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Future of Science & Technology Q&A (27 videos)

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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Do you think the latest electric car is worth buying these days? What is the future of cars? With technology integration, would we be able to do away with having to sleep in the future? As far as human evolution, do you believe the human race is still evolving or have we peaked as a species? What's next in the stage of human evolution? Will we ever have technology that will allow us to learn while we sleep? Noise seems to be almost inevitable when it comes to flying. Do you think there's a way to solve this? How do you optimize the sky for regular air travel to accommodate flying cars? It doesn't seem feasible to build roads and traffic lights in the sky. What about the future of tunnels? We've got two options for 3D travel space! About flying cars: flying is dangerous and requires more training and skill and safety than ground cars. Flying cars would take up an incredible amount of energy. Do you think it's even feasible that they would replace ground transportation? What kind of architecture would we need in order to build an AI that is as good at math as LLMs are at language? Do you think this will be a fundamentally different architecture than a neural network? If so, how do humans do math in any self-consistent way at all? Does AI being an interface to books mean there will be more subject matter experts or fewer? Will technology carry us away from the human condition, or allow it to flourish? What does the future of libraries look like? Lots of libraries have ebook checkouts now. The future of the library is the anti-library—more books collected than read. Even with modern internet mass information available, I still greatly value my personal physical library: several thousand technical reference books, documentation and circuit diagrams for all manner of things... much of which cannot be found online yet. View Less »
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