The Trajectory

This week Dr. Richard Sutton. Known for his breakthroughs in reinforcement learning, Richard serves as a Professor at The University of Alberta and Research Scientist at Keen Technologies (an artificial general intelligence lab he started with John Carmack).This is the second installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead.This episode referred to the following other essays and resources:--...

This is an interview with Nick Bostrom, the Founding Director of Future of Humanity Institute Oxford.This is the first installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead.This episode referred to the following other essays and resources:-- The Intelligence Trajectory Political Matrix: danfaggella.com/itpm -- Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16200-- The S...

This is an interview with Dan Hendrycks, Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Center for AI Safety (safe.ai).This is the fifth and final installment of our 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead. This episode was recorded in October of 2023.Read more of Dan's ideas and https://www.safe.ai/work/researchThis episode referred to the following other essays and resources:-- The Intellig...

This is an interview with Dileep George, AI Researcher at Google DeepMind, previously CTO and Co-founder of Vicarious AI.This is the fourth episode in a 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead.Watch Dileep's episode on The Trajectory YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/nmsuHz43X24 See more of Dileep's ideas - and his humorous AGI comics - at: https://dileeplearning.github.io/Some of ...