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Mark’s book “The Hidden Spring” argues that consciousness primarily about feeling, not thinking. Cognitive functions like sight and hearing, including facial recognition, don’t require consciousness. By contrast, you can’t have feelings without it.
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Mark Solms is a Professor at the University of Cape Town, and an advisor to PRISM and Conscium. He researches consciousness with neuropsychoanalysis, which integrates Freudian theory with findings from contemporary neuroscience.
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The results claimed in 1989 by Fleishman and Pons have not been replicated, but Messinger says there is a community of 1,000 or so people still investigating cold fusion – often retired academics and engineers.
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On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comparing the current wave of cognitive automation to historical technological revolutions. We talk… From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)

Machine consciousness as our best bet for safe superintelligence.

Conscium on the Future of Life's latest podcast.

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Nvidia's stock value, at $4.3tn, is now greater than Japan's GDP.

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Nuclear fusion happens when two nuclei are brought so close together that the electromagnetic force (which drives them apart) is overpowered by the strong nuclear force (which brings them together). A tiny amount of mass is converted into energy.
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Chinese AI Researchers Just Put a Monkey's Brain on a Computer This was not on Jane Goodall's bingo card. With 2 billion neurons, researchers say the DeepSeek-powered Darwin Monkey is a major step toward 'brain-like intelligence.'

Darwin Monkey, the largest neuromorphic computer in the world, has 2bn spiking neurons and over 100bn synapses, approaching the number of neurons in a macaque brain.

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The latest LFP guest is Jonah Messinger, from Cambridge University and MIT. He tells us about cold fusion, or low-energy nuclear reactions (LNER), which was first announced in 1989, but has been mostly regarded since then as fringe science.
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Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants…

Demis Hassabis says "we’ll have something that we could sort of reasonably call AGI, that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities humans have, maybe in the next five to 10 years".

It´s the old Bowie song. We´ve got five years.

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On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comparing the current wave of cognitive automation to historical technological revolutions. We talk… From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)

Will machines become conscious? Do we want them to?

Conscium on the Future of Life's latest podcast.

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On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comparing the current wave of cognitive automation to historical technological revolutions. We talk… From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)

The Four Cs of Superintelligence: Cease, Control, Catastrophe, or Celebration.

Conscium on the Future of Life's latest podcast.

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On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comparing the current wave of cognitive automation to historical technological revolutions. We talk… From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)

We’re heading towards a jobless future. The only questions are when, and whether we will be prepared.

Conscium on the Future of Life's latest podcast.

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David expresses the hope that citizen action can mitigate the worst of the risks, using direct action such as boycotts of companies – like Tesla – which they perceive as acting in bad faith.
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On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comparing the current wave of cognitive automation to historical technological revolutions. We talk… From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)

Universal Generous Income, and the bumpy road towards it.

Conscium on the Future of Life's latest podcast.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test “This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.

OpenAI´s in-app AI agent has received mixed reviews, but it can breeze through a Captcha.

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Peter argues that AI security issues are not taken seriously enough, and there may need to be some disastrous incidents before people devote enough attention to them. The risks run the gamut from from quality control to existential risk.
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On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comparing the current wave of cognitive automation to historical technological revolutions. We talk… From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)

Machine consciousness, technological unemployment, and how to survive the arrival of superintelligence.

Conscium on the Future of Life's latest podcast.

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I start by talking about Conscium’s new service of AI agent verification. We’re developing a platform where people who deploy agents will be able to send their agent for testing, to check that it does what it’s supposed to do.
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New paper from Microsoft re-runs the analysis of which jobs will be automated first. Translators come top, which seems right, but passenger assistants? I can't imagine GPT-4 pointing out the exit doors any time soon.
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Hugo explains the business model very clearly in the podcast, if you take the trouble to listen before commenting.
He is lucky enough to have very patient investors.

Zuckerberg signals Meta won't open source all of its 'superintelligence' AI models | TechCrunch Meta is shifting how it plans to ensure widespread access to superintelligence, a suggestion that the company’s most advanced AI may remain closed so that Meta can stay in the driver’s seat.

The transformation of Zuckerberg is now complete?
Nerd to bro.
Democrat to MAGA.
Superintelligence sceptic to hot pursuer.
Open Source to proprietary.
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In this edition of the London Futurists Podcast our guest is Peter Scott, a very experienced and insightful futurist based in Vancouver. The three of us take turns to share what´s on our mind.
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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

Zuckerberg has apparently offered an AI researcher $1bn to join his Superintelligence team.

They refused.

Quite the vote of no confidence.

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Microsoft Seeks Ongoing Access to OpenAI Tech Beyond AGI Milestone Microsoft is negotiating a new deal with OpenAI to retain access to its AI technology even if the startup reaches its AGI goal.

When companies are negotiating who owns what after AGI arrives, you know they're using an eccentric definition of AGI.

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Riversimple is a British Deep Tech company with enormous potential. Hugo claims its business model is also much less vulnerable to the inevitable assault from the formidable Chinese car industry. (10)

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Hugo Spowers champions a circular business model, in which cars are leased, not sold, and all costs - including fuel and maintenance - are met by the lease provider. This optimises lifetime efficiency. No more built-in obsolescence. (9)

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Riversimple’s cars are designed to be a family’s second vehicle for local use only. So the fuelling network can be very local, and built out gradually. (8)

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ChatGPT with GPT 5 tipped for Sora 2 upgrade — here's everything we know Watch out Veo 3

If the biggest change from GPT-4 to GPT-5 (expected next month) is improvements in video creator Sora, then it will be nothing like as jaw-dropping as the progress from GPT-3 to GPT-4.

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Tesla claims it produced the first builds of its 'new affordable' electric car models Tesla claims to have produced the “first builds” of its new “more affordable” electric car models, which are expected to...

After lies and delays, Tesla again promises a cheaper car.

Unlikely that this will be enough to offset the brand damage to Swastikars.

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