AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry's most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI's impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.
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AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry's most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI's impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.
Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET: What AGI Means Now, Open Source AI, and Compute Constraints
AI Inside
1 hour 4 minutes
3 weeks ago
Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET: What AGI Means Now, Open Source AI, and Compute Constraints
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Ben Goertzel, founder and CEO of SingularityNET, joins us to argue for an open path to AGI. We unpack what “open source” should include beyond code, how access to training data, pipelines, and compute shapes who can actually participate, and why “open weights” can still fall short. We also ask who needs convincing, what incentives could move the market, and how decentralized infrastructure fits into his vision for building advanced AI outside a handful of mega labs.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start
2:13 - How the definition of AGI has shifted over time, and why the term has become distorted
7:58 - The “thousand narrow AIs” future, and who builds the next specialized system
12:40 - Revisiting Goertzel’s past AGI timeline predictions, what changed by late 2025, and is 2029 still feasible for AGI?
18:42 - Whether today’s AI investment is flowing to the right bets (LLMs vs world models and beyond)
25:43 - Why Goertzel argues LLMs cannot reach AGI, and what evidence could change his mind
31:44 - What it would take to build a truly open-source path to AGI
37:18 - Open weights vs real openness: Goertzel’s take on what’s missing from current releases
43:56 - Who needs to be convinced for open AI to succeed, and how that persuasion happens
50:20 - Advice for college students preparing for an AI-shaped career landscape
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AI Inside
AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry's most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI's impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.
