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Now , our next speaker is working on

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connections of a different variety ,

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not just human to human as we work

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through this and kind of think this

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thought out . I I wanna give you guys a

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question here to kind of pause it

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because today we've been thinking about

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partners and allied nations , wingmen

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in and out of the lab collaborators .

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But what if you had the chance to talk

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to somebody different ? What if you had

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the likes to talk to Marie Curie

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Einstein , Isaac Newton , someone from

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the past to help inform a problem in

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the present . Doctor Alex Allen is

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exploring this very idea through our

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lens of general intelligence and trying

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to show that the right connections .

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Well , a lot more could be possible

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without further ado . Let's let the man

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himself explain it . Please welcome to

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the stage , Doctor Alan Neese . As he

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goes through his talk , Helen Keller ,

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Chad G BT and Einstein .

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Imagine a child going blind and deaf at

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19 months old . Imagine this child not

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getting professional help for five

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years . This was the story of Helen

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Keller . Yet she managed to master

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five languages . She published a dozen

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books and became a renowned speaker ,

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her teacher and companion for the next

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50 years , Miss Annie Sullivan arrived

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in 1887 five years after Helen had gone

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blind and deaf . Within a month ,

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running cool water on one of Helen's

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hands and he made signing symbols on

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Helen's other hand , which Helen

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suddenly realized represented a code

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for water . This was the moment Helen

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Keller joined our world . Hello , I'm

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doctor Alex Allen . I've served in the

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air force , worked in industry ,

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academia and government . I'm a

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principal physicist at a FRL . Thanks

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to a FRL . I get to work with space

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force , army navy marines , our allies ,

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industry and academia . Each like my

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wife's career dedicated to protecting

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our democracies . I also happen to

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be a former Los Alamos nuclear weapons

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physicist . So I appreciate the

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challenges nation states face in

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acquiring the know how of nuclear

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explosives . Today's experts in

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artificial general intelligence or A G

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I tell us A G I will take its place

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besides nuclear and biological weapons

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as another source of existential risk .

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Unlike nuclear weapons , powerful A G I

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technologies are at the fingertips of

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eight year olds , criminal enterprises ,

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Dictatorships . In order to understand

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the promises and threats of A G I , we

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need a theory of general intelligence .

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An approach to such a theory hit me one

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day in my garage lab when I was

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thinking about Helen Keller . This

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inspiration led me to , I'm not kidding

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you . The building an avatar of Albert

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Einstein . You can talk to Einstein ,

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you can ask about favorite foods ,

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World War Two and atom bombs or the

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theory of general relativity . I'm

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gonna walk you through a 30 plus year

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thought experiment that'll probably

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last the rest of my life . It will go

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from Helen Keller to Einstein avatar to

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a framework for measuring general intel

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intelligence that may be useful to

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produce general intelligence in

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order to understand how Helen Keller

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could have built the complex richness

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of the world inside her mind using only

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a sense of touch . I imagine someone

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using peg boards to record her

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association of water to related

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concepts to drinking water , to boiling

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water , to cook vegetables , to boiling

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water , to wash whites on an adjacent

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peg board dedicated to beverages ,

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coffee , tea , and so on . There'd be

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lots of links going back and forth .

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We'd soon need to move to a tall tower

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with balconies on each floor to put

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more peg boards on to continue our

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connection process . We'd bring over

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the uh peg boards from the previous

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slide on all things water at home and

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put them on the 15th floor . The 14th

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floor , we dedicate to uh weather and

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water , rain , snow , thunderstorms ,

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and hurricane the 16th floor . We

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dedicate to bodies of water , lakes ,

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rivers , swimming pools and oceans .

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We'd soon need to move into a taller

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tower , the 30th 4 , we dedicate to

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world history and we'd send a link from

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hurricane on the 14th floor to the

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sinking of many of the ships of the

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Spanish Armada coming to conquer Queen

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Elizabeth England . Decades later , as

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a renowned speaker , we'd be in the

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tallest tower . It's spider web

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framework , capturing a representation

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of Helen Keller's understanding of the

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world at the apex of her life . It's

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what we do . We build complex spider

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web uh representations of our existence .

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Well , in order to test the utility of

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this idea , I turned to Albert Einstein ,

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I translated the idea of peg boards

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with pictures with sentences to text

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files with sentences with probabilities .

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There's a , a floor on special

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relativity with sentences on special

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relativity . There's a floor on general

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relativity with sentences on general

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relativity . There's a floor on wives ,

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friends , Children and so on . And I

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stopped at 100 and one floors . The 101

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floor , Einstein Avatar Tower looks

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like this . These are 101

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text files or floors in 3d . The fourth

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floor contains a text file with

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sentences on music . The 15th floor

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contains a text file with sentences on

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cosmology . If we go to the fourth

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floor , we'd find sentences on Mozart

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Beethoven Brahms and classical music

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that Einstein had thoughts on those

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strings in Einstein avatar represent

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probabilities , linking sentences

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within a floor and between floors or ,

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or files . I assign these probabilities

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based on Einstein's history or my

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understanding of his physics . Some of

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those strings are thick corresponding

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to high probabilities . Some are thin

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corresponding to low probabilities

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to add life to this construct . I added

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100 and one chatbots customer service

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chatbots often give us frustratingly

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wrong answers . Einstein Avatar is not

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dumb if you ask it . Did Mozart help

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your creativity when you were

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developing relativity , Einstein Avatar

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will find the floor on music and the

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best sentence listening to Mozart

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allowed me to relax and focus . Mozart

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boosted my creativity when I created

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both theories of relativity . Some

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possible fall on replies from the same

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floor . Uh Wagner was more popular than

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Hitler , I mean than Mozart during the

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Hitler years or from the floor on

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friends , Michelle Besso was my best

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friend and created a sounding board

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during my youth . The relation between

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these sentences being either Mozart or

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creativity if you didn't know this , I

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uh chai pt can take on the persona of

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famous people . Einstein being one of

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them . Well , since the sentences in

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Einstein , text files don't change . I

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had chat G bt rephrase the Einstein

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Avatar sentences using Einstein's

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persona for fun . I found a bot that

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speaks with Einstein's voice , right ?

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I formulated the theories of relativity

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engaging in Mozart's compositions

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amplified my creative faculties . We're

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still on the same sentence listening to

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Mozart boosted my creativity . It's

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just been rephrased by Chat GP T and

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Einstein's voice . However , chat GP T

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alone hallucinates it drifts off it

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invents false facts . Einstein Avatar

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can't because its links are based on

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facts . So what do we have so far ?

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We have a spider web framework for

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general intelligence of interest to the

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mod Sim community . We go through life

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connecting bits of information . In

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kindergarten . Our view of the world is

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very simple and we make the connection

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that fish live in oceans a little

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bit later , that oceans form part of a

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planet . And somewhat later that fish

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evolved from simpler life . And after a

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whole lot of learning , we come to

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appreciate the challenges of commercial

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fishing versus climate change .

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Eventually , our realities get very

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rich and there's a lot of math to

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measure and exploit these graph

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networks .

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Chad GP T 3.5 . Think about this

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couldn't draw a square when I asked it

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to relate Queen Elizabeth England and

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hurricane . Eventually chat GP T four

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connected the dots into a square . Oh A

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hurricane did a lot of damage to the

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ships of the Spanish armada coming to

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conquer Queen Elizabeth's England . We

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shouldn't be afraid of A G until it can

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create spider web frameworks as rich or

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richer than ourselves .

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While spider web framework technology

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can power avatars . It's agency or self

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determination . That's the real goal of

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A G I research . I'm working on it for

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data . I'm using a trilogy that I wrote

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that spans from 1926 to a landing on

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Mars in 2050 beyond . Main characters

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will begin with empty spider web

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frameworks as my algorithms read the

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books , the spider web frameworks will

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get richer with every turn of the page

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halfway through the trilogy . Maybe

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I'll give the characters motivation and

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choice and I'll get as many trilogies

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as computationally possible . Maybe

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I'll plug the characters into the

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internet and see what happens . How

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smart might they get about our world .

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Next . I'll give the main character

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loosely based on Lisa Meitner , the

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woman who first figured out that

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uranium fission bombs were possible

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step by step notes on physics that I

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wrote from 1834 when quantum mechanics

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was discovered , not understood at that

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time to today's theories of modern

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physics to see what happens . I

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expect limited results because some

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types of intelligence probably aren't

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fully amenable to spider web framework

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methods alone . Say intuition , you can

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try this , like do it yourself .

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Biology kits , you can find this stuff

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online . Why ? 30 plus years

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into my thought experiment on general

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intelligence ? Why ? Because as Aaron

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Sorkin wrote because it's next because

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we came out of the cave and we looked

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over the hill and we saw fire and we

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crossed the ocean and we pioneered the

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West and we took to the sky . The

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history of human exploration is hung on

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a timeline of exploration and this ,

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this is what's next . Let's roll a FRL .

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Thank you .

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OK . Thank you .

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Oh

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Wow . Once again , an incredible talk

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there . And what's amazing about the

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ideas posed here is just think about

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the possibilities , really think about

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it if we could talk to anybody in the

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past to inform us now in the present .

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I mean , I mentioned this is gonna come

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back with my history minor . I had some

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thoughts on this and I was like , you

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know what , I can finally ask some hard

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hitting history related questions like ,

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hey Lin , what helps shape your ideas

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of geometry ? I see it took a second .

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We got there , we got there . But jokes

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aside , I warn you , I warn you . But

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jokes aside , let's dig an Einstein to

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see how brilliant this is . So , thank

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you again , Doctor Allen for everything

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you shared up here . That was awesome .

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Another round of applause , everybody .