Complete Tech Heads with Tom Edwards

Whose responsibility is it if an AI goes haywire and causes damage to a human? And how should we think about their rights, responsibilities, and morality? These are serious questions we're going to have to grapple with far more often in the future. Prof David Gunkel, this week's guest, argues we need to be thinking about it now. In this conversation, we cover:

00:00 - Intro

01:45 - Defining a person and defining a thing

02:45 - Blurring the lines with robots

05:15 - Anthropomorphisaton

07:00 - AI friends and conscious minds

09:30 - Talking to machines and AI girlfriends

12:00 - Marc Andreesen, technological things & techno-optimism

15:30 - Human treatment of animals

18:00 - AIs taking decisions in the real world

19:30 - Talking about robots rather than AIs

21:30 - Cloud-based AI, LLMs, and AIs falling in love with each other

25:30 - Chinese, European, and American approaches to regulating AI

27:30 - AI risk and doomerism

29:30 - Open source AI, regulatory capture, and ethics-washing

32:30 - Artificial Superintelligence

34:30 - Doomers creating an emergency

35:30 - How to legislate robots and AI

41:30 - The future and the responsibilities of AIs

44:30 - Instrumental goals, recommendations algorithms and ultimate responsibility

50:30 - Unwittingly heralding the downfall of civilization

52:30 - Sam Altman and the smith exponential of technology

If you're interested in reading more, the book we discuss can be downloaded here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5641/Person-Thing-RobotA-Moral-and-Legal-Ontology-for

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This week I'm speaking with James Richards, founder of moobs, a non-profit dedicated to male breast cancer, a disease that 400 men are diagnosed with every year in the UK. In it, we cover James's journey with cancer, the issues he found with female-centric support options, as well as some of the exciting technologies that will hopefully make cancer a thing of the past in coming years. 

You can find out more about moobs here: 

Website: www.moobs.uk

X and Insta: @moobs_uk

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The GOAT of YouTube MrBeast has recently been at the centre of a terrifying deepfake scam sweeping the internet. Here's what to watch out for... and what might come next.

PS. Sorry for the late upload - I'm on holiday!

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My conversation with Thomas H Chapin IV, an AI Engineer who wants to use technology to improve human #healthspan, #longevity, and overall quality of life.

In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

02:45 - Thomas's background

10:00 - Questioning the certainty of death

12:00 - AI curing cancer

17:00 - Digital twins and replacing bits of your body

22:00 - Death as a choice

23:30 - Longevity vs healthspan

24:30 - Bryan Johnson

25:45 - Longevity escape velocity

29:00 - Senescent cells and intermittent fasting

34:00 - Injecting robots

36:30 - Dr Gupta

42:00 - Brain Computer Interfaces

48:00 - Universal Basic Income - and the dearth of purpose

54:00 - Distributing the wealth created by AI

#bryanjohnson #ai #technews

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My conversation with AI consultant and X AI influencer LyleAI, in which we discuss getting started using AI tools, prompt engineering, super prompts, how to make sure you ride the AI wave rather than getting drowned by it, and the technology sector more generally.

#ai #technews #airisks #business #entrepreneurship

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My full conversation with Joseph Jacks, founder and General Partner at OSS Capital - a VC dedicated to funding open-source software companies. In it, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro to JJ, OSS Capital, and Commercial Open Source

03:25 - The concept of COSS, how it works, how it differs from traditional VC

04:30 - Open core companies vs closed core companies

08:30 - How can you maintain a competitive position and moat when you’re open source

14:00 - OpenAI and regulatory capture

21:00 - e/acc vs Doomerism

26:45 - Could humanity lose control and agency over AI?

29:45 - Open source AI vs ppen *weights* AI?

33:00 - Transformer architecture - and its flaws

Find out more:

JJ on X: @JosephJacks_

OSS Capital: https://oss.capital/

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Interview with Dr Pauldy Otermans, neuroscientist, psychologist, and founder of the Otermans Institute. Dr Pauldy helped build the first independent AI teacher - OIAI - with the mission to upskill 750 million underserved students globally by 2030. She was named one of the ‘22 most influential women in the UK of 2022’ by Start-Up Magazine UK and has also been awarded by the UK Prime Minister in 2021.

In this episode we talk AI teachers, AI friends, AI girlfriends, and much more.

Timestamps are:

00:00 - Intro

01:45 - The problem with teachers globally

03:00 - How the Otermans Institute started

05:30 - AI teachers

10:30 - Building their first supervised model

13:45 - "Eureka" moments

15:15 - Recursive learning

24:30 - How close are we to human-like relationships with AIs?

26:00 - AI girlfriends

30:00 - Optimizing for quality teaching

31:50 - The power of AI for good and bad

38:00 - Gaming and the metaverse

39:00 - Human vs AI learning

46:00 - Learning styles and interest

Find out more about Dr Pauldy and the OI here:

Instagram: OI https://www.instagram.com/oiedu19/?hl=en ; and Teddy AI: https://www.instagram.com/teddyai_official/?hl=en

Twitter: @Otermans_Edu, https://twitter.com/Otermans_Edu

Linkedin: Otermans Institute, https://www.linkedin.com/company/oiedu

#ai #aigirlfriend #aiteacher #education

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This week I'm talking all things integrated marketing and B2B SaaS with Lisa Vecchio, VP Marketing at Aircall. In it, we discover whether there's really any magic to demand gen, how social platforms are converging, how to integrate your marketing, and how AI is going to change the industry in coming years...

00:00 - Intro

05:40 - Convergence of social platforms

08:45 - Is threads dead?

12:50 - How has B2B SaaS marketing changed?

15:20 - Demand gen magic

17:40 - Advice to young marketers

22:00 - Generalists vs specialists

24:10 - Integrated marketing

29:40 - Managing relationships and AIs

32:40 - How will marketing change in future?

36:00 - Generative AI in marketing

39:40 - European vs US tech

43:00 - Aircall

#b2bmarketing #ai #saas

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Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Mind, and recently wrote an article titled AIs Will Be Our Children for Quilette, which makes up much of the focus of this episode.

In it, we cover:

00:00 - Intro

06:30 - AI risk & doomers

11:00 - AI is our descendants

13:45 - Foom

16:45 - Transition to superinteligence

21:00 - Passing on genes to AI

33:30 - Human consciousness

43:00 - Human job displacement

49:30 - will people want to be robots?

50:00 - Brain-Computer Interfaces

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