In a podcast, Roy Peer and Steven W Sorensen discuss the potential of AI-enabled simulation as a learning tool. They explore how AI simulations could be used to provide scenario-driven education that would be difficult to replicate otherwise, and its potential in fields such as asteroid mining. The speakers also discuss the potential risks of AI, including the possibility of a superintelligent zombie AI that lacks consciousness and the ability to appreciate beauty, and the risks of AI being controlled by organizations or governments that may have their own motivations and agendas. They also discuss the potential disruption of the publishing industry through the use of technology, with Peer suggesting that anyone can create their own book on any subject with access to databases of current knowledge. Sorensen raises the possibility that some individuals may still prefer human-written content and may choose to only purchase such content, creating a potential resistance to the technological disruption of the publishing industry. The podcast highlights the potential of AI simulations as a learning tool while also exploring the potential risks and challenges associated with AI.

In this Episode:
[02:08] AI-enabled Simulation
[16:19] AI as a Tool
[27:34] Using Technology for the Environment
[32:54] Today’s AI
[34:55] ChatGPT and Inclusivity

Bios
Roy Peer is an architect turned entrepreneur. After working for award-winning architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in New York City, he went on to start a virtual reality company, which later sold to a notable Hollywood director in 2018. Peer is the founder of PeerBasics, a data-driven products company that analyzes e-commerce sales data to drive its product launch decisions in multiple categories with multiple factory partners in Asia. Peer is the author of Simulation Arcade, a sci-fi novel that paints a possible future world when AI and brain chips are commonplace and details the way humanity meets its AI cocoon moment, and how to stop it.

Steven W Sorensen is the director, corporate finance at droppGroup / droppLabs, an AI / ML web3 video & mixed reality shopatainment marketplace, co-founder of Fotin Media and a board director of RocketStar, a small satellite launch company. Steven calls NYC home, lived in China for 7 years, and has an MA and M.Phil in English from The University of Hong Kong. He likes jazz piano and good whiskey.

Quotes:
Simulations Through AI
[06:41]
If you can bring that new expertise or education, you will likely that the place you're spending your time, which is limited, will foster that same kind of ethos towards whatever problem you're going after.
[13:52]
We always need to be careful of asking what motivates an AI. We need to be careful that we don't ascribe to it.
AI as a Tool
[16:48]
AI becomes a tool that is then a reflection of the people running it and the way that they want to drive it.
The Environment and Technology
[28:52]
There are a few different ways to make the Earth more habitable, and one that we're going for on a societal level is how we reduce our output and things of that nature.
Inclusivity and ChatGPT
[38:18]
There's something about the human way that people tell stories and talk about ideas; you can't replicate that with AI.

Mentions:
Purchase: Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598

Referenced site: OpenAI https://open.ai/ ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/
Keywords: #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Entertainment #Games #EvolutionOfLife #ChatGPT #PLM

Whiskey: Monkey Shoulder Batch 27 https://www.monkeyshoulder.com/en-us

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Other Projects:
Buy Simulation Arcade in Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QF3YPV4
Simulation Arcade Pre-Release NFT (comes with author-signed copy)
https://opensea.io/collection/author-release
RocketStar - Aerospike Engines & Small Satellite Launch Co.
https://rocketstar.nyc/
Fotin Media https://fotinmedia.com/
droppLabs.io https://dropplabs.io/