Human Energy Podcast
Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific & cosmic story introducing the noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.
We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.
Human Energy Podcast
Hybrid Beings - Olaf Witkowski - N2 Conference 2023
Hybrid Beings
Presented by Olaf Witkowski
N2 Conference 2023
University of California, Berkeley
In this talk, we delve into symbiotic interactions between autonomous forms of intelligence, including humans, animals, artificial beings, and others, regardless of their embodiments or substrates. Grounded in rigorous scientific study of agents, this talk examines the possibilities and limitations of hybrid intelligences, connecting via meaningful communication beyond the boundaries of a single species or type of agent, and across media, spatiotemporal, and organizational scales. Standing on the shoulders of the giant advances of the past and recent present in artificial intelligence, not only equipped with deep learning and large language models, but also with the latest insights from developmental biology, information theory, cognitive psychology, and ethics of AI agents, we want to push on the development of techniques that will allow us to design positive, emergent, mutualistic interactions, paving new, possibly surprising paths toward fostering harmonious hybrid systems, able to amplify the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of agents functioning on their own. This talk is meant as an invitation to discuss and envision and shape a future where humanity and technology seamlessly intertwine for the collective betterment. Through a firm Feynman-like attitude of “What I cannot create, I do not understand”, we would like to push back the frontiers of synthesis and integration, to foster emergent, hybrid forms of intelligence which integrate with each other, by engineering adaptive interfaces that allow for co-creation of values and experiences in the noosphere.
Learn more at https://humanenergy.io