Dylan Curious

This week, we’re diving into the breakthroughs that are blurring the line between science fiction 

and reality. We start with the latest AI news before jumping into the "5 Levels of AGI"—where do we actually stand on the path to superintelligence?

We also explore the intersection of tech and biology, featuring a massive study on what 81,000 people actually want from AI, a look at how AI is saving Bay Area wildlife, and a groundbreaking update on cryopreservation and restarting brain activity.

In this episode:

00:00 — The Week AI Broke Reality: Latest Breakthroughs

02:51 — Energym: The Future of Kinetic Power

04:32 — AI Vision Fail: Developing "Digital" Film

07:11 — The First Robot Stand-Up Comic

08:34 — Recruiting AI Coding Bots for GitHub

10:26 — Recovering "Lost" 1986 Arcade Binaries

12:01 — Deep Dive: What 81,000 People Want From AI

14:27 — The 5 Levels of AGI: A Status Check

17:23 — Tracking the OpenAI Diaspora

19:31 — The Bay Area AI Animal Initiative

22:46 — Does Family Stress Accelerate Aging?

24:52 — The Jellyfish Body Clock Discovery

28:24 — Cryopreservation: Restarting Brain Activity

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Is the universe just one giant neural network? This week, we dive into the "97% AGI" countdown and the breakthrough Figure 01 robot updates that have experts questioning if the "Off Switch" is already out of reach.

We also explore:

• MiroFish & The Million Agent Delusion: What happens when a swarm of AI agents starts believing its own lies?

• The "Stochastic Parrot" Trap: Why dismissing AI as "just a math model" is the most dangerous mistake we can make.

• Resurrecting the Dire Wolf: Is Colossal Biosciences saving the planet or just performing a $10B stunt?

• The Consciousness Formula: Peter Rapota and Reg Cahill’s mind-bending theory that space, time, and "you" are just disturbances in a cosmic network.

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CHAPTERS  ⤵ 

00:00 — Why I’m Nervous About AI This Week

02:56 — The 97% AGI Countdown: Alan’s Latest Update

04:48 — MiroFish: 1 Million AI Agents & The "Shared Delusion" Problem

07:59 — Why We Need a Physical "Off Button" for Robots

08:33 — The Stochastic Parrot Trap: Why LLMs Are Not Just Math

10:50 — Andrew Yang’s Plan: Tax the AI, Not the Worker

14:18 — PASSGLM: How AI Uses Your Hacked Data to Predict Passwords

16:25 — The Psychology of Patterns: Why Smart Minds Believe Conspiracies

19:15 — $10B Dire Wolf Resurrection: Colossal Biosciences Exposed

22:09 — Grid Vibrations: Detecting Cyberattacks in 2 Seconds

24:26 — The Death of the Unique Voice? AI’s "Averaging" Problem

29:43 — The Formula for the Universe: Is Consciousness a Neural Network?

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What happens when you take 200,000 human brain cells, grow them on a silicon chip, and drop them into the corridors of the 1993 classic Doom?

In this episode, Dylan explores the rise of Synthetic Biological Intelligence. This isn’t a simulation or a metaphor—it’s "Wetware as a Service." From the labs of Cortical Labs in Melbourne to a sudden surge of interest from DARPA and the CIA’s venture capital arm, we are witnessing a transition from silicon to biology that should be science fiction, but isn't.

We dive deep into:

• The 20-Watt Revolution: Why a human brain is 1,000,000x more efficient than our best supercomputers.

• The Free Energy Principle: How neurons learn to play video games just to make the "flickering lights" of random electricity stop.

• The Ethics of "Primitive Suffering": Why some philosophers are calling for a global ban on biocomputing until 2050.

• The "Can it Run Doom?" Meme: How an independent developer used a biological API to do in one week what took researchers 18 months.

Is this the solution to the AI energy crisis, or are we building a future we aren't ethically prepared for?

Keep it  Curious 🤔

CHAPTERS  ⤵ 

00:00 — Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM on a Silicon Chip

02:00 — Cortical Labs: The Rise of Synthetic Biological Intelligence

07:55 — The Free Energy Principle: How Neurons Actually Learn

11:37 — The 2022 DishBrain Pong Experiment Explained

12:39 — How Sean Cole Ran DOOM on a Biological API in One Week

17:45 — Why Scientists and Philosophers Want a Global Ban

19:54 — Is it Conscious? The Ethics of Primitive Suffering

26:28 — Why My YouTube Analytics Are Exploding (The Hype Button)

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Is AI learning things we never taught it? In this episode, we dive into the "Emergent" frontier of technology—from AI models that can reconstruct what a mouse is seeing by reading its brain activity to the "Shadow APIs" secretly scamming researchers. We also explore why your back pain might actually be a glitch in your brain’s "operating system" and why aliens might think our obsession with Dyson Spheres makes us the weirdest species in the galaxy.

In this video, we cover:

• Mind-Reading AI: How researchers at UCL rebuilt a movie using only neural signals.

• The "Elephant" Problem: Why AI vision is superhuman but still thinks a cat is an elephant.

• AI Companions: The emotional and ethical "can of worms" of falling in love with a chatbot.

• Dyson Swarms: Why we should be looking for "space heaters" in the cosmos instead of megastructures.

  
  

  CHAPTERS ⤵ 00:00 - The State of AI: Mind Reading & Emergent Genius

  02:47 - Mind Reading AI: Reconstructing Vision from Brain Activity

  05:08 - GPT-5 Logic: How AI Learns Skills It Wasn’t Taught

  06:37 - Dyson Spheres: Why Aliens Are Looking for Our "Heat"

  09:04 - AI Companions: The Dark Side of Virtual Intimacy

  12:13 - Shadow APIs: The Hidden Scams in AI Research

  15:43 - FlashAttention-4: The Secret to 10x Faster AI Models

  17:18 - The Neuroscience of Pain: Why Back Pain is in Your Brain

  22:00 - Neg-Storms: How AI Predicts Social Media Toxicity

  24:33 - AI Vision Fail: Why AI Thinks a Cat is an Elephant

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  #ArtificialIntelligence #BrainComputerInterface #DysonSphere #Neuroscience #DylanCurious #TechNews2026 #GPT5 #AIVision

CHAPTERS  ⤵ 

00:00 — Using ChatGPT to Build a Custom Cancer Vaccine

02:55 — Rosie’s Story: A Race Against Mast Cell Cancer

04:10 — How to Prompt AI for Medical Research & Strategy

04:55 — Connecting AI Insights to Real-World Labs

07:09 — Cracking the Genetic Code: ChatGPT vs. DNA

10:21 — Using AlphaFold to Model 3D Protein Structures

12:48 — Designing the First Personalized mRNA Dog Vaccine

13:41 — Why Human Oversight & Expert Collaboration is Key

15:57 — The Future of AI: Empowering Billionaire Solopreneurs

SOURCES  ⤵https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/tech-boss-uses-ai-and-chatgpt-to-create-cancer-vaccine-for-his-dying-dog/news-story/292a21bcbe93efa17810bfcfcdfadbf7

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In this episode we are exploring the latest breakthroughs and ethical dilemmas in AI, from brain emulation to AI consciousness, sacred values, and privacy concerns. This is a deep dive into how AI is shaping our future and what it means for humanity.

CHAPTERS  ⤵ 

00:00 - AI News: Brain Cells Playing Doom & Soft Robots 

03:33 - Biocomputing: Can 800,000 Human Brain Cells Learn Doom? 

05:05 - Robotics: University of Southern Denmark’s New Soft Robot 

05:59 - The Fly Connectome: Simulating a Fruit Fly Brain in the Matrix 

07:47 - Elon Musk vs. Amanda Askell: The Fight Over AI Moral Frameworks 

11:53 - AI Consciousness: Sapience vs. Sentience in LLMs 

14:20 - The Alignment Problem: Can AI Treat Values as Sacred? 

17:19 - Emergent Behavior: How Claude Reverse-Engineered its own Benchmark 

19:22 - Privacy Alert: Tracking Cars via Tire Pressure Sensors (TPMS) 

21:09 - Agentic AI: The Accountability Gap in Autonomous Systems 

23:12 - Gen Z & AI: How "Social Offloading" is Changing Relationships 

24:57 - AI Safety: Why Ethical Reasoning is Better Than Guardrails

27:18 - Philosophy: Does Truth Define Humanity in a Post-Fact World?

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https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-safe-ai-isnt-fairness-honesty.html

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-truth-lost-philosopher-humanity.html

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CHAPTERS  ⤵ 

00:00 - Curious AI News & Other Developments

02:24 - UltaHost is a web hosting and VPS provider offering high-performance NVMe servers, global data centers, and developer-friendly infrastructure

04:05 - Elsa vs. Alien

5:00 - China's Robots Just Did Kung Fu on Live TV — And the World Should Be Paying Attention 

07:24 - Anthropic CEO responds to Trump order, Pentagon clash

12:41 - Ray Dalio Just Signed the Death Certificate for the Post-WWII World Order

14:18 - The Anti-Empathy Movement and the Brutal Ending of the Iliad Nobody Talks About

19:59 - Scientists Cracked Open AI’s Black Box — And Used What They Found to Control It

21:33 - The Persona Selection Model

24:00 - The Microsoft-OpenAI Divorce Is Official: Inside the $250 Billion Betrayal

26:16 - AI War-Gamed Nuclear Crises 21 Times. It Chose Escalation in 95% of Them

27:50 - Imaginary Numbers in Quantum Mechanics May Point to a Reality Deeper Than We Thought

30:42 - DeepMind Suggests AI Should Occasionally Give Humans Busywork So We Don’t Forget How to Do Our Jobs

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https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model

https://medium.com/illumination/the-microsoft-openai-divorce-is-official-inside-the-250-billion-betrayal-822073eba64e

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-ai-escalates-nuclear-action-war.html

https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/imaginary-numbers-in-quantum-mechanics-may-point-to-a-deeper-reality-d399c67caed7

https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-suggests-ai-should-occasionally-assign-humans-busywork-so-we-do-not-forget-how-to-do-our-jobs/

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Anthropology forces a weird realization:A lot of what we think is “human nature” might actually just be local solutions to local conditions.

Let’s explore the multifaceted nature of anthropology, emphasizing its relevance in understanding human behavior, culture, and the implications of artificial intelligence. And discuss various dimensions of being human, including the body, objects, meaning, relationships, power, deep time, language, and the observer's role in anthropology.

My goal is to highlight the importance of context and the interconnectedness of these dimensions in shaping our understanding of humanity.What was the most surprising “dimension” of being human in this video?

CHAPTERS ⤵ 00:00 Anthropology Explained: What Is Anthropology?01:51 How Anthropologists Study Human Behavior02:16 Dimension 1 — The Human Body: Evolution, Biology & Survival03:59 Dimension 2 — The Object World: Archaeology & Material Culture05:40 Dimension 3 — Meaning: Culture, Rituals & Human Beliefs06:38 Dimension 4 — Relationships: Social Networks & Human Cooperation07:58 Dimension 5 — Power: Institutions, Systems & Social Control09:08 Dimension 6 — Deep Time: Human History & Evolutionary Change10:33 Dimension 7 — Language: How Language Shapes Human Thought11:58 Dimension 8 — The Observer: Why Studying Humans Changes the StoryWATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO ⤵ https://youtu.be/bRRbsTYrR-0

In this conversation, Dylan Curious explores various themes surrounding self-doubt, AI technology, and human perception. He discusses how self-doubt can be an optical illusion, the implications of AI in security breaches, and the potential for AI to improve governance. The conversation also delves into the nature of judgment, the impact of robot design on human perception, and the latest advancements in AI related to brainwave data and crisis simulations. Finally, the discussion touches on the signs of dissociation and its effects on human experience.

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This conversation explores various themes surrounding the advancements in AI technology, including its implications for productivity, consciousness, and security. It discusses the innovative applications of AI in fire safety, the concept of AI as a 'vampire' extracting value from human productivity, and the emerging threats in bioscience due to AI. The dialogue also delves into the evolving nature of empathy through AI, the significant investments by tech giants in AI infrastructure, and the vulnerabilities present in self-driving cars. Finally, it touches on the philosophical concept of 'tau' as a measure of reality's coherence.

CHAPTERS  ⤵ 

00:00 - Curious AI News & Other Developments

02:10 - AnchorWeave keeps AI video worlds from warping by “remembering” local space as the camera moves

03:31 - AI Robot Vehicles Team Up to Extinguish Fires

04:54 - The AI Vampire: How Artificial Intelligence Feeds on Human Creativity

06:51 - Consciousness as a virtual organism: a weirdly compelling model of “you”

09:19 - Anthropic Is Killing Bitcoin: Why Some Think AI and Crypto Can’t Coexist

13:24 - Generative AI in bioscience: emerging biosecurity threats and a roadmap to reduce real world risk

15:00 - This Machine Eye Could Give Robots Superhuman Reflexes

17:08 - When Chatbots Start to Sound More Human Than Humans Do

18:41 - Google’s $185B AI spending shock: why the infrastructure race just shifted gears

20:26 - AI Can Hijack Vehicles: New Security Fears for Smart Cars

21:53 - I read OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind safety frameworks, here’s the clear comparison

23:26 - LinkedIn Identity Verification and the Hidden Privacy Tradeoffs

26:12 - 5 subtle ways we make people shut down in conversation, plus safer moves that rebuild closeness

28:49 - 5 subtle ways we make people shut down in conversation, plus safer moves that rebuild closeness

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