#massachusettsinstituteoftechnology #podcast #human #augmentation #technology  "The Same technologies that can upgrade humans into gods might also make humans irrelevant" - #yuvalnoahharari

We are living at a fantastic time in human history, we are at the precipice, the next stage of human evolution....."The Man Machine Convergence".  The choice we make will decide our FUTURE. Pat Pataranutaporn is a technologist and a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he explores the intersection of synthetic virtual humans and synthetic biology, specifically at the interface between biological and digital systems.   He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Fluid Interfaces research group at MIT Media Lab, where he works with his collaborators at NASA, NTT DATA, IBM, and Harvard to examine the future of human-computer integration.  His interdisciplinary research ranges from investigating AI-generated characters for learning and well-being,  human-AI co-reasoning, a wearable lab on the body with programmable bio-digital organ for space exploration, a machine learning model to detect linguistic markers related to mental health issues,  and mind-controlled 3D printer.

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