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Nick Frosst is a computer scientist and musician. He co-founded Cohere, which is a company focused on training large language models and making them available through a network-based API. He was also the first employee of Geoffrey Hinton Google Brain lab in Toronto, where he spent 3 years researching capsule networks, adversarial examples, and explainability.
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David Shapiro. David is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning ChatGPT to his proposed solution to the alignment problem. His work focuses on ensuring that advanced technologies are used safely, bringing about an abundant, post-scarcity, post-nihilistic future.

Relevant episodes:
“Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger”
“Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel”
“Ep. 147: Could heuristic imperatives solve the AI alignment problem? | David Shapiro”
“Ep. 146: Will AI replace humans? | Peter St Onge”

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After a long career as a software engineer and data scientist, John became an independent researcher in artificial intelligence. Today he focuses on a diverse array of topics, such as the nature of abstraction and what the word "agency" even means.
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Dr. Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center, where he holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism. He is the co-editor of the books "A Companion to Ayn Rand" and "Foundations of a Free Society" and the author of numerous articles on philosophy, with a particular focus on Aristotle and Ayn Rand.

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Dr. Johannes Jaeger is a systems scientist, evolutionary biologist, educator, and natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary track record. His investigations, first as the head of an empirical lab, later as the director of an institute for the philosophy of biology, and then as a freelance investigator, have always focused on organisms as complex adaptive systems. He is currently leading a research project at the Dept of Philosophy of the University of Vienna called “Pushing the Boundaries,” which concerns the differences between machines and organisms, and the importance of this difference for evolution. He is associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna, and a scholar at the Ronin Institute.
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Dr. Anton Howes is a historian of invention. He is currently writing a book on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, and is official historian for the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, as well as head of innovation research for The Entrepreneurs Network. He is a visiting fellow at King's College London, where he was previously lecturer in Economic History. He regularly shares his research on the history of invention at his online newsletter Age of Invention.
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