Robin Allaby explains the paleoecology of the submerged area known as Doggerland.
Category: futurism
AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
Geoffrey Hinton is an AI pioneer, a Nobel Prize winner, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Hinton joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss AI’s rapid progress, why he believes today’s systems already understand us, and why he thinks superintelligence may arrive sooner than many expect. Tune in to hear Hinton explain why the technology has advanced faster than he anticipated, and lay out the risks he believes society is not doing enough to address. We also cover AI-driven job loss, the limits of corporate self-regulation, Anthropic and OpenAI’s safety challenges, emotional attachment to chatbots, information collapse, and whether future AI systems can be designed to care about humans. Hit play for a fascinating conversation with one of AI’s founding figures about where the technology is heading and what it could mean for all of us.
Join the Big Technology AI Summit in San Francisco on June 18: https://summit.bigtechnology.com.
Chapters:
0:00: Intro.
1:34: Hinton’s role in deep learning.
3:33: AI is moving faster than expected.
4:18: When superintelligence might arrive.
6:00: Are we already near AGI?
9:10: Do AI systems really understand us?
10:22: Why Hinton thinks AI may be conscious.
13:09: Why Hinton became worried about AI
21:58: What surprised Hinton most.
26:50: Hinton revisits his radiologist prediction.
35:06: AI and self-preservation.
41:59: Why regulation is the steering wheel.
Enzymes that assemble into droplets can speed up cellular reactions
Within the past decade, biologists have discovered that one strategy cells use to keep their contents organized is a phenomenon known as phase separation.
Similar to the way oil forms droplets that float in a vinegar solution, proteins inside cells can phase separate to form highly concentrated droplets that keep them organized within the cell. In a new study, MIT researchers have now shown that this droplet formation is critical for controlling the function of a class of enzymes called kinases.
