Danko Nikolic and John Smart on Practopoiesis, Autopoiesis, and the AI Alignment Problem

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This is an interview with Danko Nikolic and John Smart on the future of AI and their respective theories of Practopoiesis – Neuromimicry, and Autopoiesis – Biomimicry. During our 2-hour conversation with Danko and John, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as evolution, development, and life as a network; practopoiesis and the origins of intelligence; the power-law problem with too many AI parameters; whether we need a new non-von-Neuman hardware design or not; John’s Natural Intelligence Hypothesis; Danko’s Robots Go Mental and guided transfer learning; consciousness and emotional AI; biomimicry, neuromimicry and the AI Alignment Problem; education, progress and asking questions. My favorite quotes that I will take away from this conversation with Danko Nikolic and John Smart are: "The critical survivor of the Evo-Devo system is the network. Life is a network." and "Consciousness is the price to pay for intelligence." As always you can listen to or download the audio file above or scroll down and watch the video interview in full. To show your support you can write a review on iTunes, make a direct donation, or become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/singularityfm