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We could totally go to Mars, we just need to demand our governments prioritize space travel over expenses like killing brown people. But, since that seems to be impossible, we can support  companies that are doing it on the chance they might get rich . The company in that article, SpaceX, makes rockets for NASA, the military, and other countries. It's owned by the same guy who owns Tesla, Elon Musk... Who recommends everyone read Nick Bostrom. He thought we needed to get off Earth to reduce the risk of extinction, so he made a company to do that; he was worried about climate change, so he made Tesla, with the plan of making the internal combustion engine irrelevant in a few decades; he also made Solar City, to get more people to use solar power. What I'm getting at is, he saw problems in the world, and they scared him, but he did something about it. His plans are working, too, because he is smart and hard-working. I think you all have the potential to impact the world like

That was too cool not to show you. Anyway, today I want to talk about any thoughts you have about any relationships between things we've talked about so far: Where are they "Why I hope the search for ET life finds nothing" existential threats to humanity What is AI? The effects of AI and other technological changes on the human condition Ontology and Epistemology (What is and what can be known) Ethical systems like Utilitarianism I'd like to go more in depth this week on rule-based ethical systems (deontological ethics), then talk about the ethics of human enhancement. MOST STILL TO COME(Answer to the 2010 Edge Question “How is the Internet changing the way you think?]Nick Bostrom The Ethics of Human Engineering PS This company tried to graph out what happens inside neural nets ... the results look a lot like life. It's pretty shocking(ly cool): "Many of the images created by Graphcore, which are technically graphs, are b

What does Deep Learning actually look like? The Deep Learning Gallery - Lots of examples of deep learning in action The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks Deep Dream - Do androids dream of electric sheep? Apparently not - they dream of Admiral Dog! Wavenet - Generating Speech and piano sounds just from example sounds Image Question Answering: A Visual Semantic Embedding Model and a New Dataset Anti-Facial Recognition Masks Code Synaptic ConvNet  - Play with this! It's so cool to see inside a computer brain! The Deep Learning Book  - All of this code and instruction is available for free, online. You can become an expert in this and all you need is a laptop and a place to live and food. What will the future look like? Q&A What will be the coolest areas to apply deep learning and reinforcement learning in the next 5-10 years? What are the top 10 interesting areas for machine learning in the next 5 years? Fiction Accelerand