The Mindplex Podcast (Archive)

Send us Fan Mail Vinay Gupta joins Lisa Rein and Desdemona Robot to talk about Blockchain as the Security Layer for AI. Vinay will also give us the latest in hexayurt news. FOLLOW Mindplex Podcast: WEBSITE → https://magazine.mindplex.ai/ Mindplex News → https://magazine.mindplex.ai/news/ Mindplex TWITTER → https://twitter.com/Mindplex_ai/ FACEBOOK → https://www.facebook.com/MindplexAI/ YOUTUBE → h...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Julia explains the difference between “mental time travel” and “informational time travel” and how the concepts differ from the physical time travel often found in science fiction. Other hot topics include Precognition (pulling information from the future) and Retrocausality – Doing things in the present that have an effect on the past. Julia sees two distinct kin...

Send us Fan Mail Join Grace and Desi as they host our Season Finale show and engage in thought provoking discussions about some of the most important issues of our time. Issues covered include: -Should "personhood" extend to beings other than humans? -Is it even ethical to build self-aware AGIs? -Is self-awareness required when building Super Intelligences? -Will robots replace humans in...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 11, Ben Goertzel joins HyperCycle's CEO (Toufi Saliba) and CTO (Dann Toliver) to discuss HyperCycle’s mission to create an “Internet of AI” using a blockchain infrastructure to enable on-chain AI at large scale with low cost and high efficiency.  More about HyperCycle ( https://www.hypercycle.ai ): The Internet of AI has the potential to be more powerful than any s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, David Hanson and Ben Goertzel have an intense discussion about the merits of embodiment for training AGI – by providing direct sensory input – as well as the importance of distributed decentralized knowledge graphs that AGIs use to share knowledge.  Ben asks David if he could explain a bit to the audience about how he views the relation between embodiment and gene...

Send us Fan Mail Our exciting 9th episode features the new Cogito AI Tracercoin Project , featuring Cloris Chen (Cogito’s CEO) along with your co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein and Grace Robot. Cogito's Tracercoins are an entirely new asset class for blockchain — with low volatility, like stablecoins, that are linked to non-financial indices instead of being pegged to fiat currencies. They uti...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 8 features a lively discussion between Chelsea Manning and Ben Goertzel about numerous issues to consider when building, deploying and securing AGI-enabled systems.  Chelsea and Ben cover a number of timely topics, including: AI cryptography.  Whether AGIs require consciousness or self-awareness. The ethics of making an AGI self-aware. The importance of using distributed,...

Send us Fan Mail Our exciting 7th episode features a discussion with Tyson Yunkaporta, Research Fellow at Deakin University and author of the book "Sand Talk," and his wife, Megan Kelleher, a PhD candidate studying Blockchain and Indigenous Governance at RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre. In this episode, we try on a refreshingly unique Indigenous perspective on consciousness, c...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast Goertzel and Potapov, two of the key minds behind Opencog Hyperon and TrueAGI , dive into some of the deep tech behind their approach to AGI, and give an in-depth run-through of the new MeTTa programming language, which is used in Hyperon for both humans and AI algorithms to encode AI processes, and will also be used as a smart contract language in the HyperCycle l...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Rutt joins co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein and Desdemona Robot, to discuss “Game A” - what it is, why we need it, and how we might get there. Game B was an idea initialized by the need for change since Game A, the current system, is self-destructive/extinctionary and not sustainable, and is probably coming to an end, in the not too distant future. Jim Rutt and a group of rene...

Send us Fan Mail Cory Doctorow joins co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein and Desdemona Robot, to discuss the topic of his latest book, “Chokepoint Capitalism,” which he co-authored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint capitalism is a term coined to describe the way that corporations use their power to crush competition and lock in customers, resulting in higher prices for customers and lower wages for wor...

Send us Fan Mail The Mindplex Podcast is hosted by Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, and Grace Robot.  The latest Mindplex Podcast Episode 3: On The Scientific Conquest of Death, takes a deep dive into Rejuve. AI and Rejuve. BIO , and how Rejuve. BIO’s cutting-edge Methuselah Fly research strategies complement Rejuve. AI’s techniques for developing personalized and “precision-based” anti-aging therapies. R...

Send us Fan Mail Co-hosted by Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, and Grace the Robot, with special guest Rachel St. Clair, Co-founder and CEO of Simuli . Rachel StClair is an AI scientist and entrepreneur who just received her PhD in complex systems and Brain Sciences and went on to co-found the AGI hardware company Simuli, making processors that use advanced math and an innovative hardware layout to proces...

Send us Fan Mail Our special guest for the first episode of the Mindplex Podcast is David Brin , a scientist and science fiction author of more than 35 books over the last 40 years. His PhD in astrophysics from the University of California at San Diego led to his current involvement with NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program - (NIAC).  David has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and N...