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Cam’s World 21 May, 2007

Monday, May 21st, 2007

The guys from the Singularity Institute are trying to get on the front page of Digg. Do me a favour and DIGG SIAI.
See also Eliezer’s new video interview.
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Remember Stan Relihan from episode #219? The LinkedIn guy? Well I’m excited to announce that he’s starting his own show on TPN! You may recall I half-jokingly [...]

G’DAY WORLD #238 - Eliezer Yudkowsky

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Forgive me Father - it’s been at least two weeks since my last podcast.
I figured you guys needed some time to digest my last run of shows. Ready for more yet?
Another show on the coming of the technological singularity today. My guest is Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder and research fellow at the Singularity Institute [...]

 
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Biomimicry example on CleanTech podcast

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Peter Ellyard and I were talking recently about the field of “biomimicry” and so I was excited to see that episode #2 of our Nick’s new CleanTech podcast on TPN has an interview about that very subject. He interviews Dr. Tim Finnigan, Founder and CEO of Biopower Systems, a distributed ocean power technology company. They [...]

Cam’s World 5 May, 2007

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Anais Nin wrote: “Fred criticizes Henry’s reading, his efforts to think, attacks his knowledge of science, interest in movies, in theatre, in philosophy, criticism, biography. A big enough artist can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. Henry is fulfilling a deep necessity: to [...]

G’DAY WORLD #234 - Artificial Intelligence with Dr Ben Goertzel Ph.D

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

My guest on this episode is Dr Benjamin Goertzel Ph.D, CEO and CSO of Novamente LLC, a privately held AI software company.

He explains Novamente’s approach to AGI (artificial general intelligence) and their plans to release some of their early products into the Second Life universe. We also talk about:

the history and challenges of AI research

his [...]

 
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G’DAY WORLD #231 - Physics 101

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Happy ANZAC Day to all you Aussies!
My guests today are Dr Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain from the very excellent Astronomy Cast! They agreed (a decision they may now regret) to try to answer some of my insanely big questions about the Universe. Questions such as:
- what is the fabric of spacetime?
- what is [...]

 
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