54 Future Now - Space News, Dr. Bruce Damer on the Fourth Path of Psychedelics, Greg Panos on wrangling your AIs
Dr. Bruce Damer is a scientist and entrepreneur known for his groundbreaking work in origin of life research and virtual worlds. With expertise spanning astrobiology and computer science, he passionately explores the intersection of technology and the origins of life on Earth and beyond. Now he is focused on what he refers to the Fourth Path of Psychedelics, or the return to more rigorous research into psychedelics and their potential use in creativity, innovation, and problem solving for today’s troubled world.
In the second half of today’s show, Billy Sunshine checks in for a discussion with celebrated VR/AR pioneer Greg Panos on the taming of the AIs, with reference to Google’s Gemini debacle, a problem of serious bias and hallucination on the part of the company’s flagship AI product. Perhaps we need a psychedelic for the AI’s, or are they already tripping too hard and need to be grounded in reality?