Max Tegmark | On superhuman AI, future architectures, and the meaning of human existence

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Published 2024-05-20
This conversation between Max Tegmark and Joel Hellermark was recorded in April 2024 at Max Tegmark’s MIT office. An edited version was premiered at Sana AI Summit on May 15 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Max Tegmark is a professor doing AI and physics research at MIT as part of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Fundamental Interactions and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. He is also the president of the Future of Life Institute and the author of the New York Times bestselling books Life 3.0 and Our Mathematical Universe. Max’s unorthodox ideas have earned him the nickname “Mad Max.”

Joel Hellermark is the founder and CEO of Sana. An enterprising child, Joel taught himself to code in C at age 13 and founded his first company, a video recommendation technology, at 16. In 2021, Joel topped the Forbes 30 Under 30. This year, Sana was recognized on the Forbes AI 50 as one of the startups developing the most promising business use cases of artificial intelligence.

Timestamps
From cosmos to AI (00:00:00)
Creating superhuman AI (00:05:00)
Superseding humans (00:09:32)
State of AI (00:12:15)
Self-improving models (00:16:17)
Human vs machine (00:18:49)
Gathering top minds (00:19:37)
The “bananas” box (00:24:20)
Future Architecture (00:26:50)
AIs evaluating AIs (00:29:17)
Handling AI safety (00:35:41)
AI fooling humans? (00:40:11)
The utopia (00:42:17)
The meaning of life (00:43:40)

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All Comments (21)
  • @skane3109
    Max Tegmark is a giant thinker and amazing scientist, teacher, author and human being. It’s one of the miracles of our time that we can all listen in on these long form conversations through the internet. Best time ever to be alive as far as I can tell.
  • @BrunoPadilhaBlog
    Max Tegmark looks like the lead singer of a heavy metal band who happens to be a genius scientist in his spare time. Brilliant guy btw, I really like him
  • @2945antonio
    What an extraordinary privilege to listen to this conversation. Thank you.
  • @springhillfitness6837
    Brilliant, level headed, and humble... Exactly what the world needs now in the AI space. Go Max!
  • @stephengreene8774
    What a great privilege to hear Max puzzle out the future of humanity for us all to listen in.
  • @jippoti2227
    Super interesting! I read Max Tegmark's book "Life 3.0" years ago and loved it. He presents very big but plausible ideas and his thoughts always fascinate me.
  • @marshallodom1388
    Max is one of those brilliant, well-spoken, non-bs kinda guys I would want to invite to my "dinner party of the greatest people to ever have a conversation with".
  • @dennisg967
    Thank you guys for the amazing video!!!!!
  • @AIForHumansShow
    Love Max's Life 3.0 book so much. I keep referring back to it all the time over the last few years.
  • @johnkintree763
    I a glad there is an emerging global digital platform that will be able to have conversations with millions of people around the world at the same time, and to merge the knowledge and sentiment expressed in those conversations into representations of the collective will of humanity, a synergy of human and digital intelligence.
  • @azurata
    Great interview, thank you for sharing!