Podcast appearances and mentions of Calum Chace

In this episode, we return to a theme which is likely to become increasingly central to public discussion in the months and years ahead. To use a term coined by this podcast's cohost Calum Chace, this theme is the Economic Singularity, namely the potential all-round displacement of humans from the workforce by ever more capable automation. That leads to the question: what are our options for managing the transition of society to increasing technological unemployment and technological underemployment.Our guest, who will be sharing his thinking on these questions, is the prolific writer and YouTuber David Shapiro. As well as keeping on top of fast-changing news about innovations in AI, David has been developing a set of ideas he calls post-labour economics – how an economy might continue to function even if humans can no longer gain financial rewards in direct return for their labour.Selected follow-ups:David Shapiro's SubstackDavid Shapiro's channel on YouTubeJulia McCoy's channel on YouTubeNext stop: Miami - WaymoResource Based EconomyDebt: The First 5,000 Years - book by David GraeberBroken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better - book by Lyn AldenThe Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking - book by Saifedean AmmousNormalcy bias - WikipediaWhy Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - book by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. RobinsonPrinciples for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - book by Ray DalioVulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom - book by Grace BlakeleyThe Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and Fully Automated Luxury Capitalism - book by Calum ChaceMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

I am Carlo Pignataro and this is a new episode of Lux & Friends. Today we delve into the fascinating and rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence with a true thought leader in the field, Calum Chace.Calum is a renowned author, speaker, and commentator who has dedicated his ninth career to exploring the profound implications of AI on our lives, society, and future. He's penned several insightful books, including "Surviving AI," "The Economic Singularity," and the science fiction novels "Pandora's Brain" and "Pandora's Oracle." He's also a regular contributor to Forbes and co-founded the Economic Singularity Club, a think tank focused on the future of jobs.Calum's work grapples with some of the biggest questions of our time: How will AI impact the economy and the job market? What are the ethical considerations surrounding superintelligence? And how can we navigate the challenges and opportunities that AI presents?Join us as we pick Calum's brain on these topics and more. We'll discuss his unique perspective on the Economic Singularity, the potential benefits and risks of advanced AI, and his vision for the future in the age of intelligent machines.Buckle up, listeners, because this is going to be a thought-provoking ride! Let's welcome Calum Chace to Lux & Friends.

David Wood and Calum Chace lead the London Futurists, a group that promotes radical scenarios for the future. In this episode they explain how expectations about the future have evolved in the UK during the past 15 years under Tory leadership, and they identify the trends that will shape the next 15 years.  Brett King and Rob Tercek draw comparisons to economic and political trends in the US, Australia and other regions. Topics include populism, geopolitical conflict, immigration, and the pervasive influence of emerging technology on society. 

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   In our now-traditional end-of-year episode, we look back on the year to date and forward to the year to be. I am joined by previous guest Calum Chace, co-host of the London Futurists podcast and author of The Economic Singularity, and Justin Grammens, founder of the AppliedAI conference and podcast. Together, we review what happened with AI in 2023 and make some predictions for 2024. We look back at the impact of large language models such as #ChatGPT and forward to how they will evolve and change the workplace, economy, and society. We also discuss the future of regulation, the EU AI Act, the 2024 US elections, disinformation, and the future of education. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.          

Trong những năm gần đây, ngành công nghiệp dược phẩm, trong đó có ngành dược phẩm của Pháp, sử dụng ngày càng nhiều các ứng dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo, và nhờ vậy đang đẩy nhanh tiến trình bào chế các loại thuốc mới.  Vào tháng 4 năm ngoái, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, một tổ chức phi chính phủ châu Âu, đã khởi động một dự án dùng trí tuệ nhân tạo để tìm thuốc trị bệnh sốt xuất huyết Dengue, trong khuôn khổ một đối tác với BenevolentAI, một công ty Anh Quốc chuyên phát triển các phân tử mới nhờ vào trí tuệ nhân tạo. Công ty khởi nghiệp đi tiên phongThật ra thì trước đó, vào đầu năm 2020, Exscientia, một công ty khởi nghiệp Scotland đã cùng với viện bào chế Sumitomo Dainippon của Nhật chế ra một phân tử đầu tiên hoàn toàn bằng trí tuệ nhân tạo.Còn công ty công nghệ y tế Genetika+ của Israel, do chuyên gia về khoa học thần kinh Cohen Solal đồng sáng lập vào năm 2018, đã nghiên cứu việc kết hợp các công nghệ mới nhất về tế bào gốc với một ứng dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo để giúp xác định thuốc chống trầm cảm thích ứng tốt nhất với bệnh nhân, nhằm tránh các phản ứng phụ và để bảo đảm thuốc có tác dụng hiệu quả nhất có thể. Genetika+ hy vọng là nhu cầu về công nghệ của họ sẽ rất lớn, bởi vì theo Tổ chức Y tế Thế giới, trên toàn thế giới hiện có hơn 280 triệu người mắc chứng trầm cảm. Theo thẩm định có đến 2 phần 3 toa thuốc ban đầu kê cho các bệnh nhân trầm cảm là không có tác dụng gì, vì không thích ứng với bệnh nhân. Công ty khởi nghiệp của Pháp Iktos, được thành lập vào năm 2016, nay chỉ sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo để đối chiếu các khối dữ liệu y tế với một vận tốc mà không bộ não con người nào có thể đạt được. Theo lời Yann Gaston-Mathé, lãnh đạo công ty mà ông là người đồng sáng lập, trí tuệ nhân tạo được sử dụng để “khai thác các dữ liệu hiện có để chế tạo những phân tử mới tốt hơn và nhanh hơn”. Ê kíp của ông đã sử dụng một cơ sở dữ liệu của 100 triệu phân tử và từ cơ sở dữ liệu này họ đã “huấn luyện” một mô hình biết tự động tạo ra những phân tử mới. Iktos thậm chí còn lập một nền tảng nghiên cứu chế tạo phân tử bằng trí tuệ nhân tạo cho các công ty dược phẩm sử dụng dưới hình thức thuê bao. Một trong những công ty đầu tiên sử dụng nền tảng mang tên Saas của Iktos là Kissei, một hãng dược phẩm lớn của Nhật, đã được thành lập từ cách đây gần 75 năm. Nhờ đối tác ký với Iktos, Kissei sẽ tiết kiệm rất nhiều thời gian trong tiến trình khám phá và phát triển các loại thuốc mới.Công ty Insilico Medicine tại Hồng Kông cũng đang sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo để đẩy nhanh việc phát hiện các loại thuốc mới. Ông Alex Zhavoronkov, đồng sáng lập viên và hiện là tổng giám đốc công ty, giải thích: “ Nền tảng trí tuệ nhân tạo của chúng tôi có thể xác định các loại thuốc có thể được tái sử dụng, bào chế các thuốc mới cho những mục tiêu phân tử (cible ) đã được biết, hay tìm ra mục tiêu phân tử mới và chế ra những phân tử mới."Các đại tập đoàn nhập cuộcTrong vài năm trở lại đây, các đại tập đoàn trong ngành dược phẩm cũng đã đầu tư ngày càng nhiều vào các ứng dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo. Ví dụ như tập đoàn Mỹ Bristol-Myers Squibb vào năm 2021 đã ký thỏa thuận hợp tác với Exscientia, dự trù sẽ cấp tổng cộng hơn 1 tỷ đôla để sử dụng các dịch vụ của công ty này.Các đại tập đoàn công nghệ số cũng nhập cuộc: Microsoft vào năm 2019 đã thông báo hợp tác với tập đoàn dược phẩm Novartis của Thụy Sĩ để đẩy nhanh việc sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo trong mỗi giai đoạn của tiến trình bào chế một loại thuốc mới. Thỏa thuận giữa hai tập đoàn này có thời hạn là 5 năm.Tập đoàn dược phẩm Pháp Sanofi cũng đang đẩy mạnh việc sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo không chỉ trong khâu nghiên cứu mà cả trong khâu thương mại hóa. Trong bản thông cáo được công bố ngày 13/06/2023 nhân triển lãm VivaTech Paris 2023, ông Paul Hudson, tổng giám đốc Sanofi, cho biết tham vọng của họ là trở thành tập đoàn dược phẩm đầu tiên sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo ở quy mô lớn, trang bị cho các nhân viên của họ những công cụ và công nghệ giúp họ lấy những quyết định tốt nhất. Theo lời ông Hudson, trí tuệ nhân tạo và khoa học dữ liệu đã trợ giúp rất nhiều cho Sanofi trong các lĩnh vực như phát hiện các thuốc mới, cải thiện hiệu quả của các thử nghiệm lâm sàng, sản xuất và cung ứng thuốc và vac-xin. Trả lời phỏng vấn RFI tại triển lãm VivaTech, ông Emmanuel Frenehard, đặc trách các sản phẩm kỹ thuật số của tập đoàn Sanofi, cho biết thêm:“ Trí tuệ nhân tạo đã được sử dụng từ lâu. Đúng là ChatGPT đã khiến người ta chú ý thêm đến cái được gọi là trí tuệ nhân tạo tạo sinh ( generative AI ), nhưng tập đoàn Sanofi đã sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo trong nhiều lĩnh vực. Nhiệm vụ của Sanofi là tìm ra phép màu của khoa học để cải thiện chất lượng sống của con người. Phép màu đó là những phân tử mới, những loại thuốc mới. Chúng tôi sử dụng large language model ( mô hình ngôn ngữ lớn ) trong trí tuệ nhân tạo tạo sinh để tìm ra những mục tiêu phân tử, chế ra những phân tử mới hiện chưa có. Con số các phân tử chưa được tìm ra nhiều hơn cả con số ngôi sao trong vũ trụ. Tiếp đến chúng tôi dùng trí tuệ nhân tạo để mô phỏng tác dụng của thuốc trên con người, trước khi thử nghiệm thật sự trên con ngườiViệc sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo trong chuỗi cung ứng của Sanofi đã chứng minh khả năng của công nghệ này dự đoán được 80%, giúp cho các ê kíp thi hành các biện pháp để bảo đảm tính liên tục của chuỗi cung ứng.Ngay cả trong việc thương mại hóa, trí tuệ nhân tạo được sử dụng để giúp các nhân viên quảng bá thuốc làm việc hiệu quả hơn, giúp các nhân viên y tế chữa trị bệnh nhân tốt hơn.”Trong việc ứng dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo vào nghiên cứu chế tạo, các tập đoàn dược phẩm như Sanofi cũng dựa vào những công ty khởi nghiệp, theo lời ông Emmanuel Frenehard: “Hãy tưởng tượng là ta tìm ra một phân tử mới. Chúng tôi làm việc với một công ty khởi nghiệp Pháp Mỹ mang tên Owkin. Đối với bốn loại ung thư, ta có thể thử nghiệm ảo để mô phỏng tác dụng của phân tử đó. Nếu phân tử chưa thật sự có hiệu quả, sự mô phỏng đó giúp chúng tôi nghiên cứu sâu hơn. Đó là một ví dụ cụ thể về việc ứng dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo.Đóng góp của Owkin là cung cấp cho các dữ liệu bệnh nhân ( dĩ nhiên đó là những bệnh nhân được giấu tên ), được thu thập từ các bệnh viện, từ các đối tác. Hai bên cùng đạt được những mô hình có thể cho kết quả tốt hoặc kết quả xấu, nhưng đó chỉ hoàn toàn là mô phỏng, để bảo đảm cho các thử nghiệm lâm sàng được thành công mỹ mãn. Tham vọng của chúng tôi là giảm phân nửa thời gian tìm ra một phân tử mới. Chúng tôi không chỉ mô phỏng tác dụng của một loại thuốc mới, mà còn dùng trí tuệ nhân tạo để tìm những mục tiêu phân tử mới, chẳng như có thể tìm ra một protein mới gần như là tức thì, trong khi một người phải mất rất nhiều ngày để tìm ra.Chúng tôi muốn trở thành tập đoàn sinh-dược đi xa nhất trong việc sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo. Điều quan trọng là phải sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo một cách có trách nhiệm, tức là một cách minh bạch, để chúng ta có thể tin tưởng vào nó, giúp tiết kiệm chi phí và giúp giảm bớt tác động đến môi trường. Sự bùng nổ của trí tuệ nhân tạo không làm chúng tôi bất ngờ, vì chúng tôi đã sử dụng công nghệ này từ lâu.”Như vậy phải chăng là sắp tới đây, trong các viện bào chế, sẽ không còn các nhân viên mặc áo blouse trắng cúi đầu vào kính hiển vi để chăm chú nghiên cứu những phân tử mới cho các loại thuốc mới, mà mọi thứ kể từ nay đều sẽ do trí tuệ nhân tạo đảm trách?Không phải như thế, bởi vì hiện vẫn còn nhiều khó khăn lớn trong việc sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo cho việc bào chế thuốc, thứ nhất là việc tiếp cận các dữ liệu có thể khai thác được. Tiếp đến là phải tìm cho ra các chuyên gia tương lai, vừa giỏi về trí tuệ nhân tạo, vừa có kiến thức chuyên môn về dược phẩm học. Mặt khác, như giải thích của Calum Chace, một chuyên gia về trí tuệ nhân tạo, các tập đoàn dược phẩm có quy mô rất lớn và mọi thay đổi quan trọng về cách thức nghiên cứu và phát triển sẽ ảnh hưởng đến rất nhiều người trong nhiều ban. Vị chuyên gia này nhấn mạnh: “ Rất khó mà thuyết phục tất cả những người đó chấp nhận một phương pháp làm việc hoàn toàn mới”Dầu sao thì máy móc sẽ không thể thay thế hoàn toàn nhân loại, nhất là trong một lĩnh vực hệ trọng đối với sức khỏe con người. Như giải thích của tiến sĩ Heba Sailem, chuyên gia về trí tuệ nhân tạo y sinh học, đại học King's College, Luân Đôn, tiềm năng của trí tuệ nhân tạo trong ngành công nghiệp dược phẩm là rất lớn, nhưng ngành này không nên vội vã, mà phải thi hành các biện pháp nghiêm ngặt trước khi dựa vào kết quả dự báo do trí tuệ nhân tạo đưa ra.

Calum Chase, best-selling author, and AI expert and adviser, specializing in the future of AI and its impacts on our societies and economies, has an insightful conversation with Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones about the benefits and challenges of AI. He talks about the future impacts of Artificial Intelligence and how it will affect the future of work, health, and economic sectors. How can curiosity navigate AI's evolving implications? How does curiosity drive AI innovation and progress? What are the challenges and opportunities in harnessing AI's potential for positive impact? Are you curious? About the Curious Advantage Podcast Series The Curious Advantage Podcast series is brought to you by the authors of the book The Curious Advantage, Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown & Garrick Jones and it is about how individuals and organisations use the power of curiosity to drive success in their lives and organisations, especially in the context of our new digital reality. It brings to life the latest understanding from neuroscience, anthropology, history, and behaviourism about curiosity and makes these useful for everyone. Produced by Aliki Paolinelis & Jessica Wickham and edited by Roman Pechersky & Danny Cross About ‘The Curious Advantage' Book The Curious Advantage is an exploration of the idea of Curiosity and its increasing importance for thriving in the digital age. Taking the widest possible exploration of things Curious – historical, contemporary, neuro-scientific, anthropological, behavioural, semantic and business-focused. At the heart of the book is our model of Curiosity, called 'Sailing the 7 C's of Curiosity'. This model provides individuals with a practical framework for how to be successfully Curious and use Curiosity as a power skill to unlock their own potential. To find out more visit: curiousadvantage.com Get your copy on Amazon The Curious Advantage Audiobook is also available on audible

Should we be worried about artificial intelligence? Are you anxious about the implications of AI, and the way in which many say that it will change the world of tomorrow? In this special episode, Paul talks to Calum Chace AKA The AI Guy, a leading authority on the subject, who's here to answer the burning questions about this fascinating topic. Do you want access to even deeper, even more powerful subconscious training content without the intros, exclusive invites to Mindset Change Masterminds, and discounts from workshops? Join the Mindset Change Another Level channel below:patreon.com/mindsetchange Mindset Change WhatsApp Community Link. Contact and social links below: https://mindsetchangeuk.com/useful-links KEY TAKEAWAYS People are not fear-mongering about AI. They are simply aware that its continued use will fundamentally change the way that much of society works, and change always inspires doubt. There are three types of risk that AI raises - privacy and transparency and mass hacking potential. All of these problems are being addressed already. Machines will inevitably take the place of human beings in the workplace, simply because it makes more economical sense. This is nothing new. Machines have taken the place of humans for hundreds of years. Manual jobs are safer than thought-driven professions as robotics has not progressed at the same rate as AI machine learning. BEST MOMENTS 'It's a very powerful technology. It's getting more powerful at an exponential rate' 'We are very likely to get a point where machines can do everything that we can do, but cheaper and better and faster' 'The outcome is not necessarily bad' 'Robotics is improving at an incredible rate' VALUABLE RESOURCES Mindset Change Podcast Mindset Change Coaching The Mindset Coach UK Instagram Mindset Change YouTubehttps://www.calum-chace.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Paul Sheppard Paul Sheppard is a life-transforming anxiety and mindset coach, hypnotherapist, and host of the top ten Mindset Change podcast. He is on a mission with his holistic approach to help everybody set themselves free from limiting mindsets and feel less anxious and more empowered. Paul coaches people 121 or in groups online around the world, and you can reach him here.This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

The 4 Cs of Superintelligence is a framework that casts fresh light on the vexing question of possible outcomes of humanity's interactions with an emerging superintelligent AI. The 4 Cs are Cease, Control, Catastrophe, and Consent. In this episode, the show's co-hosts, Calum Chace and David Wood, debate the pros and cons of the first two of these Cs, and lay the groundwork for a follow-up discussion of the pros and cons of the remaining two.Topics addressed in this episode include:*) Reasons why superintelligence might never be created*) Timelines for the arrival of superintelligence have been compressed*) Does the unpredictability of superintelligence mean we shouldn't try to consider its arrival in advance?*) Two "big bangs" have caused dramatic progress in AI; what might the next such breakthrough bring?*) The flaws in the "Level zero futurist" position*) Two analogies contrasted: overcrowding on Mars , and travelling to Mars without knowing what we'll breathe when we'll get there*) A startling illustration of the dramatic power of exponential growth*) A concern for short-term risk is by no means a reason to pay less attention to longer-term risks*) Why the "Cease" option is looking more credible nowadays than it did a few years ago*) Might "Cease" become a "Plan B" option?*) Examples of political dictators who turned away from acquiring or using various highly risky weapons*) Challenges facing a "Turing Police" who monitor for dangerous AI developments*) If a superintelligence has agency (volition), it seems that "Control" is impossible*) Ideas for designing superintelligence without agency or volition*) Complications with emergent sub-goals (convergent instrumental goals)*) A badly configured superintelligent coffee fetcher*) Bad actors may add agency to a superintelligence, thinking it will boost its performance*) The possibility of changing social incentives to reduce the dangers of people becoming bad actors*) What's particularly hard about both "Cease" and "Control" is that they would need to remain in place forever*) Human civilisations contain many diametrically opposed goals*) Going beyond the statement of "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to a starting point for aligning AI with human values?*) A cliff-hanger endingThe survey "Key open questions about the transition to AGI" can be found at https://transpolitica.org/projects/key-open-questions-about-the-transition-to-agi/Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

On March 14th, OpenAI launched GPT-4 , which took the world by surprise and storm. Almost everybody, including people within the AI community, was stunned by its capabilities. A week later, the Future of Life Institute (FLI) published an open letter calling on the world's AI labs to pause the development of larger versions of GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) models until their safety can be ensured.Recent episodes of this podcast have presented arguments for and against this call for a moratorium. Jaan Tallin, one of the co-founders of FLI, made the case in favour. Pedro Domingos, an eminent AI researcher, and Kenn Cukier, a senior editor at The Economist, made variants of the case against. In this episode, co-hosts Calum Chace and David Wood highlight some key implications and give our own opinions. Expect some friendly disagreements along the way.Follow-up reading:https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general-ai-is-publicly-known/Topics addressed in this episode include:*) Definitions of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)*) Many analysts knowledgeable about AI have recently brought forward their estimates of when AGI will become a reality*) The case that AGI poses an existential risk to humanity*) The continued survival of the second smartest species on the planet depends entirely on the actions of the actual smartest species*) One species can cause another to become extinct, without that outcome being intended or planned*) Four different ways in which advanced AI could have terrible consequences for humanity: bugs in the implementation; the implementation being hacked (or jail broken); bugs in the design; and the design being hacked by emergent new motivations*) Near future AIs that still fall short of being AGI could have effects which, whilst not themselves existential, would plunge society into such a state of dysfunction and distraction that we are unable to prevent subsequent AGI-induced disaster*) Calum's "4 C's" categorisation of possible outcomes regarding AGI existential risks: Cease, Control, Catastrophe, and Consent*) 'Consent' means a superintelligence decides that we humans are fun, enjoyable, interesting, worthwhile, or simply unobjectionable, and consents to let us carry on as we are, or to help us, or to allow us to merge with it*) The 'Control' option arguably splits into "control while AI capabilities continue to proceed at full speed" and "control with the help of a temporary pause in the development of AI capabilities"*) Growing public support for stopping AI development - driven by a sense of outrage that the future of humanity is seemingly being decided by a small number of AI lab executives*) A comparison with how the 1983 film "The Day After" triggered a dramatic change in public opinion regarding the nuclear weapons arms race*) How much practical value could there be in a six-month pause? Or will the six-months be extended into an indefinite ban?*) Areas where there could be at least some progress: methods to validate the output of giant AI models, and choices of initial configurations that would make the 'Consent' scenario more likely*) Designs that might avoid the emergence of agency (convergent instrumental goals) within AI models as they acquire more intelligence*) Why 'Consent' might be the most likely outcome*) The longer a ban remains in place, the larger the risks of bad actors building AGIs*) Contemplating how to secure the best upsides - an "AI summer" - from advanced AIsMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

In this episode of AI For Pharma Growth, Dr. Andree Bates is joined by Calum Chace to discuss a wide range of topics including philosophy, autonomous cars, drug development costs, and the current state of the healthcare industry. They explore the potential unintended consequences of technological advancements such as the arrival of technological unemployment and AI safety concerns. Calum explains the potential impact of emerging technologies such as Neurolink on the future of human evolution. Dr. Bates and Calum share perspectives and valuable insights into the intersection of technology and healthcare.   In this episode you will learn:  How did you become interested in the field of philosophy The unintended consequences of autonomous cars How much it costs to develop drugs What is the current state of the healthcare industry Ai and Ai safety concerns Neurolink and the future of technology   Click to connect with Dr. Andree Bates for more information in this episode: https://eularis.com/ AI For Pharma Growth is the podcast from pioneering Pharma Artificial Intelligence entrepreneur Dr. Andree Bates created to help organisations understand how the use of AI based technologies can easily save them time and grow their brands and business. This show blends deep experience in the sector with demystifying AI for all pharma people, from start-up biotech right through to Big Pharma. In this podcast, Dr Andree will teach you the tried and true secrets to building a pharma company using AI that anyone can use, at any budget. As the author of many peer-reviewed journals and having addressed over 500 industry conferences across the globe, Dr Andree Bates uses her obsession with all things AI and future-tech to help you to navigate through the, sometimes confusing but, magical world of AI-powered tools to grow pharma businesses. This podcast features many experts who have developed powerful AI-powered tools that are the secret behind some time-saving and supercharged revenue-generating business results. Those who share their stories and expertise show how AI can be applied to sales, marketing, production, social media, psychology, customer insights and so much more. Resources: Dr. Andree Bates LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter

In the last few weeks, the pace of change in AI has been faster than ever before. The changes aren't just announcements of future capabilities - announcements that could have been viewed, perhaps, as hype. The changes are new versions of AI systems that are available for users around the world to experiment with, directly, here and now. These systems are being released by multiple different companies, and also by open-source collaborations. And users of these systems are frequently expressing surprise: the systems are by no means perfect, but they regularly out-perform previous expectations, sometimes in astonishing ways.In this episode, Calum Chace and David Wood, the co-hosts of this podcast series, discuss the wider implications of these new AI systems. David asks Calum if he has changed any of his ideas about what he has called "the two singularities", namely the Economic Singularity and the Technological Singularity, as covered in a number of books he has written.Calum has been a full-time writer and speaker on the subject of AI since 2012. Earlier in his life, he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, and trained as a journalist at the BBC. He wrote a column in the Financial Times and nowadays is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine. In between, he held a number of roles in business, including leading a media practice at KPMG. In the last few days, he has been taking a close look at GPT-4.Selected follow-up reading:https://calumchace.com/the-economic-singularity/https://calumchace.com/surviving-ai-synopsis/Topics in this conversation include:*) Is the media excitement about GPT-4 and its predecessor ChatGPT overblown, or are these systems signs of truly important disruptions?*) How do these new AI systems compare with earlier AIs?*) The two "big bangs" in AI history*) How transformers work*) The difference between self-supervised learning and supervised learning*) The significance of OpenAI enabling general public access to ChatGPT*) Market competition between Microsoft Bing and Google Search*) Unwholesome replies by Microsoft Sydney and Google Bard - and the intended role of RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback)*) How basic reasoning seems to emerge (unexpectedly) from pattern recognition at sufficient scale*) Examples of how the jobs of knowledge workers are being changed by GPT-4*) What will happen to departments where each human knowledge workers has a tenfold productivity boost?*) From the job churns of the past to the Great Churn of the near future*) The forthcoming wave of automation is not only more general than past waves, but will also proceed at a much faster pace*) Improvements in the writing AI produces, such as book chapters*) Revisions of timelines for the Economic and Technological Singularity?*) It now seems that human intelligence is less hard to replicate than was previously thought*) The Technological Singularity might arrive before an Economic Singularity*) The liberating vision of people no longer needing to be wage slaves, and the threat of almost everyone living in poverty*) The insufficiency of UBI (Universal Basic Income) unless an economy of abundance is achieved (bringing the costs of goods and services down toward zero)*) Is the creation of AI now out of control, with a rush to release new versions?*) The infeasibility of the idea of AGI relinquishment*) OpenAI's recent actions assessed*) Expectations for new AI releases in the remainder of 2023: accelerating paceMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

Welcome to episode 5 of the London Futurist podcast, with your co-hosts David Wood and Calum Chace.We're attempting something rather ambitious in episodes 5 and 6. We try to explain how today's cutting edge artificial intelligence systems work, using language familiar to lay people, rather than people with maths or computer science degrees.Understanding how Transformers and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) work means getting to grips with concepts like matrix transformations, vectors, and landscapes with 500 dimensions.This is challenging stuff, but do persevere. These AI systems are already having a profound impact, and that impact will only grow. Even at the level of pure self-interest, it is often said that in the short term, AIs won't take all the jobs, but people who understand AI will take the best jobs.We are extremely fortunate to have as our guide for these episodes a brilliant AI researcher at DeepMind, Aleksa Gordić.Note that Aleksa is speaking in personal capacity and is not representing DeepMind.Aleksa's YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEpiphany00.03 An ambitious couple of episodes01.22 Introducing Aleksa, a double rising star02.15 Keeping it simple02.50 Aleksa's current research, and previous work on Microsoft's HoloLens03.40 Self-taught in AI. Not representing DeepMind04.20 The narrative of the Big Bang in 2012, when Machine Learning started to work in AI.05.15 What machine learning is05.45 AlexNet. Bigger data sets and more powerful computers06.40 Deep learning a subset of machine learning, and a re-branding of artificial neural networks07.27 2017 and the arrival of Transformers07.40 Attention is All You Need08.16 Before this there were LSTMs, Long Short-Term Memories08.40 Why Transformers beat LSTMs09.58 Tokenisation. Splitting text into smaller units and mapping them onto higher dimension networks10.30 3D space is defined by three numbers10.55 Humans cannot envisage multi-dimensional spaces with hundreds of dimensions, but it's OK to imagine them as 3D spaces11.55 Some dimensions of the word "princess"12.30 Black boxes13.05 People are trying to understand how machines handle the dimensions13.50 "Man is to king as woman is to queen." Using mathematical operators on this kind of relationship14.35 Not everything is explainable14.45 Machines discover the relationships themselves15.15 Supervised and self-supervised learning. Rewarding or penalising the machine for predicting labels16.25 Vectors are best viewed as arrows in 3D space, although that is over-simplifying17.20 For instance the relationship between "queen" and "woman" is a vector17.50 Self-supervised systems do their own labelling18.30 The labels and relationships have probability distributions19.20 For instance, a princess is far more likely to wear a slipper than a dog19.35 Large numbers of parameters19.40 BERT, the original Transformer, had a hundred million or so parameters20.04 Now it's in the hundreds of billions, or even trillions20.24 A parameter is analogous to a synapse in the human brain21.19 Synapses can have different weights22.10 The more parameters, the lower the loss22.35 Not just text, but images too, because images can also be represented as tokens23.00 In late 2020 Google released the first vision Transformer23.29 Dall-E and Midjourney are diffusion models, which have replaced GANs24.15 What are GANs, or Generative Adversarial Networks?24.45 Two types of model: Generators and Discriminators. The first tries to fool the second26.20 Simple text can produce photorealistic images27.10 Aleksa's YouTube videos are available at "The AI Epiphany"27.40 CloseMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

In this episode, co-hosts Calum Chace and David Wood explore a number of recent developments in AI - developments that are rapidly changing what counts as "state of the art" in AI.00.05: Short recap of previous episodes00.20: A couple of Geoff Hinton stories02.27: Today's subject: the state of AI today02.53: Search03.35: Games03.58: Translation04.33: Maps05.33: Making the world understandable. Increasingly07.00: Transformers. Attention is all you need08.00: Masked language models08.18: GPT-2 and GPT-308.54: Parameters and synapses10.15: Foundation models produce much of the content on the internet10.40: Data is even more important than size11.45: Brittleness and transfer learning13.15: Do machines understand?14.05: Human understanding and stochastic parrots15.27: Chatbots16.22: Tay embarrasses Microsoft16.53: Blenderbot17.19: Far from AGI. LaMDA and Blaise Lemoine18.26: The value of anthropomorphising19.53: Automation20.25: Robotic Process Automation (RPA)20.55: Drug discovery21.45: New antibiotics. Discovering Halicin23.50: AI drug discovery as practiced by Insilico, Exscientia and others25.33: Eroom's Law26.34: AlphaFold. How 200m proteins fold28.30: Towards a complete model of the cell29.19: Analysis30.04: Air traffic controllers use only 10% of the data available to them30.36: Transfer learning can mitigate the escalating demand for compute power31.18: Next up: the short-term future of AIAudio engineering by Alexander Chace.Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain DeclarationFor more about the podcast hosts, see https://calumchace.com/ and https://dw2blog.com/

In this episode, co-hosts Calum Chace and David Wood continue their review of progress in AI, taking up the story at the 2012 "Big Bang".00.05: Introduction: exponential impact, big bangs, jolts, and jerks00.45: What enabled the Big Bang01.25: Moore's Law02.05: Moore's Law has always evolved since its inception in 196503.08: Intel's tick tock becomes tic tac toe03.49: GPUs - Graphic Processing Units04.29: TPUs - Tensor Processing Units04.46: Moore's Law is not dead or dying05.10: 3D chips05.32: Memristors05.54: Neuromorphic chips06.48: Quantum computing08.18: The astonishing effect of exponential growth09.08: We have seen this effect in computing already. The cost of an iPhone in the 1950s.09.42: Exponential growth can't continue forever, but Moore's Law hasn't reached any theoretical limits10.33: Reasons why Moore's Law might end: too small, too expensive, not worthwhile11.20: Counter-arguments12.01: "Plenty more room at the bottom"12.56: Software and algorithms can help keep Moore's Law going14.15: Using AI to improve chip design14.40: Data is critical15.00: ImageNet, Fei Fei Lee, Amazon Turk16.10: AIs labelling data16.35: The Big Bang17.00: Jürgen Schmidhuber challenges the narrative17.41: The Big Bang enabled AI to make money18.24: 2015 and the Great Robot Freak-Out18.43: Progress in many domains, especially natural language processing19.44: Machine Learning and Deep Learning20.25: Boiling the ocean vs the scientific method's hypothesis-driven approach21.15: Deep Learning: levels21.57: How Deep Learning systems recognise faces22.48: Supervised, Unsupervised, and Reinforcement Learning24.00: Variants, including Deep Reinforcement Learning and Self-Supervised Learning24.30: Yann LeCun's camera metaphor for Deep Learning26.05: Lack of transparency is a concern27.45: Explainable AI. Is it achievable?29.00: Other AI problems29.17: Has another Big Bang taken place? Large Language Models like GPT-330.08: Few-shot learning and transfer learning30.40: Escaping Uncanny Valley31.50: Gato and partially general AIMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain DeclarationFor more about the podcast hosts, see https://calumchace.com/ and https://dw2blog.com/

AI is a subject that we will all benefit from understanding better. In this episode, co-hosts Calum Chace and David Wood review progress in AI from the Greeks to the 2012 "Big Bang".00.05: A prediction01.09: AI is likely to cause two singularities in this pivotal century - a jobless economy, and superintelligence02.22: Counterpoint: it may require AGI to displace most people from the workforce. So only one singularity?03.27: Jobs are nowhere near all that matters in humans04.11: Are the "Three Cs jobs" safe? Those involving Creativity, Compassion, and Commonsense? Probably not.05.15: 2012, the Big Bang in AI05.48: AI now makes money. Google and Facebook ate Rupert Murdoch's lunch06.30: AI might make the difference between military success and military failure. So there's a geopolitical race as well as a commercial race07.18: Defining AI.09.03: Intelligence vs Consciousness10.15: Does the Turing Test test for Intelligence or Consciousness?12.30: Can customer service agents pass the Turing Test?13.07: Attributing consciousness by brain architecture or by behaviour15.13: Creativity. Move 37 in game two of AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol, and Hassabis' three buckets of creativity17.13: Music and art produced by AI as examples19.05: History: Start with the Greeks, Hephaestus (Vulcan to the Romans) built automata, and Aristotle speculated about technological unemployment19.58: AI has featured in science fiction from the beginning, eg Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Samuel Butler's Erewhon, E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"20.55: Post-WW2 developments. Conference in Paris in 1951 on "Computing machines and human thought". Norbert Weiner and cybernetics22.48: The Dartmouth Conference23.55: Perceptrons - very simple models of the human brain25.13: Perceptrons debunked by Minsky and Papert, so Symbolic AI takes over25.49: This debunking was a mistake. More data and better hardware overcomes the hurdles27.20: Two AI winters, when research funding dries up 28.07: David was taught maths at Cambridge by James Lighthill, author of the report which helped cause the first AI winter28.58: The Japanese 5th generation computing project under-delivered in the 1980s. But it prompted an AI revival, and its ambitions have been realised by more recent advances30.45: No more AI winters?Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain DeclarationFor more about the podcast hosts, see https://calumchace.com/ and https://dw2blog.com/

Co-hosts David Wood and Calum Chace share their vision and plans for the London Futurists podcast.00.20: Why we are launching this podcast. Anticipating and managing exponential impact02.45: It's not the Fourth Industrial Revolution – it's the Information Revolution04.58: AI's impact. Smartphones as an example of technology's power09.04: The obviousness of change in hindsight. Why technology implementation is often slow11.30: Technology implementation is often delayed by poor planning15:20: We were promised jetpacks. Instead, we got omniscience17.14: Technological development is not deterministic, and it contains dangers19.08: Technologies are always double-edged swords. They might be somewhat deterministic22.03: Better hindsight enables better foresight23.06: Introducing ourselves23.13: David bio24.53: Calum bio26.44: Fiction and non-fiction. We need more positive stories27.37: Topics for future episodes28.03: There are connections between all these topics28.42: Excited by technology, but realistic29.24: Securing a great futureMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain DeclarationFor more about the podcast hosts, see https://calumchace.com/ and https://dw2blog.com/

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Calum Chace is a keynote speaker and the author of Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence, and The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism. In part 2, we talk about the metaverse, how AI could be leveraged in the metaverse, and the agricultural and longevity singularities. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Calum Chace is a keynote speaker and the author of Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence, and The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism. We talked in this first part about his concept of the Economic Singularity, a transformation of the socioeconomic space he says will arrive much sooner than Ray Kurzweil's famed singularity. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

EPISODE SUMMARY Join scientist and mindset & high-performance coach Claudia Garbutt and the “AI guy” Calum Chase as they talk about the power & potential of artificial intelligence.   In this episode we talk about: - The rise & potential of artificial intelligence - Moral & ethical implications of advanced technology - The 2 singularities and their impact on humanity   EPISODE NOTES Calum is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies, and our economies.   In the last five years, Calum has given over 120 talks in 18 countries on five continents. Videos of his talks and lots of other materials are available at www.pandoras-brain.com.   He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members.   Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress.   You can learn more here:   Website: www.pandoras-brain.com   Book: The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Singularity-Artificial-intelligence-capitalism/dp/099321164X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537348960&sr=8-1&keywords=calum+chace   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calum-chace-bb68168/   ------------------ Music credit: Vittoro by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) ----------------- If you enjoyed this episode, learned something new, had an epiphany moment - or were reminded about a simple truth that you had forgotten, please let me know by rating & reviewing this show on https://ratethispodcast.com/wiredforsuccess.   Oh, and make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on any of the amazing future episodes! If you don't listen on iTunes, you can find all the episodes here.   If you'd like to connect more, you can find me here: Website: www.wiredforsuccess.solutions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wired_for_success/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claudia.garbutt.1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-garbutt/   HELPFUL RESOURCES Wanna find out how I can help you leverage the power of your mind and tap into the wisdom of your body to feel fully aligned, trust your intuition, and achieve your goals with ease and joy rather than with constant hustle and pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion – book a free 20min Strategy Session with me: https://bit.ly/2YemfIe Are you too busy to enjoy your life and would like to free up more time to do all the things you love? Check out my “5 Days to Getting Your Life Back” productivity course that teaches ambitious, mission-driven entrepreneurs how to win back 1-2h of precious time each day Are you a high-ticket coach or other service-based entrepreneur who wants to launch their own Top10 podcast to increase their authority, credibility & visibility AND to bring in new high-quality leads on autopilot but don't know how to get started? No worries, I've got you covered! :) Download my "Instant Podcast Monetization Guide For High-Ticket Coaches and Service-Based Entrepreneurs".

EPISODE SUMMARY Join scientist and mindset & high-performance coach Claudia Garbutt and the “AI guy” Calum Chase as they talk about the power & potential of artificial intelligence. In this episode we talk about: - The rise & potential of artificial intelligence - Moral & ethical implications of advanced technology - The 2 singularities and their impact on humanity EPISODE NOTES Calum is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies, and our economies. In the last five years, Calum has given over 120 talks in 18 countries on five continents. Videos of his talks and lots of other materials are available at www.pandoras-brain.com. He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members. Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress. You can learn more here: Website: www.pandoras-brain.com Book: The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Singularity-Artificial-intelligence-capitalism/dp/099321164X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537348960&sr=8-1&keywords=calum+chace LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calum-chace-bb68168/ ------------------ Music credit: Vittoro by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) ----------------- If you enjoyed this episode, learned something new, had an epiphany moment - or were reminded about a simple truth that you had forgotten, please let me know by rating & reviewing this show on https://ratethispodcast.com/wiredforsuccess. Oh, and make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on any of the amazing future episodes! If you don't listen on iTunes, you can find all the episodes here. If you'd like to connect more, you can find me here: Website: www.wiredforsuccess.solutions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wired_for_success/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claudia.garbutt.1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-garbutt/ HELPFUL RESOURCES Wanna find out how I can help you leverage the power of your mind and tap into the wisdom of your body to feel fully aligned, trust your intuition, and achieve your goals with ease and joy rather than with constant hustle and pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion – book a free 20min Strategy Session with me: https://bit.ly/2YemfIe Are you too busy to enjoy your life and would like to free up more time to do all the things you love? Check out my “5 Days to Getting Your Life Back” productivity course that teaches ambitious, mission-driven entrepreneurs how to win back 1-2h of precious time each day. Are you a high-ticket coach or other service-based entrepreneur who wants to launch their own Top10 podcast to increase their authority, credibility & visibility AND to bring in new high-quality leads on autopilot but don't know how to get started? No worries, I've got you covered! :) Download my "Instant Podcast Monetization Guide For High-Ticket Coaches and Service-Based Entrepreneurs".

Futurist Gerd Leonhard was invited by FORUM EPFL 2021 https://www.forum-epfl.ch/en/, to stage this virtual debate between him (NOT a transhumanist:) and his colleague Calum Chace (science fiction writer, keynote speaker, futurist and transhumanist see https://www.calum-chace.com/about/ ). Each presented for approx. 15 minutes and then debated each other and took questions from the audience. There are a lot of good morsels here! Topics: - what is transhumanism (and why it's a good idea, or not) - are organisms just fancy algorithms (my clear answer: No) - the future of artificial intelligence - longevity and 'the end of mortality' Watch this interesting debate here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CHb3qk_nz9g Watch a similar event they did a year ago, here: https://youtu.be/ZFN6jHeky4Y Calum and Gerd are available for virtual and live event bookings, please go here to inquire https://www.futuristgerd.com/contact/booking-inquiry/

#theaiguy #artificialintelligence #pandorasbrain #singularity #economicsingularity Calum Chace is a keynote speaker, best-selling author focusing on the likely future impact of Artificial Intelligence on people and societies. who has authored books such as ”The Economic Singularity" ; ”Surviving AI" ; and the "Pandora's Brain" which is a novel about the first superintelligence on earth. Before becoming a full-time speaker and author, Calum had a 30-year career in business and journalism, working for the BBC, BP, and KPMG among others He has published five books on Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, Chace co-founded the Economic Singularity Club, "a loose group of technologists, academics, and writers who think the threat of mass technological unemployment is worth taking seriously". In January 2019 the group published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories by some of its members speculating on what the world might look like in 2045. In July 2019, Chace was listed among the top 50 futurist speakers in the world https://www.linkedin.com/in/calum-chace-bb68168/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/calumchace/ https://calumchace.wordpress.com/about/ https://twitter.com/cccalum

In Episode 45 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by AI Author and Keynote Speaker, Calum Chace, where they discuss what impact Artificial Intelligence will have on human society in the future, which includes; His background in journalism and how he got onto the AI journey What Artificial General Intelligence is and how it will happen The big bang of AI in 2012: when it started to make money for organisations Why businesses that don't deploy AI will be out of business in 10 years Why the technological singularity will be the biggest event in human history Why AI will eventually make us all permanently jobless Why this is the best and most exciting time in human history   How it's likely that within this century death will be optional The stark potential downsides of superintelligence Why we will need an economy of abundance: where costs of goods are close to zero Why a superintelligence will look at humans, as we do chimpanzees How humans will eventually live in virtual reality for most of the time Why we should share more data rather than less Aggregated data is where we get the most benefits from AI Why you can't interrogate the decision-making process of a human In the short term, people who work successfully with AI will replace those who don't Companies need to be ABLE Humans need to get REAL

Will machine learning replace humans? In this episode of Are You A Robot?, Calum Chace joins us to discuss his views on how AI and machine learning will change the workforce. Calum Chace is a best-selling author on artificial intelligence and keynote speaker. You can follow him on Twitter (@cccalum) and LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3vCqGuQ This episode is brought to you by EthicsGrade, an ESG Ratings agency with a particular focus on Technology Governance, especially AI Ethics. You can find more information about EthicsGrade here: https://www.ethicsgrade.io/ You can also follow EthicsGrade on Twitter (@EthicsGrade) and LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2JCiQOg Connect with Us: Join our Slack channel for more conversation about the big ethics issues that rise from AI: https://bit.ly/3jVdNov Follow Are You A Robot? on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: @AreYouARobotPod Follow our LinkedIn page: https://bit.ly/3gqzbSw Follow Demetrios on Twitter @Dpbrinkm and LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2TPrA5w Resources: “Are We Spiritual Machines?” https://amzn.to/3vxzdz4 Calum's book – “Pandora's Brain” https://amzn.to/3cJSBAo Calum's book – “Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence”: https://amzn.to/3vw0FgN Calum's book - “The Economic Singularity”: https://amzn.to/3qUjFly Episode with Dylan Beattie: http://bit.ly/3ln6rws Episode with Sidney Madison Prescott: https://bit.ly/2ZppBaK

In this episode of Lux & Tech, Carlo Pignataro discusses the future of humanity with best-selling author and Artificial Intelligence expert Calum Chace.Calum offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities a "Luxury Automated Capitalism" presents and in this interview, based on the principles included in the book "AI and the two singularities" the two discuss:A brief history of AIAI and machine learningThe economic singularity, and a jobless worldThe technical singularity, and a new form of intelligencePost- humanism: Man merges with machines

Online debate hosted by Gerd Leonhard: http://bit.ly/2TSWbAE Download the debate here: https://bit.ly/2yK1idp or watch YouTube here: https://bit.ly/2yBC80G Guest panelist: Calum Chace: https://bit.ly/3cHXRTl My Futures Agency colleague and fellow futurist Calum Chace disagrees with me on many of my core messages on topics such as the singularity, (trans)-humanism, artificial intelligence and what I call ‘man+machine futures’. Nevertheless we have become friends and we respect each other’s views. There will be no soft-balls and no beating around the bush in this debate – just honesty and curiosity:).

Madhumita Murgia discusses what happens when robots can do most of the work humans do with Calum Chace of the Economic Singularity Club, Mike Wooldridge, professor of Computer Science at Oxford University and Kathryn Parsons, founder of Decoded See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We are quickly approaching a point of no return with technology and jobs. Do we have a plan, or are we just going to wing it? And can science fiction help guide us? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is the trade dispute between the US and China hurting both nations' tech industry? Artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G telecoms are key sectors in which the superpowers are vying to be the leader. Special guests Calum Chace, author of "Surviving AI", and Emily Taylor, CEO of Oxford Information Labs, join Chris Fox to examine the effects of the trade dispute between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. (Image: Composite image of Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, Credit: Reuters).

Minter Dialogue Episode #325Calum Chace is a well-regarded author and speaker, focused on Artificial Intelligence. He's the co-founder of The Economic Singularity Club, a futurist think tank. His books include Surviving AI, The Economic Singularity and Pandora's Brain. His latest book, "Stories from 2045," is a collection of short stories exploring through fiction how AI and new tech will impact our world. In this conversation we discuss the challenges, opportunities and perils of AI, the Universal Basic Income option and much more. A stimulating chat about the future.Please send me your questions as an audio file or text to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

“Optimism, like pessimism, is a bias, and to be avoided. But summoning the determination to rise to a challenge and succeed is a virtue.” - Calum Chace Today's guest argues that in the course of this century, the exponential growth in the capability of AI is likely to bring about two "singularities" - points at which conditions are so extreme that the normal rules break down. The first is the economic singularity, when machine skill reaches a level that renders many of us unemployable and requires an overhaul of our current economic and social systems. The second is the technological singularity, when machine intelligence reaches and then surpasses the cognitive abilities of an adult human, relegating us to the second smartest species on the planet. These singularities will present huge challenges, but this he argues that we can meet these challenges and overcome them. If we do, the rewards could be almost unimaginable. Artificial intelligence can turn out to be the best thing ever to happen to humanity, making our future wonderful almost beyond imagination. But only if we address head-on the challenges that it will raise. We welcome expert on artificial intelligence, and its likely future impact on society and bestselling author of many books including the focus of today's show “Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities”, Calum Chace, welcome to the show We discuss: The Terminology Technological Singularity Economic Singularity Exponential Change Artificial General Intelligence The AI race Technological Joblessness Universal Basic Income Impact on Society What is being done The Gods and the Useless Transhumanism Augmented Humanity Centaurs Privacy Concerns More about Calum here; http://www.pandoras-brain.com/ and the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0815368534/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6

A conversation with author and futurist Calum Chace about how AI will impact jobs and the global economy. Send your comments and suggestions to me @societyiire or bob@societywire.net

Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones are joined by Calum Chase (author of The Economic Singularity, Pandora's Brain, and Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities) to discuss how digital has the capacity to unleash human potential by connecting us to each other and providing unprecedented access to knowledge. ALIVE: Digital Humans and Their Organizations is available on paperback and ebook in all good bookstores. Ludic Insights is brought to you by the Ludic Group, leaders in digital transformation. For more information, visit www.ludicgroup.com.

Calum Chace, Best-selling Author of the Books: The Two Singularities, The Economic Singularity, and Surviving AI participate in Risk Roundup to discuss Artificial Intelligence driven Economic Singularity. Artificial Intelligence Driven Economic Singularity Economic progress has always been driven by some sort of automation. In the last 150 years, internal combustion engines, electricity, and semiconductors driven […] The post Artificial Intelligence Driven Economic Singularity appeared first on Risk Group.

Calum Chace is an expert on artificial intelligence (AI). He graduated from Oxford university after studying philosophy and found that the science fiction books he loved were really just philosophy in fancy dress. Calum has now written several books on AI and is in demand globally as an expert speaker and advisor. He will be speaking at the CX Tech event in London on October 12. https://cxtech.events/ https://amzn.to/2QqnsWx https://calumchace.wordpress.com/  

One of the most interesting and controversial topics today is the potential impact of AI on employment, economics and politics. Calum Chace has written a number of bestselling books on these topics including ‘Surviving AI’ and ‘The Economic Singularity’. We met up in London to talk about the broader social consequences of superintelligence, the merits of a Universal Basic Income, and how the concept of work and employment might radically change in the future.

One of the most interesting and controversial topics today is the potential impact of AI on employment, economics and politics. Calum Chace has written a number of bestselling books on these topics including ‘Surviving AI’ and ‘The Economic Singularity’. We met up in London to talk about the broader social consequences of superintelligence, the merits of a Universal Basic Income, and how the concept of work and employment might radically change in the future.

In this episode, I have a great pleasure of being joined by Calum Chace. Calum studied Philosophy at Oxford, where he initially developed his interest in AI. After a 30 year career in business, he started sharing his thoughts on AI with the world. Now, he is a distinguished author and sought-after speaker about artificial intelligence, and its likely future impact on society. His books include a novel Pandora’s Brain, and 3 non-fiction books: Surviving AI, The Economic Singularity, and Artificial Intelligence and The Two Singularities. Calum argues that superintelligence is closer than we think, and that humanity is on track to become second smartest species on the planet. Even a more pressing concern in his mind, is AI’s impact on employment and what can be done to ensure a smoother transition to a potentially jobless society. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bigfanofhumanrace/message

Riveting audio conversation with Futurists Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard: AI, the Singularity, the Future of Humans and Machines. Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard don’t agree on many issues – Gerd is a humanist and Calum is a science fiction writer and AI advocate. Please find more Details and Slides in Gerd's Blog: https://bit.ly/2IfO5w6 If you enjoy Gerd's podcasts and talks, please take a look at his new book “Technology vs Humanity” www.techvshuman.com or buy it via Amazon gerd.fm/globalTVHamazon

Donald Trump says tariffs on Chinese goods are necessary to 'protect American workers'. So who in the US might benefit from this action? Tennessee voted overwhelmingly for Mr Trump in 2016 and does more trade with China than any other US state. We hear from farmers facing Chinese tariffs on soy bean exports and a manufacturer worried about rising US steel prices. We also hear from Shelbyville, once called 'pencil city', where one of the last US pencil factories says its business has been damaged by cheap Chinese imports for decades. But is President Trump pointing the finger in the wrong direction when it comes to job losses? Calum Chace, author of The Economic Singularity and Our Jobless Future: An Essay on Artificial Intelligence and the Economic Singularity, says the decline in manufacturing has much more to do with automation than it does with China.(Picture: US President Donald Trump at the American Farm Bureau Federation's Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Watson/Getty Images)

Business and science fiction writer Calum Chace talks to John Thornhill about the exponential growth of AI and why we need to start planning now for a world without work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joining Host Ian Lawton on this episode is Author, Futurist and Public Speaker Calum Chace to discuss the inevitability of the arrival of Artificial Intelligence and what it could potentially mean to humanity if we don't get it right first time. For more information on Calum, visit his website www.pandoras-brain.com For all the things and stuff www.workshedpod.com Visit the above website for direct links to Calum's books.   This episode is sponsored by AUDIBLE www.audibletrial.com/workshed      

How should we respond to the economic, social and moral consequences of automation driven by advancements in artificial intelligence? We are, argues Calum Chace (author of ‘Pandora’s Brain’, ‘Surviving AI’ and ‘The Economic Singularity’), on the brink of two singularities and accordingly need to plot a path to a future society that is ‘meaningful, sensible and communicable’. The first singularity we face is technological: Moore’s law stipulates that computing power doubles every two years at the same cost. If this holds then an artificial general intelligence (GI) will eventually arrive that surpasses the cognitive abilities of an ordinary human and then, shortly afterwards, that of all humans combined. Relatedly we face an economic singularity: such intelligent machines will take all the jobs that humans do - and we won’t be able to invent ones they can’t. Speaking to Seedcamp partner Carlos Espinal, Calum reflects on how we should react to the advance of AI to ensure the outcome we get is one which is positive for humankind. He argues that we will need need to decouple income from jobs, and will probably need a new economic system - but that the Universal Basic Income advocated by many futurists, tech CEOs and thinkers is insufficient. “We should be aiming for a world in which machines are so efficient and powerful we don't have to pay for anything,” he says. Calum is a regular speaker and writer on artificial intelligence and related technologies. Prior to his writing career, Calum had a 30-year career in business, in which he was a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He maintains his interest in business by running a small property business and serving as chairman and coach for growing companies. In 2000 he co-wrote The Internet Startup Bible, a business best-seller. He studied philosophy at the University of Oxford. Show notes: Carlos Medium: sdca.mp/2entVR3 Seedcamp: www.seedcamp.com Calum’s Blog: http://calumchace.wordpress.com Related bio links: Carlos: linkedin.com/in/carloseduardoespinal / twitter.com/cee Calum: linkedin.com/in/calum-chace-bb68168 / twitter.com/cccalum

Clips from 2016 interviews with Nick Reed, Calum Chace, Cosima Gretton, Lydia Nicholas, Lucy McCormick, Matthew Channon, Sam Hill, and Sam Kinsley.

We talk to Calum Chace. Calum is an author and speaker about artificial intelligence, and its likely future impact on society. His work is informed by the experience of a 30-year career in business. You can see some of his talks here. If you are new to the idea that machine consciousness and superintelligence may be with us soon (in decades rather than centuries), his novel Pandora's Brain and his non-fiction books Surviving AI and The Economic Singularity are great places to start. http://www.pandoras-brain.com/

We talk to Calum Chace. Calum is an author and speaker about artificial intelligence, and its likely future impact on society.  His work is informed by the experience of a 30-year career in business.  You can see some of his talks here. If you are new to the idea that machine consciousness and superintelligence may be with us soon (in decades rather than centuries), his novel Pandora's Brain and his non-fiction books Surviving AI and The Economic Singularity are great places to start. We talk to John Hubbs, CEO and Founder of Greymatter ;Alliance. John is a social entrepreneur. His job is empowering your world. John's Integrated Mission is to solve social, economic and environmental challenges through his portfolio of technical and social initiatives. His background as a highly focused and accomplished executive offers national and global B2B and B2C strategy and implementation expertise.

SPECIAL GUEST: Calum Chace (Surviving AI, The Economic Singularity). For his 4th appearance on the show, we talk with author Calum Chace about the future of AI, big data, machine learning, security, privacy, bad credit, and the joys of politics in the US and UK. With a side of media and Internet surfing. Recorded 10/16/2016. Show notes available at https://robotoverlordz.fm/show/435-ep00315-notes.

In this Express episode Jon and Ted answer a listener question about the future of citizenship, and wonder how it will be challenged and whether it’s even necessary at all. We respond to another question asking for a beginner’s reading list. We follow up on our discussion with Calum Chace and talk through Jon’s skepticism of […]

SPECIAL GUEST: Calum Chace. Returning guest Calum Chace joins us to talk about his new book, The Economic Singularity, which really digs into the history, philosophy, and possible scenarios of TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT. Tech Unemployment is the idea that as robots and AI take on more and more jobs, that eventually humans will have no option for legitimate work, at least under our current economic system. The Economic Singularity lays all of this out in incredible detail. Highly recommended read. Recorded 7/24/2016. Find out more at https://robotoverlordz.fm/show/404-ep00292-notes.

We discuss differring types of AI and future scenarios, the end of Moore's Law, the possibilities of 'friendly' AI, China's Sesame project and Calum's Books.

“AI is coming and it could be the best or the worst thing” was Calum Chace‘s message at the end of my first interview with him. Since then Chace has written a non-fiction book on Surviving AI and, given that it is a matter of the survival of our species, I thought it is worthy of a […]

Is artificial intelligence force for good? For many, the term Artificial Intelligence, conjures up images of sci-fi movies and humanoid robots, more often than not of malign intent. Yet the reality is that the spectrum of A.I. encompass everything from Siri, Facebook M and smart keyboards to drones and self-driving cars -- in other words, we are already using A.I. in our day-to-day lives, often without realising it. In this roundtable co-hosted by SwiftKey and Index Ventures and held at Second Home in London, AI experts from academia, the private sector and the literary world, discuss how we can maximise the opportunities and manage the risks which lie ahead in the space. Our guests include: -- Calum Chace, author of “Surviving AI” -- Jun Wang, Reader, Computer Science, UCL & co-founder MediaGamma -- Martin Mignot, Principal, Index Ventures -- Ben Medlock, co-founder SwiftKey -- Alexandre Dalyac, co-founder, Tractable -- Dr Yasemin J. Erden, Lecturer/Programme Director Philosophy, St Mary's University -- Martina King, CEO, Featurespace Read more about the roundtable discussion in a story by Natasha Lomas: "Not Just Another Discussion About Whether AI Is Going To Destroy Us" > http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/06/ais-real-risks-and-benefits

In today’s episode, Jon speaks with Calum Chace, author of the new nonfiction book Surviving AI. The potential risk posed by superintelligent AI has recently gained unprecedented coverage in the mainstream press, thanks to the release of Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence and public statements by the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking. In our […]

Pandora’s Brain is one of the most philosophical science fiction novels I have read recently. And since Calum Chace has been a valuable contributor to Singularity Weblog, as well as a great blogger with an interesting and diverse experience in his own right, I thought that he would make a great guest for my Singularity […]