Tim Ventura Interviews

Tim Ventura Interviews

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Tim Ventura Interviews episodes

  • Mark Sokol - Inside The Antigravity Lab
    Mark Sokol provides an after-hours tour of Falcon Space, the world's first dedicated Antigravity research lab.
    Mark will discuss the latest projects underway in the lab, along with the tools used to create them and scientific test equipment used to validate the results.
    This includes the addition of a Vacuum Vapor Deposition machine for thin-film metamaterial manufacturing for use in various experiments including Alzofon, a fully-shielded Faraday cage with external strain-gauge for measuring weight loss in test samples.
    Mark will also describe the lab's attempt to manufacture the now infamous “Art's Parts” UFO skin sample consisting of Bismuth Zinc and Magnesium along with their oxide layers for test in the EPR Alzofon setup.
    Additionally, they will also going to be giving the Podklenov Gravity Impulse Experiment another shot with a much more accurate replication including a custom-made acrylic vacuum chamber and massive Helmholtz coils.
    Mark will discuss replication attempt of the Manelles thermoelectric conversion device and a custom-made magnet conditioner that allows the creation of scalar magnetic fields in a ferrite magnet.
    We conclude with a brief discussion of more mundane EV technologies, including an unboxing of our 220v tesla Wall-charger and Mark's massively parallel battery testing & conditioning apparatus.
    27 min
  • Gary Voorhis - UAP Navy Encounters
    Gary Voorhis discusses the 2004 Nimitz UAP Navy Encounters, including day & night visual UAP sightings, radar & sonar returns, the Ballistic Missile Warning system alerts, F/A-18F Super Hornet intercepts, and UAP flight performance.
    Gary Voorhis is a retired Petty Officer on the USS Princeton who describes picking numerous UAPs on radar during the 2004 'USS Nimitz UFO incident'. Not only was Voorhis deeply involved in the 2004 UAP encounter, he is one of the only personnel with multiple visual sightings of the UAPs during the day & night.
    Gary has a background in mechanical engineering, and working as an electronic and RF technician. He was a fire control-man and Aegis Computer/ CEC technician in the United States Navy. His responsibilities included the operation, maintenance, and repair of the Aegis weapon systems and non-Aegis senor systems for the purpose of testing and evaluating experimental upgrades to the Aegis baseline 6.1 and Cooperative Engagement Systems or CEC for short.
    The initial incident in Nov started with radar techs getting “ghost tracks” and “clutter” on the radars, led to concerns that the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) and AEGIS Combat System or the new AN/SPY-1B passive radar system was malfunctioning, so the the air control systems were taken down and recalibrated in an effort to clear out what was thought to be false radar returns – but once the recalibration was done, the tracks were actually sharper and clearer.
    These initial tracks would sometimes be at an altitude of 60,000 to 80,000 feet, but other times as low as 30,000 feet only traveling at 100 knots. Their radar cross sections didn’t match any known aircraft; had no IFF or transponder signals.
    On November 10, 2004, roughly 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, Kevin Day started noticing strange radar tracks yourself near San Clemente Island, in groups of 5 to 10 at a time at around 28,000 feet and traveling at a hundred knots, tracking south.
    Gary Voorhis used heavily magnified binoculars to spot these objects visually from the bridge – and said there were visible moving erratically during the daytime, and gave off a phosphorus glow as they hovered and then darted about at night.
    The visual sightings were based on radar returns – so the objects would show up on radar, and then Voorhis would get a bearing and sighted them visually. Additionally, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) radar systems had detected the UAPs in low Earth orbit before they dropped down to 80,000 feet. This anomalous activity and sightings continued for close to a week.
    The incident that made headlines involved Commander David Fravor attempting an intercept with these anomalies on November 14. He was flying an F/A-18F Super Hornet with the call sign FastEagle01, and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight was flying another Super Hornet with the call sign FastEagle02, and they were initially headed to a Combat Air Patrol point for training exercises.
    When Fravor and Slaight did the intercept, they noticed a disturbed patch of water, where it appeared as if there was a large object, possibly a downed aircraft, submerged 10 to 15 feet below the surface. They also spotted a white UAP above that, shaped like a large cylindrical butane tank, or a Tic-Tac candy, which they estimated at around 56 feet in length and 10–15 feet wide.
    Fravor performed a maneuver to get closer to the UAP, but it accelerated across his nose heading south and was gone within a second. Lt. Cmdr Slaight described the acceleration as if it was “shooting out of a rifle”, and the disturbance in the water disappeared.
    After the UAP accelerated away at high speed, you spotted it on radar waiting precisely at the Combat Assembly Point, which was predetermined and secret.
    Links:
    https://www.uapexpedition.org/
    37 min
  • Anastasia Egorova - The Open Longevity Project
    We’re joined today by Anastasia Egorova, the Founder & CEO of Open Longevity and Vice-President at the Science for Life Extension Foundation.
    Anastasia has a background in business, creative design, and studied molecular biology/physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and clinical monitoring at MGMSU.
    She joins us today to discuss the goals, research, and progress happening in longevity and life-extension, and describe how community activism and organizations are helping improve anti-aging medicine.
    Links & Resources:
    https://scienceagainstaging.com/
    https://openlongevity.org/
    https://www.facebook.com/nst.egorova
    34 min
  • Martin Ciupa - AI Ethics, Human Bias & Decision Making
    “The Ghost In The Machine” is us...our implicit human bias & potentially flawed assumptions based on limited situational knowledge. In a world where artificial intelligence plays an increasingly important and automatomous role in decision-making how do we ensure we give it our best nature, not our beast nature?
    We’re joined today by Martin Ciupa, a subject matter expert on artificial intelligence. Martin is the CEO of Remoscope Inc, an AI-based Telehealth startup, and an advisor & consultant to Mindmaze, a Unicorn Neurotech company focuses on applying advanced neuroscience to everyday life. Martin has decades of experience in computing and artificial intelligence, PhD studies in AI, and a Master’s Degree in Cybernetics.
    In a statement from The Guardian: "Great Britain and the United States have both started funding research into aerial drones that decide who they kill, and of the 36 countries currently using armed drones, analyst Paul Scharre says it’s “very likely that nations will invest in autonomous technology, if nothing else out of fear that their adversaries are doing so.”
    So today we're discussing “the ghost in the machine” for artificial intelligence, and by that I mean human flaws, bias, and perceptions. We'll also be touching on Gilbert Ryle/Arthur Koestler, bias in bias out, monsters of the Id, Altruism, Asimov's laws (and their problems) having a moral compass, tuning/ testing that it’s compatible to an ethics panel, the possibility of benign overload, Philosopher kings. Popper Open Society objections. Transhumanism Symbiosis/Suicide of the Mind, and alternatives. Etc
    Links & Resources:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-ciupa-76418b17/
    Mindmaze: https://www.mindmaze.com/
    Remoscope: https://www.facebook.com/Remoscope-102738778617622/
    50 min
  • Wayne Phelps - Drone Warfare & Remote Killing Machines
    Wayne Phelps, author of "On Killing Remotely: The Psychology Of Killing With Drones", joins us to explore human decision-making in a future dominated by Artificial Intelligence & automation.
    Wayne Phelps is a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and author of “On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones”, available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L4LNL7R/.
    During his military career, Wayne deployed five times, including two deployments to Afghanistan and two deployments to Iraq. He was amongst the first conventional troops on the ground in Pakistan after 9/11. He also participated in the initial invasion into Iraq in 2003 and the troop surge into Afghanistan in 2010. He commanded units at every level from Platoon to Squadron, served as an instructor at the Marine Corps’ premier aviation training squadron and a staff officer in the Pentagon.
    In 2014 he was selected to become an RPA pilot and he attended the Air Force’s Undergraduate Pilot Training becoming the first Marine honor graduate. His last assignment was as the Commanding Officer of Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron Three (VMU-3) in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. As the Commanding Officer, he deployed four remotely piloted aircraft detachments to conduct counter-terrorism operations against violent extremist organizations.
    We start out by exploring the evolution of the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Drone into the armed MQ-9 Reaper, and some of the psychological effects associated with flying an armed vs. surveillance aircraft. We also discuss some of the advantages & challenges associated with remotely piloted vehicles - and perceptual changes from flying remotely piloted vehicles in crews assigned to them.
    Drone aircraft are the beginning, and we explore how the cost & safety benefits of RPV's are being applied to tanks & land vehicles such as the Milrem TheMIS, Ripsaw M5 Robo-Tank, Miloš UGV, Gladiator TUGV, Foster-Miller TALON, and more. We also discuss robotic platforms such as the the GNOME, FEDOR, and well-known Boston Dynamics Atlas.
    Great Britain and the USA are both exploring Artificial Intelligence to allow drones to decide when to pull the trigger themselves, which takes the ultimate control of warfare out of direct human hands and moves people into a planning & oversight capacity. Is this a good thing, and what does it mean for remote killing machines if they can operate autonomously?
    In the space of 20 years, we’ve gone from remote piloted surveillance aircraft to fully automated killing machines that make their own decisions about combat. This is a slippery slope to an uncertain future and it is worth discussing the meaning of these changes to warfare now, rather than later.
    Links & Resources
    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L4LNL7R/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynephelps/
    34 min
  • Julia Mossbridge - Time Travel, Remote Viewing & Consciousness
    Dr. Julia Mossbridge discusses the nature of time & reverse causality in photons, and how it applies to precognitive abilities and remote viewing in human beings. We're also discussing the nature of consciousness, the scientific study of remote viewing, and different models of time in science & physics.
    Julia has a PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University, an MA in Neuroscience from UC San Francisco, and a BA with Honors in Neuroscience from Oberlin College.
    For the past 15 years she’s been studying the psychology, physiology, and physics of precognition and time travel. As an internationally renowned expert on prediction, she has addressed audiences around the world in her work shaping the field of time travel, and recently became the President of the Society for Scientific Exploration.
    She’s taught intensives on precognitive forecasting to executives at Google [X] and at the Vail Symposium, invented and patented the Choice Compass app, and currently pursues her mental time travel and precognition research as funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and Bial Foundations.
    She joins us today to discuss her research into cognitive neuroscience, predictive abilities, and the mysteries of the human mind.
    Links:
    Julia Mossbridge: https://noetic.org/profile/julia-mossbridge/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-mossbridge/
    39 min
  • David Stuckenberg - Genesis Systems & Global Water Scarcity
    Dr. David Stuckenberg discusses global water scarcity and Genesis Systems' technology for generating mass-scale drinking water out of thin air.
    Dr. David Stuckenberg is a national security strategist, entrepreneur, inventor, and global influencer. In 2018 and 2019, NATO named David a "Young Disruptor.” He has been called “the George Kennan of this century” by senior military leaders and “a National Treasure,” by the 16th Director of Central Intelligence, Ambassador R. James Woolsey.
    David’s experience includes past roles as an Air Force Strategic Policy Fellow, Military Advisor to the Department of State, and Director of the Electromagnetic Task Force on the Joint Staff.
    David Stuckenberg, has a Ph.D. in International Security Affairs & Policy from King’s College London, he studied hybrid warfare and its impact on NATO and contemporary deterrence constructs. His research is cross-disciplinary and covers elements of war studies, social studies, strategy, international relations, history, and technology and science.
    He currently serves as COO of Genesis Systems combating global water scarcity and joins us today to discuss the scope and impact of global water scarcity and how his company Genesis Systems is working to provide water security around the globe.
    Links & Resources:
    Genesis Systems: https://genesissystems.global/
    Genesis Promo Video (2022): https://vimeo.com/602126682
    David Stuckenberg (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-stuckenberg/
    38 min
  • Mikhail Burtsev - Artificial Intelligence Trends & Predictions
    We’re joined by Dr. Mikhail Burtsev to discuss trends in Artificial Intelligence and applications in medicine, financial markets, personal digital assistants, Google LaMDA, Ray Kurzweil's Technological Singularity, and how open-source community software is helping drive this field forward for scientists and innovators across the globe.
    Mikhail is the scientific director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI), and a head of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). Mikhail is also founder and leader of open-source conversational AI framework DeepPavlov, and has a PhD in Computer Science from the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and an MA in Microelectronics from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
    Our discussion begins with a focus on artificial intelligence in medicine, including research applications in genetics and virology, including how AI can be used to identify protein binding sites and perform more accurate cancer screenings.
    We'll also be talking about financial systems, and whether AI will be useful for tasks like FOREX or cryptocurrency trading, or maybe predicting the stock market. If so, does that create ethical issues with an unfair advantage for companies using it for profit?
    In terms of natural language processing, Google LaMDA has recently been in the news when researcher Blake Lemoine posted transcripts of conversations which led him to believe the program had become sentient. We'll be discussing Mikhail's thoughts on this, and how it relates to his own work organizing a series of academic conversational AI challenges, including NIPS 2017, NeurIPS 2018, EMNLP 2020, NeurIPS 2021. This question
    Additionally, we'll be exploring the validity of the Turing test in today's world, and Ray Kurzweil's date of 2029 the date “for when an AI will pass a valid Turing test and therefore achieve human levels of intelligence”. Finally, we'll touch on Kurzweil's prediction of human-level AI by 2029, but also predicted a date for a Technological Singularity by 2045, where self-improving AI will lead to a new form of super intelligent sentient AI.
    #AI #artificialintelligence #deeppavlov #neuralnetwork #deeplearning #google #lamda #siri #computing #science #technology #medicine
    Links & Resources:
    Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI): https://airi.net/
    DeepPavlov: https://deeppavlov.ai/
    DeepPavlov (Github): https://github.com/deepmipt/DeepPavlov
    Mikhail Bertsev (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikhail-burtsev-85a47b9/
    Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at MIPT: https://mipt.ru/english/research/labs/neural-networks-and-deep-learning-lab
    35 min
  • Kevin Day - UAP Navy Encounters
    We’re joined by Kevin Day to discuss the Nimitz UAP Navy Encounters in Nov 2004, including the initial UAP sightings, radar returns & recalibration, the Ballistic Missile Warning system alerts, Cmdr. Fravor & Slaight F/A-18F Super Hornet intercepts, and performance of the UAPs.
    Kevin is a retired United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer, and we're dis Kevin is a former Operations Specialist and TOPGUN Air Intercept Controller with more than 20 years’ experience in Strike Group air defense including war-time operations. He’s an expert operator of the highly advanced SPY-1 radar system with years of service onboard AEGIS equipped ships including the VINCENNES, CHOSIN, and PRINCETON, and has logged hundreds of air-to-air intercepts of suspect aircraft in both training and war-time operations.
    In Nov 2004, Kevin was stationed on the USS Princeton as the CIC Operations Specialist Senior as the Nimitz carrier group went underway in early November 2004 for a training exercise. Former Petty Officer 3rd Class Gary Voorhis told Popular Mechanics that “The group was going to be deploying in a few months and there was a bunch of new systems, like the Spy-1 Bravo radar.”
    The initial incident in Nov started with radar techs getting “ghost tracks” and “clutter” on the radars, led to concerns that the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) and AEGIS Combat System or the new AN/SPY-1B passive radar system was malfunctioning, so the the air control systems were taken down and recalibrated in an effort to clear out what was thought to be false radar returns – but once the recalibration was done, the tracks were actually sharper and clearer.
    These initial tracks would sometimes be at an altitude of 60,000 to 80,000 feet, but other times as low as 30,000 feet only traveling at 100 knots. Their radar cross sections didn’t match any known aircraft; had no IFF or transponder signals.
    On November 10, 2004, roughly 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, Kevin started noticing strange radar tracks yourself near San Clemente Island, in groups of 5 to 10 at a time at around 28,000 feet and traveling at a hundred knots, tracking south.
    Gary Voorhis used heavily magnified binoculars to spot these objects visually from the bridge – and said there were visible moving erratically during the daytime, and gave off a phosphorus glow as they hovered and then darted about at night.
    The visual sightings were based on radar returns – so the objects would show up on radar, and then Voorhis would get a bearing and sighted them visually. Additionally, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) radar systems had detected the UAPs in low Earth orbit before they dropped down to 80,000 feet. This anomalous activity and sightings continued for close to a week.
    The incident that made headlines involved Commander David Fravor attempting an intercept with these anomalies on November 14. He was flying an F/A-18F Super Hornet with the call sign FastEagle01, and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight was flying another Super Hornet with the call sign FastEagle02, and they were initially headed to a Combat Air Patrol point for training exercises.
    When Fravor and Slaight did the intercept, they noticed a disturbed patch of water, where it appeared as if there was a large object, possibly a downed aircraft, submerged 10 to 15 feet below the surface. They also spotted a white UAP above that, shaped like a large cylindrical butane tank, or a Tic-Tac candy, which they estimated at around 56 feet in length and 10–15 feet wide.
    Fravor performed a maneuver to get closer to the UAP, but it accelerated across his nose heading south and was gone within a second. Lt. Cmdr Slaight described the acceleration as if it was “shooting out of a rifle”, and the disturbance in the water disappeared.
    After the UAP accelerated away at high speed, you spotted it on radar waiting precisely at the Combat Assembly Point, which was predetermined and secret.
    Links & Resources:
    Kevin Day: https://www.amazon.com/Sailors-Anthology-Kevin-M-Day/dp/1688423958
    UAPx: https://www.uapexpedition.org/
    27 min
  • Martin Ciupa - Artificial Intelligence & Google LaMDA
    We’re joined by Martin Ciupa to discuss Artificial Intelligence, Google LaMDA, The Singularity, AI Emotions, and much more...
    Martin Ciupa is a subject matter expert on artificial intelligence recognized as being in the top 100 experts in this field worldwide. He's the CEO of Remoscope Inc, an AI-based Telehealth startup, and an advisor & consultant to Mindmaze, a Unicorn Neurotech company focuses on applying advanced neuroscience to everyday life.
    Martin has decades of experience in computing and artificial intelligence, PhD studies in AI, and a Master’s Degree in Cybernetics. He joins us today to discuss some of today’s most interesting questions about artificial intelligence.
    We're starting out with ELIZA, “an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum”. Online chatbots based similar to that ancient code are being called “Artificial Intelligence” by the business community. Is it confusing the general public?
    Ray Kurzweil predicted human-level Artificial General Intelligence this would be achieved in 2029 the date “for when an AI will pass a valid Turing test and therefore achieve human levels of intelligence”. Are we ahead of schedule for Kurzweil’s predicted breakthrough?
    The big question of the day is about Google LaMDA - is it sentient? Google researcher Blake Lemoine recently posted transcripts online from chat sessions with this natural language system that led him to believe it is sentient. Google says he’s mistaken, others aren’t so sure – what do you think, and if not, is it an indication that we’re getting close?
    The benchmark for artificial intelligence is called the “Turing test”, and in its original form the idea was that if a chatbot could convince a human that it was more human another person on chat, then it passed the test. Will advances like LaMDA render the Turing test obsolete, or does it mean that by 20th century standards this system is truly AI?
    Going beyond the Turing test, one of the big challenges with LaMDA and chatbots in general is distinguishing between the ability to construct meaningful speech and true artificial intelligent. The distinction is something called “qualia”, which is defined as “individual instances of subjective, conscious experience”, and may require some facsimile of human emotions as well - something called "affective computing".
    Ray Kurzweil predicted human-level AI by 2029, but also predicted a date for the Singularity by 2045, where self-improving AI will lead to a new form of super intelligent sentient AI. Martin discusses whether the The Singularity is likely to happen by that date, and what will be required in order for it to become reality - if we even want it to.
    The risks of runaway AI were popularized back in 1984 with James Cameron’s “The Terminator”, which put in place fears about AI well before the actual technology was invented. We're going to close with AI ethics, and a discussion of whether that series unfairly damaged AI research, or instead provided a valuable warning about to be careful how we design our mind-children in the future.
    Links & Resources:
    Martin Ciupa on LinkedIn:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-ciupa-76418b17/
    50 min

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Expert interviews on UAP, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, physics, defense tech, life-extension, propulsion, consciousness and more. Tim has been interviewing world-changing subject matter experts across a wide scope of professional & academic disciplines for over 20 years – starting back in 2002 with his work at AAG. Over time, what started with the goal of sharing the wisdom of people he respected with the world grew into an online library of expertise focused on expert opinions in space, science, technology, & policy areas.