Justin Lancaster - AI, AGI & Artificial Superintelligence

Dr. Justin Lancaster discusses the evolutionary pathway of ChatGPT & contemporary AI systems towards future Artificial Superintelligence, and provides a detailed explanation of LLM data-modeling, the Q* algorithm, multimodal training, quantum annealing & more. After the firing & rehiring of CEO Sam Altman in 2023, a new program called Q* started making headlines - which gives ChatGPT mathematically-based logical & reasoning abilities. The Guardian wrote that it was "so powerful it alarmed staff", and it's being called a big step towards artificial general intelligence. In this discussion, we explain how layered data-models allow LLM's to generate innovative, creative responses - and we explore how Q*, multimodal training & tools like quantum annealing can help create a robust, self-training AGI model capable of self-bootstrapping and maybe even achieving a Technological Singularity as predicted by Vernor Vinge & Ray Kurzweil. Dr. Justin Lancaster is the inventor of FastScience!, manager of the CrowdCureDisease project, CEO of kwikBio, and President of Climate Research Incorporated. Among his many accomplishments, Justin founded an early SaaS startup in the late 1990's developing real-world systems modeling using virtual reality that invented and patented tech that was a forerunner for Google Earth, worked in a series of five biotech startups at the cutting edge of AI/machine learning and graph-based modeling applied to bioinformatics and systems biology, and developed FastScience! into patent applications for an automated, AI-based, online research system that was awarded 4 US patents from 2012 to 2022. Justin has four decades of multidisciplinary science and startup business development in dynamic, computational modeling and simulation of the real world. His education includes M.S. and Ph.D. are in Oceanography/Marine Chemistry from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, Postdoctoral work at Harvard, a Law Degree from Vermont Law & Graduate School, studies in Artificial Intelligence from MIT, and numerous certifications in AI & Quantum technology from MIT, D-Wave, and other institutions, and has at multiple universities and internationally on climate change science and policy. CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 1:37 - ChatGPT, AGI & Large Language Models 8:38 - Creativity & Intelligence 14:50 - Humans Vs. Machine Complexity 16:36 - Q* and Artificial General Intelligence 24:32 - Self-Training & The Singularity 28:15 - Multimodal Modals w/ Vision, Hearing & Speech 37:07 - Commercial Demand & AI Improvement 38:12 - Quantum Annealing & Optimization 50:44 - Near-Term Predictions LINKS & RESOURCES: Justin Lancaster (Official Homepage & Bios) https://justinlancaster.com/ https://ossfoundation.org/about/justin_lancaster/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinlancaster/ https://kwikbio.godaddysites.com/ OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/23/openai-was-working-on-advanced-model-so-powerful-it-alarmed-staff Tech Showdown: OpenAI's Triumph Over Google's Gemini Exposed https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2024/01/03/tech-showdown-openais-triumph-over-googles-gemini-exposed/?sh=6fc946a06462 Q-Learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning A* Search Algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm Quantum Annealing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing