The following is a conversation with Michio Kaku.

He's a theoretical physicist, futurist, and professor at the City College of New York.

He's the author of many fascinating books that explore the nature of our reality and

the future of our civilization.

They include Einstein's Cosmos, Physics of the Impossible, Future of the Mind, Parallel

Worlds, and his latest, the Future of Humanity, terraforming Mars into stellar travel, immortality,

and our destiny beyond Earth.

I think it's beautiful and important when a scientific mind can fearlessly explore

through conversation subjects just outside of our understanding.

That to me is where artificial intelligence is today, just outside of our understanding.

A place we have to reach for if we're to uncover the mysteries of the human mind and

build human level and superhuman level AI systems that transform our world for the

better.

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And now, here's my conversation with Michio Kaku.

You've mentioned that we just might make contact with aliens, or at least hear from them,

within this century.

Can you elaborate on your intuition behind that optimism?

Well, this is pure speculation, of course.

Of course.

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