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Brent Smith

Brent Smith

The journey of life, human connections, and engagement. To learn more, always be curious, be happy, and find oneself in the company of good friends, with memories that matter in a turbulent world.

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Room 5000

In 1981, I wrote this short story on a computer gaining sentience. Not one word has been added, deleted, or moved.

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The Fragile Sea Newsletter TFS #03

We discuss AGI and machine sentience, copyright, developments in biotech, space weather, and much more in our third bi-weekly newsletter

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AI Connections 2024: Part 2: Technologies and Taxonomies

In Part 2 of the nine-part series on AI Connections 2024, we build a taxonomy of technologies and describe each in turn

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The Fragile Sea Newsletter TFS #02

We discuss Sam Altman's $7trn request for investment in AI, economic outlooks, and happenings in social media, biotech, robotics, psychology, and philosophy.

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The Fragile Sea Newsletter TFS #01

Economic outlooks, and happenings in AI, social media, biotech, robotics, psychology, and philosophy. A great start to 2024!

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AI Connections 2024: Part 1: Introduction

A nine-part series on AI Connections 2024, to build a terrain map and to pose research questions that will be tracked by The Fragile Sea during the year. Commercial exploitation, and how might we use AI, along with rapid development vectors, and risks, are also discussed.

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Satellite broadcasts from Tierra del Fuego

I worked in London in satellite events management and audio - this is an account of one journey and several broadcasts in the remote wonderland of deepest South America