Aza Raskin: "AI, The Shape of Language, and Earth's Species"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we meet with cofounder of the Earth Species Project, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, and cohost of the podcast Your Undivided Attention, Aza Raskin.
Raskin gives us a general overview of what artificial intelligence is, how it's about to become more deeply embedded in our lives, and how he and his team plan to use AI as a Rosetta Stone to translate the languages of other species to - hopefully - expand human consciousness, empathy, and awareness of the other beings we share this planet with.
About Aza Raskin:
Aza is the cofounder of Earth Species Project, an open-source collaborative nonprofit dedicated to decoding animal communication. He is also the cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology and is the cohost for the podcast Your Undivided Attention. Trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist, he has taken three companies from founding to acquisition, a co-chairing member of the World Economic Forum's Global AI Counsel, helped found Mozilla Labs, in addition to being named FastCompany's Master of Design, and listed on Forbes and Inc Magazines 30-under-30.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.8 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, |
| 0:14.3 | the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.6 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's |
| 0:23.0 | eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about |
| 0:28.6 | it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:32.9 | Greetings, humans around the world tuning in to this show. |
| 0:37.1 | As frequent listeners know, I believe we live as part of a Greetings, humans around the world tuning in to this show. |
| 0:37.7 | As frequent listeners know, I believe we live as part of a system. |
| 0:43.0 | And we have to understand how the parts and the processes of the system fit together in order |
| 0:48.2 | to understand the roadmap and what to do ahead. |
| 0:52.8 | I understand a lot about ecology, energy, human behavior, but there are quite a few topics |
| 0:59.1 | that I know very little about. |
| 1:02.1 | And there's probably a lot of topics I don't even know that I don't know about. |
| 1:05.6 | But one topic increasingly relevant in our lives is machine intelligence and artificial intelligence, |
| 1:14.5 | AI. |
| 1:15.9 | It does seem that AI and big data are poised to play a much bigger role in our lives. |
| 1:22.8 | With us to unpack this today, we're fortunate to have a pretty special human being and one I consider |
| 1:29.2 | a good friend, Aza Raskin. |
| 1:32.0 | Aza is the son of Jeff Raskin, the developer of the Macintosh computer. |
| 1:37.4 | Aza is the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and also the co-founder of the Earth |
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