups and metabolic flexibility

12:30 - Keto diets

16:30 - Inflammation and its effects

22:00 - Benefits of fermented foods

27:00 - Gut bacteria

30:00 - Processed foods

35:30 - Nutritional supplements

37:00 - Movement and exercise

41:00 - Walking barefoot and barefoot shoes

47:00 - Alcohol

Find Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/Longevity_EDU

And on his website: https://www.longevitylifestyle.me/

#longevity #healthspan #dieting #inflammation #barefoot

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This week I’m speaking with Alex Ker, Founder and Chairman of p-ai, fellow at Bessemer, 8vc and Bloomberg Beta, former editor at at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and a content creator. In the show we discuss Grok, Elon, OpenAI’s dev day, AI job displacement, Open Source, and brain-computer interfaces. 

And apologies for any sound issues! It appears my mic cut out soon after we started recording.

00:00 - Intro

02:30 - Building an AI NBA commentator

08:30 - Grok, GPT, censorship, RLHF, and using X data to train AI

20:00 - Integrating filters into LLMs

23:00 - OpenAI dev day - exciting features and possibilities

29:00 - GPT wrappers and GPT4 use cases

37:00 - AI job displacement, key skills to succeed in the AI future

44:00 - Open Source AI

48:00 - Brain-computer interfaces

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The UK AI Safety Summit and Joe Biden's AI Safety Executive Order happened within a few days of each other, kicking off a global drive to regulate AI. But will either of them achieve their stated aims? This week I'm trying to find out.

Time stamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:45 - Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk

02:00 - The Bletchley Declaration

03:45 - Joe Biden's Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

05:25 - Impossibility of watermarking AI content

07:15 - Successes of the UK AI Safety Summit

08:30 - Cybersecurity and Poppy Gustafsson from Darktrace

10:00 - Were Biden or Bletchley actually successful?

#ai #technews #airisks #aisafety #joebiden #rishisunak #elonmusk

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This week I'm the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI with researcher and thought leader David Shapiro. David is an incredibly knowledgeable man who goes into great depth on many of the most pressing issues around AI facing us as a species on his YouTube channel. In this show, we discuss: 

00:00 - Intro

02:00 - The fourth industrial revolution

08:30 - How should we prepare? Congress, the UN & geopolitics

14:00 - Politics, AI, and the gerontocracy

17:00 - AI Summit and China

20:00 - AI risk, and what we should do about it

25:00 - AI weaponization

27:30 - The possibility of controlling superintelligent AI

36:00 - Energy abundance & optimistic scenarios

39:30 - Work, meaning, job destruction, and status games

54:00 - Longevity escape velocity and significantly extending human life

60:00 - The ACE Framework

Check out David's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveShap

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