Dr. Ahmed Bouzid of Witlingo interviews Zoltan Istvan, founder of The Transhumanist Party  who believes transhumanism will grow into a mainstream social movement in the next decade. Formerly a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, Zoltan currently appears frequently on television and video channels discussing futurist topics. He is the author of several books and the main subject of the documentary, Immortality or Bust.

For more on Mr. Istvan, please check out the following links:

• Website: http://www.zoltanistvan.com/
• Books: Zoltan's books 
• Documentary: Immortality of Bust
• Wikipedia Entry: Zoltan Istvan
• Twitter: @zoltan_istvan
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltan-istvan-78aa2964/

Dr. Ahmed Bouzid of Witlingo interviews Zoltan Istvan, founder of The Transhumanist Party  who believes transhumanism will grow into a mainstream social movement in the next decade. Formerly a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, Zoltan currently appears frequently on television and video channels discussing futurist topics. He is the author of several books and the main subject of the documentary, Immortality or Bust.

For more on Mr. Istvan, please check out the following links:

• Website: http://www.zoltanistvan.com/
• Books: Zoltan's books 
• Documentary: Immortality of Bust
• Wikipedia Entry: Zoltan Istvan
• Twitter: @zoltan_istvan
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltan-istvan-78aa2964/

hmed Bouzid of Witlingo interviews brothers Ben and Sam Martin, two philosophy graduates who are innovating in the Natural Language Processing and AI in general by building a system that is based neither on the traditional rules-based strategy, nor on the newly data-heavy methodology, but rather focuses on leveraging concepts and methods inspired by Edumund Husserl's work in phenomenology to create a new unsupervised machine learning technique called Random Contrast Learning (RCL).  A fascinating conversation and certainly a great example of how those steeped in the humanities can bring something news to the AI Table.

In Part One, Ben Martin lays out the foundation to how one can build an AI without having to rely on gobs and gobs of data.

In Part Two, Sam Martin does a deep dive into how they have leveraged insights from phenomenology to build an actual real life AI system.

Websites to check out: 

• https://eidetic.notion.site/eidetic/Eidetic-Ventures-59cd7f26530f41e8a5a069ff22c90a57
• https://lumina-research.com/
  

Worth reading:  Press release announcing Random Contrast Learning (RCL)