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Howard Bloom, Dr. Ben Goertzel, and Dr. Mihaela Ulieru examine how principles of emergent intelligence in natural systems can inform artificial general intelligence (AGI) development.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_… • A Cultural Legend Tackles the Benefic… 00:00 Intro 01:20 Howard Bloom’s Online Journey and the Global Brain 04:33 Ben Goertzel’s Perspective on the Global Brain 09:07 The Evolution of Intelligence and AI 12:42 Challenges and Philosophies in AI Development 17:56 Human Values and AI: A Complex Relationship 24:18 The Role of Compassion in AI and Human Evolution 29:31 Tribalism and Ethical Reasoning in AI 30:16 Emergence of AI Values 31:26 Self-Organization and Compassion in AI 32:21 Ethical Theories and AI Attractors 34:33 Future Economy and AI Impact 34:48 AI and Human Economy Transformation 35:44 Cosmic Ambitions and AI 37:15 Competition Among AIs 38:00 Vision of Beneficial AGI 38:20 Path to Human-Level AGI 42:32 Emergence and Cooperation in AI 46:17 Singularity and Human Nature 50:09 Punctuated Equilibrium in AI Development 52:27 Engineering the Future of Intelligence 54:22 Closing Thoughts on AI and the Future #AGI #AI #BGI — SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission of creating a decentralized, democratic, inclusive and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). According to Dr. Goertzel, AGI should be independent of any central entity, open to anyone and not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or even a single country. The SingularityNET team includes seasoned engineers, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. The core platform and AI teams are further complemented by specialized teams devoted to application areas such as finance, robotics, biomedical AI, media, arts and entertainment. Website: https://singularitynet.io X: https://twitter.com/SingularityNET Linkedin: / singularitynet Instagram: / singularitynet.io Discord: / discord Telegram: https://t.me/singularitynet WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaM8… Warpcast: https://warpcast.com/singularitynet Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/singularityn… Github: https://github.com/singnet.
• A Cultural Legend Tackles the Benefic…

00:00 Intro.
01:20 Howard Bloom’s Online Journey and the Global Brain.
04:33 Ben Goertzel’s Perspective on the Global Brain.
09:07 The Evolution of Intelligence and AI
12:42 Challenges and Philosophies in AI Development.
17:56 Human Values and AI: A Complex Relationship.
24:18 The Role of Compassion in AI and Human Evolution.
29:31 Tribalism and Ethical Reasoning in AI
30:16 Emergence of AI Values.
31:26 Self-Organization and Compassion in AI
32:21 Ethical Theories and AI Attractors.
34:33 Future Economy and AI Impact.
34:48 AI and Human Economy Transformation.
35:44 Cosmic Ambitions and AI
37:15 Competition Among AIs.
38:00 Vision of Beneficial AGI
38:20 Path to Human-Level AGI
42:32 Emergence and Cooperation in AI
46:17 Singularity and Human Nature.
50:09 Punctuated Equilibrium in AI Development.
52:27 Engineering the Future of Intelligence.
54:22 Closing Thoughts on AI and the Future.

#AGI #AI #BGI

SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission of creating a decentralized, democratic, inclusive and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). According to Dr. Goertzel, AGI should be independent of any central entity, open to anyone and not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or even a single country. The SingularityNET team includes seasoned engineers, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. The core platform and AI teams are further complemented by specialized teams devoted to application areas such as finance, robotics, biomedical AI, media, arts and entertainment.

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It added that the average annual cost of poor mental health per employee in finance and insurance was £5,379, more than double that in any of the 14 other sectors covered.

The report adds to a growing volume of research on the impact of a global mental health crisis on companies and the workplace.

According to the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization, about 12bn working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety, costing the global economy $1tn annually.

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What do albatrosses searching for food, stock market fluctuations, and the dispersal patterns of seeds in the wind have in common?

They all exhibit a type of movement pattern called Lévy walk, which is characterized by a flurry of short, localized movements interspersed with occasional, long leaps. For living organisms, this is an for balancing the exploitation of nearby resources with the exploration of new opportunities when the distribution of resources is sparse and unknown.

Originally described in the context of particles drifting through liquid, Lévy walk has been found to accurately describe a very wide range of phenomena, from cold atom dynamics to swarming bacteria. And now, a study published in Complexity has for the first time found Lévy walk in the movements of competing groups of organisms: soccer teams.

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ServiceNow, which provides businesses with outsourced IT and customer service support as well as other digital services, said it was buying the business process automation company Moveworks for $2.85 billion in cash and stock. The Santa Clara, California-based ServiceNow framed the acquisition around the burgeoning market for AI agents that can perform digital tasks for people, often involving the use of other software.

The company is among a clutch of competing software giants, including Salesforce, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google, that are building platforms that enable companies to automate work with AI agents. ServiceNow said the purchase would allow it to combine its own agentic AI and automation capabilities with Moveworks’ AI assistant, as well as Movework’s prowess in providing AI-based search tools that allow organizations to find information within their own large data pools.

Gina Mastantuono, ServiceNow’s president and chief financial officer, told Fortune that while ServiceNow’s AI agents primarily automate specific back-end tasks, Moveworks had built an elegant front-end AI assistant that can perform a wide range of different tasks.

The same interface works for both people requesting a task to be fulfilled and for the people who are normally responsible for fulfilling those requests. More than 90% of the customers that use Moveworks’ AI assistant have rolled it out to their entire workforce—a reach into the employee base that Mastantuono said was attractive to ServiceNow.

The combined companies would be able to build what ServiceNow said would be a powerful universal AI assistant, along with more perceptive AI-based enterprise search to find answers to requests, automate and complete everyday tasks, and increase productivity.

(https://open.substack.com/pub/remunerationlabs/p/servicenow-…hare=true)

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TAMPA, Fla. — Star Catcher Industries, a startup designing spacecraft to beam solar energy to other satellites in low Earth orbit, has secured funding from Florida’s economic development agency to demonstrate the technology at a former Space Shuttle landing site.

Space Florida is providing a $2 million financial package for the one-year-old venture, Star Catcher CEO Andrew Rush told SpaceNews March 7, with most of the funds supporting tests this summer from Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at the Cape — one of the longest runways in the world.

Rush said Star Catcher plans to use the facility to demonstrate its ability to beam hundreds of watts of energy to multiple simulated satellites simultaneously from more than a kilometer away, marking a critical proof point for the Jacksonville, Florida-based startup’s technology.

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Happy International Women’s Day to all the women around the world!

I had a great time interviewing Theodora Lau for the (A)bsolutely (I)ncredible podcast on Thursday, ahead of International Women’s Day.

S new book on Amazon: [ https://amzn.to/4iwVogr](https://amzn.to/4iwVogr) ‘ + s Day is this Saturday, and LinkedIn News is spotlighting conversations around today LinkedIn News asked me to share a short-form video about a lesson a woman mentor or colleague taught me and post it with the hashtag #IWD25

S Theodora with her perspective on representation in Artificial Intelligence and in financial services… + m still editing the full interview I will post some more shorts like this one from the interview today for International Women Join the conversation by sharing a short-form video about a lesson a woman mentor or colleague taught you that still shapes your career today using the hashtag #IWD25 to show your support for billions of women around the world.

D like to promote your (A)bsolutely (I)ncredible executive, brand, or product in an interview on the Neural News Network reach out to me directly.

There is no lack of hype around artificial intelligence. We have only begun to scratch the surface of what this powerful technology can do. While tech and financial services become more intertwined, cutting through the noise has become more difficult but also more crucial.

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A newly devised “polymorphic” attack allows malicious Chrome extensions to morph into other browser extensions, including password managers, crypto wallets, and banking apps, to steal sensitive information.

The attack was devised by SquareX Labs, which warns of its practicality and feasibility on the latest version of Chrome. The researchers have responsibly disclosed the attack to Google.

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OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue. But that’s not the only application the AI firm is hoping will make big bucks. If you saw our story last month detailing OpenAI’s financial projections, you might have noticed an intriguing reference…

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Threat actors deploying the Black Basta and CACTUS ransomware families have been found to rely on the same BackConnect (BC) module for maintaining persistent control over infected hosts, a sign that affiliates previously associated with Black Basta may have transitioned to CACTUS.

“Once infiltrated, it grants attackers a wide range of remote control capabilities, allowing them to execute commands on the infected machine,” Trend Micro said in a Monday analysis. “This enables them to steal sensitive data, such as login credentials, financial information, and personal files.”

It’s worth noting that details of the BC module, which the cybersecurity company is tracking as QBACKCONNECT owing to overlaps with the QakBot loader, was first documented in late January 2025 by both Walmart’s Cyber Intelligence team and Sophos, the latter of which has designated the cluster the name STAC5777.

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