Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #1

as part of MIT course six as $0.99 artificial general intelligence I've gotten the chance to sit down with max tegmark he is a professor here at MIT is a physicist spent a large part of his career studying the mysteries of our cosmological universe but he's also studied and delved into the beneficial

possibilities and the existential risks of artificial intelligence amongst many other things he's the co-founder of the future of life Institute author of two books both of which I highly recommend first our Mathematica universe second is life 3.0 he's truly an out-of-the-box thinker and fun

personality so I really enjoyed talking to him if you would like to see more of these videos in the future please subscribe and also click the little bell icon to make sure you don't miss any videos also Twitter linked in AGI that I do if you want to watch other lectures or conversations like this one

better yet go read Max's book life 3.0 chapter 7 on goals is my favorite it's really where philosophy and engineer and come together and it opens with a quote by dusty s key the mystery of human existence lies not and just stayin alive but in finding something to live for lastly I believe that every failure

rewards us with an opportunity to learn in that sense I've been very fortunate to fail in so many new and exciting ways and this conversation was no different I've learned about something called radio frequency interference or RFI look it up apparently music and conversations from

local radio stations can bleed into the audio that you're recording in such a way that almost completely ruins that audio it's an exceptionally difficult sound source to remove so I've gotten the opportunity to learn how to avoid RFI in the future during recording sessions of also gotten the opportunity

to learn how to use Adobe Audition and isotope rx6 to do some noise some audio repair of course this is exceptionally difficult noise to remove I am an engineer I'm not an audio engineer neither is anybody else in our group but we did our best nevertheless I thank you for your patience and I hope you're still able to

enjoy this conversation do you think there's intelligent life out there in the universe let's open up with an easy question I have a lien minority of you here actually when I give public lectures Alfred asked for show of hands who thinks there's intelligent life out there somewhere else and almost everyone

put their hands up and when I ask why they'll be like oh there's so many galaxies out there there's gonna be but I'm a numbers nerd right so when you look more carefully at it it's not so clear at all if we when we talk about our universe first of all we don't mean all of space did we actually mean I

don't you can throw me in the universe if she wants behind you there it's we simply mean the spherical region of space from which light has a time to reach us so far during the fourteen point eight billion year 13.8 billion years since our Big Bang there's more space here but this is what we call a

universe because that's all we have access to mm-hmm so is there intelligent life here that's gotten to the point of building telescopes and computers my guess is no actually no the probability of it happening on any given planet is some number we don't know what it is and what we do know is that the number can't

be super-high because there's over a billion earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone many of which are billions of years older than Earth and aside from some UFO believers in other reason is much evidence that any super 20 civilization has come here at all and so that's the famous Fermi paradox right