AGI Risks & WBE Opportunities @ WBE Workshop 2023

Robert McIntyre discusses the potential of uploading a human brain within five years. He emphasizes the significance of Transformer models in revolutionizing our understanding of language and suggests that they have the capability to comprehend the structural language of the brain. McIntyre proposes that scanning the nanoanatomy of the brain, including every synapse, is feasible and can be accomplished within a year at a cost of less than $100 million. He highlights the importance of conducting experiments on lower-order brains before attempting on higher-order brains and emphasizes the need for a fully differentiable pipeline to facilitate learning and refine the methodology. McIntyre also addresses the challenge of accounting for fine-grained dynamic processes and plasticity in brain processes. He suggests the development of infinite context window types of Transformers to capture these complexities. Additionally, he discusses the potential distinction between memories pre-upload and post-upload in whole brain emulation (WBE).