AI & Identity, from East & West, with Yohei Nakajima GP at Untapped Capital and BabyAGI Creator

In today's episode Yohei Nakajima, GP at Untapped Capital and Creator of BabyAGI, returns to the show. Together with Nathan, they watch Yohei’s TEDAI Talk, unpacking themes on collective intelligence, identity, and how AI can help us better understand one another. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period.

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LINKS: - Yohei's TEDAI Talk: https://www.ai-event.ted.com/panelists/yohei-nakajima - Listen to Yohei Nakajima Part 1 on The Cognitive Revolution here: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-agents-vc-insights-on-ai-and-building-in-public-with-yohei-nakajima-creator-of-babyagi/

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TIMESTAMPS: (06:39) Yohei's AI Creation Process (09:50) Differences between models (15:46) Sponsor - Brave Search API | Shopify (20:10) Knowledge Graphs (24:30) Shift to philosophical discussion (27:40) GPT Store (30:28) Sponsor - NetSuite | Omneky (35:40) Eastern Philosophy and Identity (36:22) How different societies will relate to Ai (37:00) Appreciate how much philosophy is embedded into language (39:03) Japan's policy towards AI and individual privacy (40:15) Eastern philosophy view of the brain (40:51) AI is a tool much like real intelligence (42:20) AI in China (42:46) Collective, extended cognition (44:10) Emergence in ants (44:51) Language model performance in different languages (47:06) Nationalism and AI (48:31) Tokenization, unicode, and cost structure between languages (56:54) Accepting, not understanding (59:24) AI bridging connection

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Release date

Lydbog: 1. februar 2024