Prof. Brian Keating

Every great scientist is a storyteller.
I interview Nobel winners on @Into_Impossible🎙️
Chancellor's Prof. @UCSanDiego | Pilot | Wrote: Losing the Nobel Prize

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AI solved Erdős problems
AI did not create them

AI solved chess
AI did not create chess

AI solved protein folding
AI did not create proteins

AI solved Go
AI did not create Go

AI can solve our problems.
But can it decide what problems are worth solving?

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Follow my Substack for more Cosmic Magic! https://t.co/WDRKv0F584

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@Polymarket @crumbl Also the speed of light when expressed in mph/mg

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When we think of Alan Turing, we think of AI, the Imitation Game, and The Halting Problem. Tom Griffiths, Princeton Scientist, convinced me that AGI is the wrong way to think about Turing https://t.co/s8YkSp69oY

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@PeterDiamandis Watch the full video here:
https://t.co/zihhWxOoup

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You're Underestimating Today's AI | Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis)

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@UCSanDiego AI doomers left perplexed!

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@PeterDiamandis Watch the full video here:
https://t.co/zihhWxOoup

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AI Is About to Become Wiser Than Any Human Who Ever Lived
Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis)

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@SwipeWright Yet, it’s still more coherent than some recent claims by Michio Kaku

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This week's portion is Behaalotecha (Numbers 8:1) in which God instructs Aaron to kindle the seven lamps of the menorah so they "give light toward the face of the menorah."

The Hebrew behaalotecha literally means "when you raise up" ie not merely "when you light," but when you raise the flame until it rises on its own. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks taught this is the essence of mentorship: kindle others until they burn independently.

For a professor-podcaster that's my daily mandate. The best @Into_Impossible episodes aren't the ones where I try too hard to dazzle; they're the ones where a guest's idea catches fire in the audience's mind and keeps burning. That happened yesterday with my convo with @PeterDiamandis.

Today, as @Nvidia puts a petaflop on every desk and the Pope @Pontifex warns us not to optimize away our humanity, the question this poses is timeless: are you raising flames, or just lighting fires?
📺: https://t.co/kJ4D7fFI8Z

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cc @EMostaque

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AGI is impossible...

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Darwin admitted he used to steal fruit from his father's trees, hide it in the bushes, then run to tell everyone he'd "discovered a hoard of stolen fruit."

The father of natural selection started out as a natural-born hustler.

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See the full conversation https://t.co/FhBtAy8DA6

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I told @neiltyson we've already detected dark matter... But it's not what you think.

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Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis) built more of the future than almost anyone alive.
He founded @xprize.
He co-founded Singularity University with Ray Kurzweil. In his new book, We Are as Gods, he argues that artificial intelligence is changing what it means to be human. I'm not so sure.

https://t.co/kJ4D7fFI8Z

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I sat down with @PeterDiamandis to discuss the bright side of AI and technological abundance.

https://t.co/V59bahjpBj