If this particular moment in human history, the years we are living, represented a phase change, whose consequences could reverberate with an overwhelming impact for thousands or millions of years into the future, how should we approach it? The Technological Singularity is the moment in the development of human civilization when we connect our brains […]
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I have an AI accent. And I have a Hungarian accent, and Italian accent, a New York accent. Don’t be suprised. Don’t taunt or discriminate me for it. It is how I speak, or write. Yes, the AI accent is the one I most recently acquired. Will it become the strongest? The Pavlovian reflex of
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I was interviewed about cryonics by Barbara Carfagna, a journalist expert in innovation and future, for “Codice – La vita è digitale” (Code – Life is Digital) aired on RAI, the Italian national television broadcaster. Cryonics aims to preserve the vitrified human body, old or sick, at extremely low temperatures, in the hope of future
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The periodic table of elements is a towering achievement of scientific discovery, and of data representation. Its elegant structure, born from the fundamental properties of atomic structure, has revolutionized our understanding of chemistry and the physical world. However, this very success has led to a problematic contemporary trend: the misapplication of the periodic table format
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On my birthday, I asked friends and acquaintances to share their good news instead of just wishing me a happy birthday. I collected stories of recent achievements, positive experiences, and acts of kindness they had witnessed or been part of. The result was a diverse collection of uplifting stories that celebrated the positive aspects of
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If you ask me my age, it is very likely that I will respond with a round number of the decade, not because it will happen that I am 40, 50, or 60 years old, but because it has been my habit to round up and so as of today I will indeed answer that
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I’ve developed a simple approach to numerically score the novelty of ideas, using LLMs. For several years I have been recording my meetings, both internal and external, with the permission of the participants. Lately I have been also passing the meeting transcript through an automated editing step, so that it would read better, with complete
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The most important concept to understand AGI trends, is to realize that the doubling rate of AI compute is shortening. Moore’s law is chugging along at a sedate exponential, doubling every couple of years or so. A self fulfilling prophecy we’ve become accustomed to for over 50 years, bringing us ever more powerful PCs and
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In the latest episode of Searching for the Question Live, I had the pleasure of hosting Adam Dorr from RethinkX, for a conversation about the impending revolution of humanoid robots and AI. Adam painted a picture of a future where robots could outnumber humans 10 to 1, performing tasks we can’t even imagine yet, being
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I had the opportunity to speak with Pete Worden, the director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, aiming to leverage cutting edge technology to enable interstellar travel of automated probes, the Starshot project. Pete Worden, the head of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, has always been fascinated by the idea of interstellar travel. He believes that now is
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