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Geordie Rose: Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think

“Machine learning is progressing faster than you think.”

Geordie Rose said that to me in 2013.

Back then, it sounded like the kind of thing a quantum computing CEO says to drum up attention. Today it reads like a weather report.

Thirteen years ago, the D-Wave founder and CTO sat down with me for over two hours and laid out a thesis most observers found extreme: machine learning would become broadly available far faster than anyone hoped, and quantum computers would help us build AI by 2029.

The 2029 date sounded like science fiction.

It does not sound like science fiction anymore.

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Stelarc on Transhumanism: We Are in a Time of Circulating Flesh!

“We are in a time of circulating flesh.”

Stelarc said that to me 13 years ago. In 2026, it reads less like art criticism and more like a status report.

He had grown an ear on his arm. He had hung himself from hooks 25 times. He had let strangers on the internet choreograph his muscles through electrical stimulation, his body remote-controlled across continents.

Most people called it spectacle. I think it was inquiry.

Because long before deepfakes, before voice cloning, before AI agents wearing our faces, was already asking the question we now cannot avoid:

Where does the body end and the network begin?

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Dr. Stuart Hameroff: Consciousness is More than Computation!

13 years ago, I walked into Dr. Stuart Hameroff’s operating room with a camera, a microphone, and a single stubborn question:

Is consciousness computation?

Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona, and co-author with Sir Roger Penrose of the Orch OR theory, said no.

Emphatically. Unfashionably. Against the entire weight of mainstream neuroscience and Silicon Valley orthodoxy.

At the GF2045 conference, where I first met him, Ray Kurzweil went out of his way to declare Orch OR “totally wrong.” Others called it speculative. Untestable. Unscientific.

Today, in the age of large language models, that argument is no longer a niche dispute among philosophers and physicists. It is the decisive question of our century.

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Human vs. Machine Consciousness | Imperial’s Murray Shanahan

An interview with Murray Shanahan on philosophy and AI consciousness.

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Frank J. Tipler: The Laws of Physics Say The Singularity is Inevitable!

13 years ago, a Tulane physicist told me I didn’t understand the laws of physics.

That’s why, he said, I can’t see why the Singularity is inevitable. Or why it’s perfectly compatible with Christianity.

Fair enough.

Dr. Frank J. Tipler is the cosmologist behind the Omega Point. He is a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University, and the author of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The Physics of Immortality, and The Physics of Christianity.

He didn’t come on Singularity FM to soften his views. He came to defend them.

In one hour we covered:

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The Hammer of AI: When Every Problem Looks Like a Nail

There is no dataset for grief.

No metric for justice.

No optimizer for legitimacy.

And yet we keep bringing the Hammer of AI to every problem we face. Climate change. Pandemics. Cancer. Energy. War. Political corruption. There is no problem that the omnipresent, all-knowing, all-mighty artificial superintelligence will not eventually crack.

This is a religion. Technology is its faith. Silicon Valley is its Promised Land. Entrepreneurs are its prophets. And we are all believers.

I should know. I used to be one.

In my latest piece on Singularity Weblog, I argue that some problems do bend to computation: fusion, protein folding, the genome. But others do not. They are not computable, only livable. And when we hammer them anyway, things break. Sometimes the thing that breaks is the problem. Sometimes it is us.

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2030 The Survival Singularity: Why Billionaires Are Panicking

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We Are Creating Artificial Brains

The Big Why explores the cutting edge of science and technology: Artificial Brains! 🧠🤖 In this mind-blowing video, we dive into the quest to replicate the human brain’s complexity and power in a machine.

Discover the various approaches scientists are taking, from simulating neural networks to building brain-like hardware. We’ll examine the potential of this technology to revolutionize medicine, robotics, and even our understanding of consciousness.

But we won’t shy away from the big questions either: Could artificial brains surpass human intelligence? What are the ethical implications of creating conscious machines? Join us as we ponder the future of AI and the potential for a technological singularity.

#ArtificialBrain #AI #Neuroscience #Robotics #FutureTech #Consciousness #Singularity #thebigwhy

00:00 — Intro
01:33 — Overview
03:39 — Approaches to Brain Simulation
06:02 — Artificial Brain Thought Experiment
07:40 — Outro.

What is quantum gravity? Scientists think it could explain the beginning of our universe

“General relativity works extraordinarily well in many settings, but when we run it back to the Big Bang, and apply it to the inside of black holes, it predicts a singularity: a moment where density, curvature and temperature formally become infinite. That is usually a sign that the theory is being pushed beyond where it can be trusted,” Afshordi told Space.com. “In other words, general relativity is likely incomplete for describing the very first moments of the universe, when quantum effects should also matter.”

Afshordi explained that in the standard picture of the Big Bang, scientists usually start with Einstein’s theory of gravity, then add extra ingredients to explain the earliest moments of the universe, most notably a hypothetical “inflation field” to account for the initial rapid expansion of the cosmos.”

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