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"How do we use computation models to reverse-engineer intuitive theories and teach an AI to evolve based on these principals?"

"Physically-based techniques facilitate the creation of models capable of automatically synthesizing complex shapes and realistic motions that were, until recently, attainable only by skilled animators, if at all."

"Physically-based modeling adds new levels of representation to graphics objects. In addition to geometry — forces, torques, velocities, accelerations, kinetic and potential energies, heat, and other physical quantities are used to control the creation and evolution of models. Simulated physical laws govern model behavior, and animators can guide their models using physically-based control systems. Physically-based models are responsive to one another and to the simulated physical worlds that they inhabit."

"I would like to talk about deformable models, which are physically-based models of nonrigid objects. I have worked on deformable models for graphics applications primarily with Kurt Fleischer and also with John Platt and Andy Witkin. Deformable models are based on the continuum mechanics of flexible materials. Using deformable models, we can model the shapes of flexible objects like cloth, plasticine, and skin, as well as their motions through space under the action of forces and subject to constraints."

"Here is a simulated physical world — a very simple world consisting of a room with walls and a floor. A spherical obstacle rests in the middle of the floor. You’re seeing the collision of an elastically deformable solid with the sphere. Of course, we’re also simulating gravity."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"To succeed, you need to believe in yourself and your abilities."

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

"Don't be afraid to take risks. Sometimes you have to step outside of your comfort zone to achieve greatness."

"Your dreams are worth fighting for. Never give up on what you truly want in life."

"I’m not going to answer it because I’m not a futurist, I’m a scientist. I do not believe in making predictions about the future; I believe in understanding what the possibilities are, and then trying to make the best one become the future. I am going to try to convince you that AI can help us better understand social interaction, that it can create a positive future in the form of systems that evoke natural social interaction from people in an increasingly technological world, and that it can preserve one of the aspects of humanity that we care most about—our sociality."

"AI appears to be evoking a similar kind of moral panic, but in this case it’s more about a perceived threat to our capacity for empathy. Have we become more willing to inflict great pain on others without misgivings? Have we lost our sense of responsibility for one another? In that context, my research program, which has strong continuities with my graduate work in linguistics and psychology, is to understand better how we interact with one another, how we work, play, and learn with our peers, then to understand whether AI is ineluctably making those interactions worse. If it is not, then we can work toward an AI that will maintain the good—perhaps even make it better. In my early years as a researcher, I attempted to better understand how we use language and the body to enhance interactions with others. Today I have added technology to the mix, and have added the challenge of building AI entities that jointly use language and the body to work, play, and learn with others. The knowledge that results from these experiments allows us to build technology that better supports our interpersonal and community goals. And those technologies can be a way to better understand how we work and play and learn."

"There is a need for a more human-centered design of AI systems so that they may act as partners and teammates to people rather than their replacements. My work in Social AI attempts to address these design challenges by basing AI agent behavior on a close study of human collaboration and teamwork, thereby working towards fulfilling their societal promise, as well as advancing fundamental areas of AI as diverse as natural language generation and transparency in machine learning."

"You just glanced at your phone, didn’t you? That’s exactly how algorithms draw us in. We’re living suspended between two worlds: one where AI quietly decides who gets hired, what news we see, and which voices we hear—and another where millennia of human wisdom sit waiting to guide us."

"After forty years building AI systems and twenty years studying dharma in Indian ashrams, author Alok R. Chaturvedi learned something crucial: our digital future desperately needs our philosophical past. This isn’t another robot apocalypse book—it is an invitation to see technology through ancient wisdom made urgently relevant as artificial general intelligence approaches."

"Through deeply human stories—a coder discovering her biases embedded in “neutral” algorithms, a parent watching their child disappear into endless scrolling—we explore how technology impacts us across three dimensions: Daihik (personal), Daivik (universal), and Bhautik (material). We also examine how technology carries the Three Gunas: Sattvik (clarity), Rajasik (restlessness), and Tamsik (numbness). Additionally, The Dharma of AI introduces the Five Guardians, which are timeless ethical principles: Ahimsa (do no harm), Satya (seek truth), Asteya (take only what’s given), Brahmacharya (consume mindfully), and Dharma (act righteously). Whether building technology, raising children, or seeking authentic digital living, this book offers profound insight and practical wisdom for our most urgent conversation."

"Great leaps forward in scientific understanding have, throughout history, engendered similar leaps forward in how we understand ourselves. Now, the new hybrid disciplines of evolutionary biology and social physics are making the next leap possible—and fundamentally altering our notions of individual identity. If identity is a fact not derived from within the individual, but conferred on an individual by a group, or network, a host of assumptions about how governments work, how conflicts arise and are resolved, and how societies can be coaxed toward good are overturned. John Clippinger brilliantly illuminates how the Enlightenment itself—the high point of individual assertiveness—was a product not just of a few moments of individual inspiration and creativity, but rather of a societal shift that allowed innovation and creativity to flourish. Michelangelo owes quite as much to the circumstances of the Renaissance as the Renaissance does to the work of Michelangelo. Now, the digitalization of society, which affects all of us already, allows new insight into these What does it require for societies, organizations and individuals, to thrive? Who decides who you are? How can happiness be shared and spread? Who can you trust?"

"Increasingly interconnected, volatile, and complex, today's organizations cannot be controlled by any conventional approach to management. Indeed, an entirely new definition of what it means to manage is called for. In The Biology of Business, John Clippinger and nine outstanding contributors introduce managers to the Complex Adaptive System (CAS) of management, a system that takes into account all of the variables that impact modern enterprises and allows managers to take control from the bottom up. Here, the authors show how McKinsey & Co., Capital One, and Optimark have employed CAS to achieve specific business goals and improve overall corporate fitness. And they bridge theory and practice to provide managers with proven tools and techniques they can use to transform their enterprises into self-renewing, self-organizing systems that are maximally responsive to changing market conditions and opportunities"

"In 1842 after (US president) Andrew Jackson shut down the banks, people produced their own copper coins, called hard-times tokens. It was a bottom-up protest. There is a similar logic with bitcoin. During the 2008 banking crisis people could not trust fiat and the authorities that have oversight. There is a real distrust in the conventional mechanism so that is why token sales, to a certain segment, are seen as a safe haven."

"there is physics for AI, where there are concepts from physics that can help you build better AI tools, even if you aren’t directly studying physical systems. You can build machine learning architectures that have physics-style reasoning embedded and those concepts turn out to be quite powerful."

"The concept of a digital token is not obvious. It is a unit for exchange of value between two or more parties, but it is more than a transaction. It is a unit of value that binds a relationship. Digital tokens can take the form of smart contracts and be quite complex. They can take different forms under different conditions. They can be a commodity, a currency, a security, or all of those things. That is why there is some confusion and issues about how to regulate them. Tokens can also be an expression of trust. A token could be a credential that I use to assert something about myself. It can be used for digital identity. It can be certification of certain attributes such as age or place of residence or a credential proving that you earned a diploma. Tokens can get you access to different kind of services. They assert different forms of trust and value and can be dynamically updated."

"Bitcoin is a kind of token — a demand- backed asset like a commodity or a unit of exchange. Ether is an example of a token you can use to purchase certain services. Smart contracts run on Ether so you could also use these tokens to keep track of and use your frequent flyer miles. To extend this further, a token can be like a virtual good: companies like (the Chinese conglomerate) TenCent create their own digital currencies which are used in the game world to buy virtual goods. This has proven to be extremely successful with lots of people buying or exchanging tokens. Imagine applying this to the business model of Facebook or Google. They have very iffy data that can’t be properly verified. There could be a lot of value if the person who owns the data would agree to trade that knowing that he can benefit from that financially. The notion of self-sovereign ID and data is now accepted, and companies that don’t comply will be vulnerable to heavy penalty. Tokens can be used to create a common protocol on how to handle permissions to use data so companies don’t run afoul of liability laws."

"When the SEC issued an opinion on the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) blow-up they correctly censored them because really they were selling securities. However if one is careful it can be treated as an asset token. If it is a rewards program with no passive income derived or voting shares then it is really not a security. When you increase the supply of a currency you have to offset that by creating debt because you can’t print money. With digital currencies it is not necessarily the case. If you issue tokens with specific value propositions around different sectors you don’t have to offset that with debt. There are examples of this in the sharing economy. If you look at next-generation mobility services and autonomous vehicles, it is very unlikely the vehicles will be privately owned. There will be a huge congestion problem but if you can have access and that can be guaranteed then that is better than owning your own car. There is a token called Lambo coin which allows people to buy part of a Lamborghini and have access privileges at all times. This is indicative of where things are going. It’s a membership model like timeshare but much lighter and easier to do."

"ICOs are token generation events. There is sloppiness in how people talk about utilization tokens versus speculation tokens. An example of a utilization token is when you join a community and create a kilowatt of sustainable energy and it generates a token."

"We have a monetary system and fiat system that is quite ancient and not digital and does not reap the benefits of what digital tech and cryptography can do. The rate of innovation and change is only accelerating so it is just a matter of time before we shift to a highly decentralized and digital system with cryptographic proofs and other kinds of mechanisms to verify transactions and services. You are seeing that already in the rapid uptake of crypto currencies in different jurisdictions around the world: Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg, UK, Russia. There is lots of activity in China but the government there is a wildcard in this. We are seeing the beginnings of a new international financial system. Right now there are lots of issues around the technology and it is in an early phase but in my experience I have never seen such rapid speed of innovation. Every week something changes. Decentralization is starting to take place. If you can avoid and control the inflation and bubble manipulation then you are creating a much more accurate, more transparent system than you have currently because you can have analytics and artificial intelligence looking at every pattern in hyper real-time speed."

"Don’t incur debt. Don’t give up equity and make customers token holders. There will be a lot of new options for public financing. Underwriting will be dramatically different."

"Tokens are a very powerful way of distributing control. How many companies will make the shift to a token-based economy? Big companies coming from China like Tencent and Alibaba understand it. The old industrial companies will fight it. They may win some battles but they won’t be able to compete because of the way they are organized. The net of this is not an easy message. Corporations like to think about change being incremental and they don’t like it when I tell them that in this case it won’t be."

"O que podemos com elas em nosso favor e de mulher em mulher nos dizermos e contarmos do domínio que ainda somos, despojo hoje de guerreiros que se fingem companheiros em ajudada luta, mas que apenas pretendem montar-nos e serem cavaleiros de Marianas de outros cativeiros presas e monjas de diferentes conventos, sem disso se darem conta?"

"AI and physics is really a two-way street: AI’s influence on how we research new physics phenomena, but also applying physics thinking to the way that AI systems operate."

"I basically told them, in no uncertain terms, that this was not the way that I thought physics research should be going. And they agreed with me, actually, about the off-the-shelf use of machine learning."

"Where would someone live within the academic ecosystem if they wanted to dive into physics topics, but also computation and statistics? That was the motivation for submitting a grant to the NSF to start this institute.If you think about AI solely as it applies to fundamental physics research, we have massive challenges in our field and we’re trying to understand some of the deepest questions in nature."

"Cosmology is another area with massive amounts of data and massive computational costs to run simulations of the universe. Without something like machine learning, we simply wouldn't be able to tackle those problems."

"Scientists in the Netherlands are endowing a robotic cat with a set of logical rules for emotions. They believe that by introducing emotional variables to the decision-making process, they should be able to create more-natural human and computer interactions."

"“I absolutely love it… I think it’s going to be one of the things I’ll be most happy that I did, when I die. Because it’s a culture change – a culture change has taken place.”"

"“You’re asking the actors to be characters, and to really interrogate what’s going on between those characters. What are the physical beats in this that we break down like a stunt, and what are the emotional beats? And what you find is that these scenes become so rich, so beautifully delicate.”"

"“The big receive for me was understanding how much the language was connected to the natural world. So that was a real in for me, and it’s something when I’m talking to Pākehā audiences, it’s actually all around us, te reo is all around us.”"

"Where the four-wheel vehicle stops, that's where the radio wave starts."

"WWe also advise them on actual agricultural activity."

"Concerns about intelligence are not confined to concerns about our leaders. Our school systems use cognitive tests to stream high school students into different pro¬ grams. Colleges use cognitive tests to screen applicants for higher education programs. These tests are never called “intelligence tests,” but they correlate highly with them."

"Testing is not confined to the educational system. Volunteers for the United States military services must obtain passing scores on a test of general mental competence, the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT)."

"Luck is laboring under correct knowledge"

"The trick to thinking big is to think small. Especially when you don’t really know where something’s going to go. We assume we have to have a plan fully baked out before we can launch something—but that’s not how life works."

"Maybe it’s actually good for the world to see that we’re not just magical. We’re actually just incredibly pragmatic, hard-working people. I want us to stop being so safe."

"The world is not a fixed porcelain structure. It is clay. And that’s it. There’s always a way to create something that works for you."

"Enough Black women need to fall. I want us to stop being so safe. Let us look not so magical. We’re not going to move forward exponentially until we start taking some risks."

"I use business, not as an end, but as a tool to have an impact. I treat God as my biggest investor."

"Make money, do well, drive things forward. But as a person can you look yourself in the mirror? Are you creating a better world for people?"

"I have the ability to not see the world as it is but to see the world as it should be. That’s something that would not have happened not only if I wasn’t just Nigerian American, but if I wasn’t a woman of color."

"I had a feeling that Jokkolabs could help foster new forms of active citizenship."