"And I knew that, as a young kid, I was impressionable. So, some of the people that I saw with the most things, like the nice cars and the Jordans and the jewelry, they were dealing drugs, and they were doing things that they shouldn’t have been doing"

"and so I grew up really having to take care of myself and figure things out for myself ... but growing up independent also meant that I spent a lot of time out in the streets"

"Most of the men in my family were in jail, on drugs, caught up in the wrong things, and those are the things that I saw around me in Richmond"

"With technology I felt like anybody can do it, that it’s something for regular guys and girls. I loved that. I loved the democratization of success that technology offered"

"It has a distinctive feel and culture. You had to be tough, be aware. You had to be able to quickly adjust and maneuver"

"I don’t think people are honest and direct in life. My word really matters to me – honestly, that really matters to me. It’s so important"

"what are some things you are interested in? Whatever you want to learn, anything is possible. If you want to be a coder, you can go online and learn how to code. The tools around us to learn are greater than any time before. Anything is at your finger tips if you want to learn"

"What gets me out of bed is that I can make a positive impact on people"

"I don’t write anything down at all. It comes off the top of my head. It’s very casual. I want to feel like we are sitting in a cafe in Paris, and we are speaking to each other. I want it to be human and real"

"We were always trying to find different ways where we could hustle and make a little bit of money for ourselves"

"It’s such a surreal moment for me because I grew up 10 minutes away on the south side of the city ... but my whole life has been about doing things that weren’t imaginable for people coming from my background and my situation, and that’s the thing that keeps me going and inspires the work that I do at Kickstarter every single day"

"We work really hard to make sure these products are designed the most environmentally friendly manner. They're arsenic free display glass, mercury free displays, BFR free, PBC free and yes, Android free."

""What we needed, is nothing less than an “AI Manhattan Project”, a full frontal assault on common sense: the challenge is to create an Encyclopédia of Common sense", Michio Kaku citing Lenat."

"Sometimes the veneer of intelligence is not enough."

"If computers were human, they’d present themselves as autistic, schizophrenic, or otherwise brittle. It would be unwise or dangerous for that person to take care of children and cook meals, but it’s on the horizon for home robots. That’s like saying, ‘We have an important job to do, but we’re going to hire dogs and cats to do it.'"

"Intelligence is ten million rules. This refers to the prior and tacit knowledge that authors presume their readers all possess (such as "if person x knows person y, then x's date of death can't be earlier than y's date of birth") not counting the vastly larger number of "facts" such as one might find in Wikipedia or by Googling."

"The time may come when a greatly expanded Cyc will underlie countless software applications. But reaching that goal could easily take another two decades."

"Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing."

"”Current AI technologies like LLMs and convolutional neural networks are focused on effective absorption of large-scale training data and fulfilment of queries based on the information in this data.”"

"“The more we can be our best selves' (which includes becoming less attached to our “selves” as traditionally conceived) in the coming period, the more likely we are to make judicious choices as we move toward AGI and then ASI.”"

"“This sort of technology, on its own, seems clearly not capable of producing HLAGI — but does seem very promising as a component of integrated multi-module AGI systems. This sort of technology is also not capable of real moral agency or ethical understanding.”"

"“The concept of open-ended intelligence is also important to reflect on. The fundamental nature of AGI systems is to pursue the complementary and sometimes contradictory meta-goals of individuation (maintenance of system boundaries) and self-transcendence (growing beyond oneself and leaping into the great unknown) … and this means that whatever algorithms one uses to seed an AGI, it is highly possible that as it grows and learns and reflects on its own nature and improves its own software and hardware infrastructure, it will end up with different algorithms entirely.”"

"Interactive storytelling with the robot helps the AI enter into the same mind space as a human child while being there in the same physical space."

"The main bottlenecks in humanoid robotics are actually software bottlenecks, not hardware bottlenecks."

""There's still this one big heroic task for humans to come together and cooperate in building AGI, but now is the time to do it. We're at a very interesting time for AI developers to jump in... within a couple of months the super fast version is going to be dealing with practical problems”"

"Not everything you would do at the AI level needs to be a smart contract, but having that portability between the AI level and the infrastructure level is great for flexibility."

"By having different shards of the ASI chain dedicated to different types of AI — from decentralised finance to training neural models — we can tailor the infrastructure for specific AI tasks."

"Humanoid robotics is becoming popular post DeepSeek for mostly kind of shallow and commercial reasons where people are like, 'Well, if there's no software, what can we invest in?'"

"“I am actively working to bring BGI about, sooner rather than later. And I think you probably should be too.”"

"We’re not the only ones to think about decentralised AI — projects like Fetch.ai and Ocean Protocol were also exploring these concepts in 2017-18."

"In 2017, we launched the AGI token, and since then we’ve been building out decentralised AI infrastructure in parallel with developing concrete AGI systems like Hyperon."

"The ASI Alliance is an unusual merger where different organisations like Singularity, Fetch, Ocean, and Cudos remain distinct but merged their tokens into one, now called the ASI token for artificial super intelligence."

"We’re building a decentralised AI infrastructure where AI systems are deployed across different nodes, communicating with each other, running on a constellation of machines that can be owned and controlled by different people."

"Blockchain is the best technology we have today for coordinating a large global network of machines without a central owner or controller."

"The ASI chain, launching later this summer, is the first layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for decentralised AGI, with the smart contract language Meta, the same AGI programming language we've developed."

"AI tools themselves have become accelerators of AI progress, making the work faster and faster — this is an indication that the singularity is indeed near."

"“The economic and value of increasingly powerful — and increasingly generally intelligent — AI has become clear both to major socioeconomic actors and to everyday people.”"

"An LLM is pretty general in what it can do, but it's not able to make creative and imaginative leaps beyond its preparation in the way that a person can."