Ai on the Joe Rogan Experience

“we have to get the us government to give billions of dollars to your research to guarantee that the singularity in 2012 is a good singularity, right? So he led…”

Goertzel recounts that around 2007 a McKenna-inspired associate tried to get billions of dollars in US government funding for his and Hugo de Garis's AI research to ensure a 'positive' technological singularity by 2012.

“i would like to get a human level general intelligence in five to seven years from now”

Goertzel predicts human-level artificial general intelligence will be achieved within five to seven years of this 2019 interview (i.e., roughly 2024-2026).

“Where there are two and a half million call center workers still in the United States. Generally high school graduates that make about $14 an hour.”

Yang claims there are 2.5 million call center workers in the US and predicts AI will become indistinguishable from a human very soon.

“Now it is closed source and for maximum profit. So it's like, I mean, to some degree, I think reality is an irony maximizer.”

Musk claims OpenAI, which he says he founded and named as an open-source nonprofit AI project, has become fully closed-source and profit-maximizing.

“There's a level beyond that which is, say, like, smarter than all humans combined, which frankly is around 2029 or 2030, probably right on time.”

Musk predicts AI will become smarter than all humans combined by around 2029 or 2030.

“AI is going to draw more electricity than anything else in the United States, more than steel production. Ok. Used to.”

Carlson claims AI data centers will become the single largest electricity draw in the United States, surpassing what steel production used to consume.

“I met with Congress. I was at a meeting of all 50 governors and talked about just AI danger. And I talked to everyone I could.”

Musk claims he met with Congress and with a meeting of all 50 US governors to warn about AI danger.

“So from a long-term existential standpoint, that's like the purpose of Neuralink is to create a high bandwidth interface to the brain such that we can be symbi…”

Musk describes Neuralink's purpose as creating a high-bandwidth brain interface enabling humans to be symbiotic with AI, and says in a few months there would be an announcement of something 'at least an order of magnitude better than anything else.'