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cool right so K my name is Neeve I am
from foresight Institute I'm chief of
innovation there uh and I care a lot
about whole brain emulation so we are a
nonprofit in San Francisco we're a
501c3 uh and we were co-founded by Eric
Drexler uh who's the god father of
nanotechnology and Christine peton who
coined the term open source uh we're 40
years old we're currently an allw woman
team uh and we're looking to accelerate
whole brain emulation so we have five
key Focus areas nanotech neurotech
biotech space Tech and computation with
an overarching track called existential
hope in which we hope to build out
flourishing Futures as chief of
innovation and strategy I oversee the
fellowships the prizes and the grants
and I also build Out Future programs to
of which we will be discussing here
today one is a lowii whole brain
emulation Mouse brain prize which we'll
be launching next year as well as our
whole brain emulation fast GRS and grand
prize uh because we are looking to
accelerate this field dramatically uh so
what is whole brain emulation you've
heard about it from Juan but essentially
it's the uploading of the brain onto the
platform why do we want to do this
because with the you know short
timelines we think that this is a really
great way that we might be able to
coordinate and cooperate uh rather than
just yeah evolving essentially uh with
AIS which is what we want to do uh we
also know that neurotech is super cool
uh and that it's going to help us with
modern day science uh and Medicine
cognitive enhancement space Tech who
doesn't want to jump in a spaceship
right now and travel 2 million light
years away I do I think it's kind of sad
that I'm limited to my own physical
being right now uh and I think also that
that uh whole brain emulation is
possibly going to help us uh with better
understanding Consciousness uh obviously
just like whole brain emulation has
never been done before the human brain
has never been mapped before
Consciousness itself has also never
really been defined uh properly so we've
got a lot to cover and this is why it
really is the New Frontier uh so I
joined foresight two years ago one of
the first projects that I really built
out was our first whole brain emulation
Workshop this here was a pretty big deal
uh because it was the very first in the
world and what we did is we brought
together the original authors of uh the
road map and asked them alongside AI
alignment researchers and
neuroscientists like why is this
stagnated the report was written 20
years ago what's happened uh is this
still relevant and what bottlenecks do
we need to overcome the biggest thing
for them was money uh and it was also
because money is really hard to get when
there's a lot of stigma involved with
whole brain emulation it's kind of seen
as a little bit weird a little a little
bit icky even though as we've just
listed there's a lot of benefits to
actually exploring this and so that's
what I can do and that's what I how I
can help them as you can see here uh
it's it's blowing up at foresight our
community is like three times bigger
than it has been and just keeps growing
we actually have to reject a bunch of
people which is pretty sad to do from a
workshop we are already giving out with
our AI safety grants um money to help
people that are working um in our
neurotech for a so a safer AI with
neurotech these are some of our Gres I
don't know if you haven't read yet but
Mark posted on Les wrong it's very very
good so please take the time to read it
and this is caln's first whole brain
emulation wet lab uh for Mouse brains
pretty big deal because it's the very
first in Europe and we help fund that
with that so we are doing all that we
can to progress things and we're
building out as we go uh why is our
community worth somewhat supporting
because they're pretty cool and they're
pretty good at what they do and they're
all radical Moon shot uh so we've now
had two Nobel Prize winners come out of
our fireman prizes uh as you can see
we've got sir Fraser St out here he
submitted an essay the exact same essay
nine years later W went on to win a
Nobel Prize and then this year we also
had Nick Baker uh win a Nobel Prize with
the same work that he submitted 20 years
earlier so a little bit more of a long
game there but we're with him all the
way uh and as you might see Jean Hub
who's a pretty big deal in longevity the
amaranth Foundation named his work uh
one of the cornerstones and it's about
essentially replacement therapies for
aging brain tissue uh so we're all on
the CP there uh great fellows uh
including some of our core Community I
see Michael Andre's in the audience he's
working on hi-fi approaches to Mouse
brains at the moment he's very good at
Hardware so you know chat to him if
you're interested please do I've got
some incredible fellows this guy here
Akash is working in India using
wearables uh to better understand scent
which is pretty unmapped at the moment
uh but also these bcis are directly uh
capturing EEG data uh and training AI so
that we have better diagnostic tooling
uh for cancer uh which is pretty cool uh
sna Norman is uh working on ultrasound
for bcis with his technology and this
his frro not only has he mapped uh the
human brain as best as it has been yet
with ultrasound he's also managed to
turn uh ultrasound which is normally
like the size of a fridge uh into a
teeny tiny chip which is this size and
two weeks ago I stood in my living room
with this chip and found my own heart
valve beating on my own TV screen with
it which is pretty huge I mean this is
kind of what happens when you start
exploring things because you start
seeing how Innovation can just like fly
and that's pretty great for Humanity uh
so there are a lot of enabling
Technologies already pushing toward W
whole brain emulation if you haven't
seen yet we've just mapped the uh fruit
fly brain for the first time that's
138,000 neurons which is a pretty big
deal uh you should watch the video on
science if you haven't already so that's
why we think it's possible we are
launching next year a mouse brain lowii
emulation prize uh that will be a
million dollars a that incentivizes
researchers to start working in this
field uh it also just yeah it just helps
progress things all together we think uh
the timeline for this to be one is 2 to
three years but actually uh simply
through you know like positive
competition uh this might be one sooner
than that which would be even greater
because when we're looking at shortening
uh timelines we need to do all that we
can to find progress and so that's
what's happening there uh we are hoping
to launch a whole brain emulation fast
grants and grand prize so similar to
metaculus Grants and the co fast grants
we know that we can stimulate an
industry this way we can help people
with their pre R&D proof so that they
can then go to the VCS with the proof
and actually get the money to build it
out but we need a little bit help first
and so that's where we're hoping to lean
in and be able to actually create space
for this uh and obviously like $20
million is like the minimum uh that
we're working with right now uh if we
can grow that further then we can
obviously like help more people and
accelerate this even further so that's
like a big deal for us also a $20
million prize uh for whole brain
emulation of a human brain is definitely
going to get people up in atam uh so
that's what we think so come chat to me
cuz I know that we're pretty short on
time sorry if I went a little bit long
uh if you'd like to know more about what
we're doing and also want to get
involved with whole brain emulation
there are a lot of risks but we do want
to do it the right way and we think we
have the community and the means to to
be that uh yeah thank you
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