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Hello listerners! Welcome to another episode of the EnterVR podcast. On todays show I speak with Zoe and Michael. They are graduate robotics researchers at UC Berkeley and they are also developing a platform for you to learn and teach math using virtual reality. \n\nHere is a preview of some of the things discussed.\n\n\n30: Intro. Making a more intimate connection with math through VR.\n\n3:00 What are the fundamental advantages of a math literate society?\n\n5:50 What is Math VR? How will it look? Travelling to a place where math resides.\n\n8:30 How do you know what to visualize and how to visualize it? Making 3D math accesible in VR.\n\n12:20 How to convey the utility of math in virtual reality to the average user.\n\n14:10 Why do you need linear algebra in your life?\n\n16:20 "I know math, and I feel free as fuck".\n\n20:00 "What can't you do with math?" AR and Wearable will make turn our world into math.\n\n24:00 How far along in development is MathVR. Using Leapmotion to control the interface.\n\n30:50 Speaking about the Dimensions of Interstellar. SPOILER ALERT.\n\n37:00 What is the distribution model? Is the team trying to make money with this project?\n\n39:30 How to contribute to the MathVR project?\n\n41:20 Giving people the tools so that they can create their own vr math lessons.\n\n42:00 Are we genetically encoded to love math? Are some of us doomed to never 'get' math?\n\n50:22 Making math social and doing math together with friends in VR. Is Math meant to be a lonely journey?\n\n53:00 Mathcraft. Minecraft for math. \n\n59:00 Getting people addicted to getting smart. \n\n1:02:00 Is Math something that you create or is it something we discover.\n\n1:06:00 What are the implications of conclusively resolving whether math is created or discovered.\n\n1:08:00 Could math teach people how to be better humans?\n\n1:10:00 Could enabling the democratization of math bring about the next Hitler?\n\n1:14:00 What does Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk know about that you don't about AI?\n\n1:15:00 How is a deep learning influencing the progress of AI?\n\n1:18:30 Doing Math on drugs? Can we create drugs that can make us smarter in math?\n\n1:25:00 "The Matrix is coming, learn math".\n\n1:27:00 When and how will we know when AI is here?\n\n1:29:00 What happens when you mix quantum computers and AI algorithyms?\n\n1:32:00 Why build AI? What's the point?\n\n1:35:00 What is sentience?\n\n1:38:00 Do you create sentience from a model of the human brain or do you start from scratch?\n\n1:42:00 The geopolitical state of AI. Is there Manhattan project for AI somewhere underneath the desert?\n\n1:45:00 Is the military involved in the push to create better AI? How far along are they?\n\n1:48:00 What is the singularity after all? The MIRI institute.\n\n1:51:00 Is humanity ready for AI? What are the legal ramifications of AI?\n\n1:55:00 How do you deal with the implications that something might be smarter than humans? Creating a human based strong AI.\n\n1:59:00 Are we really just the sex organs of the machine?\n\n2:02:00 Experimenting with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.\n\n2:04:00 What will virtual reality look like 20 years from today?\n\n2:06:00 How can we create the metaverse from within the metaverse.\n\n2:08:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch.\n\n\nThanks again to Zoe and Michael for being true scholars /lady and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening.\n\n\nKeep in touch with the links below. \n(check back soon, this list will have better links in the future)\n\n\nhttps://twitter.com/ZoeMcCarthy2