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Artificial Superintelligence

and Brain-Computer Interfaces

From AI risk to bci/acc

Trent McConaghy

@trentmc0

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AI Superintelligence is coming

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AI Superintelligence is coming

How do we react?

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AI Superintelligence is coming

How do we react?

What do we want, ultimately?

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"Not die" ?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/will_spark/8603571212

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Explore the cosmos?

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Reshape the cosmos!

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Towards reshaping the cosmos...

1: AI → AI superintelligence. AI risk...

2: Humans → Human superintelligence

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Thread 1: AI → AI Superintelligence

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AI: “Can do a task that only a human could previously do”

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AI: “Can do a task at a level far exceeding a human.”

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Market forces are driving AI compute up

20 PFLOPs = "1 person"

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Artifical General Intelligence

(AGI):

“Can do all tasks that only a human could previously do”

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“Can do all tasks at a level

far exceeding a human.”

AI Superintelligence (ASI):

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AI Superintelligence

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Interlude: AI Risk

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AI risk

AI Superintelligence

AI Risk

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Idea: Let go, this is evolution

Idea: "Let go, this is evolution"

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Idea: Let go, this is evolution

Idea: "Let go, this is evolution"

Problem: humanity wants a role in the future 🙋🙋🙋🙋

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Idea: "Put it in a cage. Unplug if problems"

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Idea: "Put it in a cage. Unplug if problems"

It's smart,

so it's decentralized,

so you can't unplug.

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Idea: "fancier cage"

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Problem:

humans are gullible

Idea: "fancier cage"

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Idea: "slow it down then solve it"

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Problem:

no actual brakes

Idea: "slow it down then solve it"

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Idea: "Let everyone have at it, speed it up"

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Idea: "Let everyone have at it, speed it up"

Problem:

doesn't mitigate AI overtaking

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Idea: "Get an AGI to solve it"

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Idea: "Get an AGI to solve it"

Problem:

🤡

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Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"

Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"

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Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"

Idea: "Align the AI via a post-hoc wrapper"

Problem:

endless jailbreaks

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Idea: "Align the AI while growing it"

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Idea: "Align the AI while growing it"

Q: Can we actually align something 1000x smarter than us?

A: Start with 1x.

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Idea: "We need a competitive substrate"

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Idea: "We need a competitive substrate"

This has promise...

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Thread 2: Humans →

Human Superintelligence

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Now: fast typing

via non-invasive BCI

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Now: consumer BCI headphones for focus

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Now: Subtitles on glasses

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Now: Cameras + mics

Smart Glasses

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Now: wearable AR

Quest 3

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Now: consumer eye-tracking

Vision Pro

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"A rapidly emerging area of research is the use of the eye as a window to changes occurring in the brain"

Now: research on eyes for BCI

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sming

= silent messaging

= sending text or voice

by thinking about it

  • Send: eye-tracking / BCI / sub-vocalization
  • Receive: subtitles on glasses

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Internal dialog

Chat with LLM for Q&A, search

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Perfect memory

  • Record via glass cam, then store
  • Retrieve via eye/BCI
  • Project on retina

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Share visual memories

  • Retrieve recording via eye/BCI
  • Send to friend's phone
  • Project visually on glasses/retina

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Mind meld = conversation in pictures

  • Prompt AI to create images via eyes/BCI
  • Send to friend's phone
  • Friend creates image response. Repeat!

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3. Humans → Human superintelligence:

BCI Evolution

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A silicon stack co-brain offers

  • 100x+ more storage
  • 100x+ more compute

(compared to bio-stack brains)

But these are held back by low bio ↔ silicon bandwidth

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Bandwidth↑ Via Implants

Alas, invasive

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Read

& write

Bandwidth↑ Via Optogenetics

Semi-invasive

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Demand will push to go past non-invasive

2. Market forces!

Consumers want more perf:

  • Vs their status quo
  • Vs those with invasive BCI b/c health

1. To fix AI risk!

  • Either western govts will allow it, because risk
  • Or hungry smaller nations will do it first.

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Demand will unlock (semi) invasive for mainstream

→100x+ storage and 100x+ compute

→ 100x+ bandwidth

Performance will grow with each new device generation

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We are all natural-born cyborgs

  • When you ride a bike, it becomes part of you
  • When you type on a keyboard, it becomes part of you
  • When you use BCI, it becomes part of you

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At first, silicon-stack << bio-stack power

(Bottlenecked by bandwidth)

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As bandwidth ↑,

silicon-stack power ↑

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Then, silicon-stack ≅bio-stack power

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Then, silicon-stack > bio-stack power

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Then, silicon-stack >> bio-stack power

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Then, silicon-stack >> bio-stack power

Remember, it's all still you!

We are natural born cyborgs

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Human superintelligence

The market, and AI risk,

will push performance to...

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From bio+silicon stack

To pure silicon stack

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Artificial Superintelligence

and Brain-Computer Interfaces

From AI risk to bci/acc

Conclusion

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AI Superintelligence is coming

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Bring BCI to the masses

With SMs & perfect memory

Market forces & AI Risk

will drive us

to a competitive substrate

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Trent McConaghy

@trentmc0

With human superintelligence,

let's explore the cosmos! And beyond...