Designing General Intelligence and Agential Systems | Ekkolapto @ UToronto
WHAT ⭐️:
• Speakers: Professor William Hahn, Professor Elan Barenholtz, Andrés Gómez Emilsson from Qualia Research Institute, TBA!
TOPICS:
• William Hahn: Infohazards, Thoughtforms, Digital Psychedelics, Hyperorganisms.
• Elan Barenholtz: How Humans and LLMs Are the Same, Linguistic Latent Space, Autogenerative Theory of Mind and Language.
• Andrés Gómez-Emilsson: Screens of Consciousness, Neural Annealing, Emergence of Self-Awareness, Spectrum of Possible Minds.
• Addy Cha: Olfactory Languages and Synesthesia, Language Inducing Altered States, How Cybernetics Can Allow Us to Efficiently Communicate with Toddlers and Animals, TBA.
• Follow Andrés here: QRI.org, QualiaComputing.com, X (@algekalipso), Interview on Theories of Everything.
• Follow Professor Hahn here: Hahn.AI, X (@will_hahn), Interview on Theories of Everything, Machine Perception Cognitive Robotics Lab.
• Follow Professor Barenholtz here: Barenholtz.ai, Substack, X (@ebarenholtz), Machine Perception Cognitive Robotics Lab, Interview on Ekkolapto.
• Hosted by Addy from ekkolapto.org. Previous hackathons, salons, podcasts at MIT, UT Austin, FAU.
WHEN 🗓️:
• Thursday July 3 from 4PM EDT to 8:30PM EDT.
SCHEDULE 📝:
TBA!
WHO 👀:
• Students, researchers, professors, and founders passionate about fields of philosophy and logic, computer science and AI, math and physics, engineering, cognitive science and consciousness.
• A technical background is preferred but not required. Even if you think you are not a fit for this event, apply anyways!
PREVIOUS SALONS 📸:
• Past Polymath Salons and discussions are uploaded for you to watch on the Ekkolápto channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ekkolapto3