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Blaise Agüera y Arcas, author and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, returns to the podcast to talk about his new work, What is Life?. This limited-edition, pocket-sized book is the first part of a larger print project with MIT Press and Antikythera titled What Is Intelligence?. What is Life? draws fascinating parallels between the life-building chemical reactions taking place in natural chimneys deep in our oceans and the work of Alan Turing and John von Neumann in the mid-twentieth century. Blaise joins Robb and Josh to explore how self-reproduction—and thus life—is inherently computational. This conversation delves into the nested nature of life on Earth and how technology is an extension of our evolution.You can buy Blaise’s books from Hat & Beard Press:Who Are We Now? https://hatandbeard.com/products/who-are-we-now-by-blaise-aguera-y-arcas Ubi Sunt https://hatandbeard.com/products/ubi-sunt-by-blaise-aguera-y-arcas In this episode, we mention:Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s work, “What is Life” — read for free online: https://whatisintelligence.antikythera.orgLynn Margulis’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Lynn-Margulis/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ALynn%2BMargulisConventional evolutionary theory (Neo-Darwinism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-DarwinismStephen Jay Gould’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Stephen-Jay-Gould/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AStephen%2BJay%2BGould W. Brian Arthur’s book, “The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves”: https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Technology-What-How-Evolves/dp/1416544062The Invisible Machines episode, "Radically Honest AI with Dr. Anna Lembke": S5E01 Radically Honest AI with Dr. Anna LembkeAnna Lemble’s book, “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence”: https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672XRichard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto's book, "Reinforcement Learning: second edition: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)" (about temporal difference learning): https://www.amazon.com/Reinforcement-Learning-Introduction-Adaptive-Computation/dp/0262039249/ref=dp_ob_title_bkWolfram Schultz’s work, “Responses of monkey dopamine neurons to reward and conditioned stimuli during successive steps of learning a delayed response task”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8441015/The direction of time and Boltzmann’s time hypothesis: http://staff.mechmining.uq.edu.au/klimenko/pub/pdf/Phys_Scr_2019.pdfRay Kurzweil's book, "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology": https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0670033847 The story of the Luddites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LudditeThe Invisible Machines episode, “The Intelligence All Around Us” with James Bridle: S4E4 The Intelligence All Around UsJames Bridle’s' book, “Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence”: https://www.amazon.com/Ways-Being-Machines-Planetary-Intelligence/dp/0374601119 Disney Pixar’s movie, “WALL·E”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/Joseph Henrich's book, "The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter": https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Our-Success-Evolution-Domesticating/dp/0691166854 Ethan Mollick's book, "Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI": https://www.amazon.com/Co-Intelligence-Living-Working-Ethan-Mollick/dp/059371671X Learn about creating and orchestrating AI agents for your team:https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast_episode_with_blaise_aguera_y_arcas&utm_content=1#AI#AIPodcast#TechPodcast#InvisibleMachines#ArtificialIntelligence#AIAgents#AgenticAI#TechInnovation#WhatIsLife#AIandLife#AIResearch#Intelligence#EvolutionAndTechnology#LifeOnEarth#TechAndSociety
Anna Lembke, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, joins Robb and Josh for a discussion about the perils and promise of AI. As a psychiatrist and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University, Dr. Lembke shares critical insights into the power and nature of behavioral addiction, and how technology and digital media are impacting the dopamine systems in our brains. Drawing from her experience with patients, she shares the concept of radical honesty—a cornerstone of addiction recovery. Together, they explore how radically honest AI could pose less of a threat and help establish healthier boundaries around technology use.In this episode, we mention:Dr. Anna Lemble’s book “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence”: https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672X The forthcoming revised and updated 2nd edition of Robb Willson and Josh Tyson’s bestselling book, “Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers”: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Invisible-Machines-Orchestrating-Organizations/dp/1394321554Dr. Anna Lembke’s “The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: A Practical Guide to Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence”: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Dopamine-Nation-Workbook-Indulgence/dp/0593476212?sr=1-1Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 conducted Sept. 18-Oct.10, 2024: "Teens, Social Media, and Technology 2024": https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/12/12/teens-social-media-and-technology-2024/Learn about creating and orchestrating AI agents for your team:https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast_episode_with_anna_lembke&utm_content=1#AI#AIPodcast#TechPodcast#InvisibleMachines#ArtificialIntelligence#AIAgents#AgenticAI#TechInnovation#DopamineNation#RadicalHonesty#DigitalAddiction#MentalHealth#TechImpact#BehavioralScience#Dopamine#AnnaLembke
Active inference is a “first principles” approach to understanding behavior and the brain, framed in terms of a single imperative to minimize free energy. The free energy principle describes systems that pursue paths of least surprise, minimizing the difference between predictions based on their model of the world and their sense and associated perception. Dr. Thomas Parr is a practicing clinician and prominent researcher in the field of theoretical neuroscience and he currently works as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurology at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He is also a co-author of Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior, written in collaboration with Giovanni Pezzulo and Karl J. Friston.In this episode, we mention:Thomas Parr’s book “Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (co-written with Giovanni Pezzulo and Karl J. Friston): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704196/active-inference-by-thomas-parr-giovanni-pezzulo-and-karl-j-friston/Troxler's fading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading The Invisible Machines episode “Digital Natives Are Now AI Immigrants” with Marc Prensky: https://youtu.be/CAKumte_JP8?si=OxPKZbRKIegEjBvh Landauer's principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle Learn about orchestrating AI agents for your team:https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast_episode_with_thomas_parr&utm_content=1#aipodcast#techpodcast#invisiblemachines#ai#artificialintelligence#aiagents#agenticai#techinnovation#neuroscience#activeinference#machinelearning#congitivescience#behavioralscience#futureofai#neuroai#thinkingmachines
Despite being a massive piece of the bigger AI puzzle, computer vision doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. Robb and Josh welcome Dr. Jason Corso, Professor of Robotics at University of Michigan for an In Action episode that explores the complexity and power of machines that can see. Jason is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Voxel51, which is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, and in this episode he demonstrates open-source tools available for working with massive datasets that include images and videos. The trio also discuss the border implication of adding the context that vision can afford to multi-agent systems.Explore Dr. Jason Corso’s Voxel51 platform: https://voxel51.com/ FiftyOne Open Source: Voxel51's open source toolkit for building high-quality datasets and computer vision models.FiftyOne Teams: Voxel51’s commercial offering based on open source FiftyOne.People can try FiftyOne at try.fiftyone.ai. Voxel51 on Github: https://github.com/voxel51/fiftyoneA course on Coursera that Voxel51 created called "Hands-on Data Centric Visual AI" — https://www.coursera.org/learn/hands-on-data-centric-visual-aiLearn about orchestrating AI agents for your team:AI agent landing page with the whitepaper: https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud+&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=computer_vision_in_action_episode&utm_content=1 Learn about the only tools for orchestrating AI agents that are named a leader by all major analyst firmsAI agent landing page (dev): https://aiagents.onereach.ai/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=computer_vision_in_action_episode&utm_content=1 #AIPodcast#TechPodcast#InvisibleMachines#AI #ArtificialIntelligence#AIAgents#AgenticAI#ComputerVision#MultiAgentSystems#DataScience#TechInnovation#AIinAction#GenerativeAI#NoCode#Automation #DigitalTransformation#AITech
What’s it like to build an AI agent? Daniel Lametti, Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University, Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and Senior Academic Advisor to OneReach.ai, returns to Invisible Machines to demonstrate how easy it can be to create and iterate on AI agents.Like other In Action episodes, you’ll watch as we walk through the practical realities of building these systems. This time, see how professor Daniel Lametti creates an objective-based AI agent that helps users craft and send emails. Though he’s hesitant to think of himself as one, conversational technologies have made Daniel a deft software developer. In this In Action episode, Daniel shares his experiences building AI agents with Robb and Josh. The trio discuss and show how coding languages are moving further into the background as machines become more adept at communicating in human language.Follow Daniel Lametti’s work: https://psychology.acadiau.ca/daniel-lametti.htmlLearn about orchestrating AI agents for your team:https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=email_agents_in_action_episode&utm_content=1 #AIPodcast#TechPodcast#InvisibleMachines#AI #ArtificialIntelligence#AIAgents#AgenticAI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#ConversationalAI#InAction#NoCode#Automation #DigitalTransformation#NaturalLangiageProcessing#Email#SoftwareDevelopment#FutureofAI#UXDesign#MachineLearning#AITech
Robb and Josh are joined by Ed Klaris, Managing Partner at Klaris Law, Columbia Law professor, and CEO of KlarisIP, for a conversation about the fate of generative tools like LLMs and AI models that produce audio and video. From Ed’s viewpoint, giant tech companies used stolen content to train the powerful AI models that have quickly changed the world around us. The trio discuss the question of whether or not it’s lawful for us all to use generative AI tools and how IP and copyright law will impact, and be impacted by generative AI. As we wait for landmark decisions that will determine the fate of these tools, this conversation with Ed Klaris offers context and food for thought, and for some maybe even a sense of alarm. In this episode, we mention: The US Copyright Office: https://copyright.gov/ The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne Google Books copyright case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc. AIr Canada AI chatbot case: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2024/02/19/what-air-canada-lost-in-remarkable-lying-ai-chatbot-case/ Follow Ed Klaris's work: https://www.klarislaw.com/ Learn about orchestrating AI agents for your team: https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=copyright_law_episode&utm_content=1 #AIPodcast #TechPodcast #InvisibleMachines #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #AgenticAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightLaw #AIEthics #TechLaw #AIRegulation #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #FutureofAI #AIandIP #LegalTech #AITransparency
Jieun Kiaer is the Professor of Korean Linguistics at Oxford and her new book, The Future of Syntax: Asian Perspectives in an AI Age, explores the complexity within Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, arriving at insights that veer away from traditional approaches to formal syntax. The book also revisits Marc Prensky’s “digital native” concept, laying the groundwork for a new generation of technology users, “AI natives.” Jieun joins Robb and Josh for a conversation about the promise and peril of radical new technologies in classroom settings and how we might shift our focus to designing a positive future for AI natives. In this episode, we mention: Jieun Kiaer’s book “The Future of Syntax: Asian Perspectives in an AI Age”: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/future-of-syntax-9781350258273/ Follow Jieun Kiaer’s work: https://www.ames.ox.ac.uk/people/jieun-kiaer Learn about orchestrating AI agents for your team: https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=future_for_ai_natives_episode&utm_content=1 #AIPodcast #TechPodcast #InvisibleMachines #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #AIInEducation #DigitalNatives #AINatives #FutureOfLearning #TechnologyInClassrooms #AIandEducation #AsianLanguages #Linguistics #TechnologyInEducation #LanguageLearning ##JieunKiaer
Marc Prensky is widely known for coining the terms “digital native” and “digital immigrant”—both now in the Oxford English Dictionary. In this episode, Marc joins Josh for a conversation about the shortcomings of our current education system and how AI might help inspire and enable a new generation of "AI natives" to design their own future. The two discuss the challenges that companies face in adjusting to this new technology paradigm, as well as the potential benefits and risks that conversant machines bring to society. As an eternal optimist, Marc shares his vision of how young people in the third millennium might view productivity and purpose. Marc and Josh also debate the role smartphones play in the classroom of the future, and agree that the world needs more love, empathy, gratitude, and optimism. In this episode, we mention: Marc Prensky’s book “Third Millennium Kids: A Hell Yes! Low Stress Guide For Everyone”: https://www.amazon.com/Third-Millennium-Kids-Stress-Everyone/dp/B0DC3J8XV6 Learn more about Marc Prensky: marcprensky.com Learn about orchestrating AI agents for your team: SoundCloud: https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=digital_natives_episode&utm_content=1 YouTube: https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=digital_natives_episode&utm_content=1 #AIPodcast #TechPodcast #InvisibleMachines #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ConversationalAI #AIAgents #TechInsights #DigitalTransformation #TechTalk #Innovation #DigitalNatives #AIInEducation #FutureOfLearning #TechnologyInClassrooms #MarcPrensky #AINatives
With consumer use of AI technology outpacing enterprise adoption, the fear of companies using AI to get rid of employees has been flipped on its head into legitimate threat to the existence of companies as we know them. There’s nothing preventing consumers from using generative tools to disrupt large companies—for example, using a fleet of AI agents to flood and debilitate a call center to take advantage of a promotion. Harsha Gowda and Nitin Bhudia, respectively the CTO and Director of Innovation at Getronics, join Robb and Josh to discuss the risk organizations take by dragging their feet in the race for AI adoption. This conversation explores how organizations can embrace “artificial incompetence” as a necessary initial phase on the course to artificial intelligence, and seed the velocity that will transform their operations. By using AI agents to create an abstraction layer over existing solutions, organizations can take control of their futures. In this episode, we mention: The Invisible Machines episode “Digital Twins in an Agentic World” with Dr. Michael Grieves, the father of Digital Twins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsL3w2bVjmw The TV series “Fawlty Towers”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072500/ Learn more about Getronics: https://www.getronics.com/ Discover how to succeed with an agentic approach to software: https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai_and_companies_episode&utm_content=1 #AIPodcast #TechPodcast #InvisibleMachines #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ConversationalAI #AIAgents #TechInsights #DigitalTransformation #TechTalk #Innovation #GenerativeAI #BusinessStrategy #AIAdoption #OrganizationalAGI
Digital twins are critical to the orchestration of AI agents, providing the context they need to create meaningful experiences quickly and efficiently. Robb and Josh welcome Dr. Michael Grieves for a conversation about the origins of the concept, which he developed while working with NASA in the 2010s. The architecture required for orchestrating AI agents relies on different types of digital twins that may emerge within an organization, touching on physical elements, temporal data, and collections of unstructured data. Dr. Grieves joins the podcast to explore these connections, drawing from his book Product Lifecycle Management as well as his numerous scientific publications. The trio also discusses how something Michael calls “retirementitus” prevents organizations from embracing the sweeping technologies surrounding AI and digital twins. In this episode, we mention: Dr. Michael Grieves’ book “Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking”: https://www.amazon.com/Product-Lifecycle-Management-Generation-Thinking/dp/0071452303 Dr. Michael Grieves’ book “Digital Twins, Simulation, and the Metaverse: Driving Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Physical World through Simulation in the Virtual Worlds (Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications): https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Twins-Simulation-Metaverse-Effectiveness/dp/3031691067 The Invisible Machines episode “Building an Advanced Digital Assistant” with Jeff McMillan (Head of AI) and David Wu (Head of Knowledge Management & Generative AI) at Morgan Stanley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iQbufK1luE&t=1567s Charles Perrow’s book “Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies: https://www.perlego.com/book/735258/normal-accidents-living-with-high-risk-technologies-updated-edition-pdf The Invisible Machines episode with Dr. Nathan Price, Chief Scientific Officer of Thorn HealthTech, and Dr. Lee Hood, a world-renowned scientist, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, and a key contributor to the human genome project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrrEu5TNqFg The Invisible Machines episode “Lean Knowledge Management” with Roger Forsgren, former Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4A_JiBRCr8 You can learn more about orchestrating AI agents for your team: https://onereach.ai/ai-agents/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=digital_twins_episode&utm_content=1 #AIPodcast #TechPodcast #InvisibleMachines #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ConversationalAI #AIAgents #TechInsights #DigitalTwins #AIOrchestration #ProductManagement #TechInnovation #DataArchitecture #MichaelGrieves #FutureOfAI #TechTalk
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