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Jul 2023
36m 13s

Computable AGI

Kyle Polich
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On today's show, we are joined by Michael Timothy Bennett, a Ph.D. student at the Australian National University. Michael's research is centered around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), specifically the mathematical formalism of AGIs. He joins us to discuss findings from his study, Computable Artificial General Intelligence.

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