Beat AI: Become a SLIP Expert - The Human Edge in the AGI Era

At the Paul Vette podcast for peak performers who know 90 percent is not an option. Eureka, I've found it. The highest human potential for the future, the catalyst of your success. And how did I discover this? Well, I started a quest into AI and all the future possibilities of AI, AGI, Super AGI and possibly even transcendent AGI. I won't tire you too much with all those terms, but AI now is simply a language model that bases all words on a logical sequence of words that we use en masse in the world. AGI, which can, the G stands for general, can start thinking in a similar way and unravel patterns and connect them like our brain can. And then you have transcendent AGI, that goes further, that tries to discover new patterns. And precisely there at that crossroads, that's where you're going to beat AI for decades to come anyway. So that's also where your gold lies. It's also very funny, because what I'm doing with this is undermining AI, in the sense that AI has no right to exist there anymore. And let the answer that I've now found not have been findable without me explicitly mentioning it within AI myself. And that's logical of course, because AI doesn't really want to undermine itself either, just like you don't want to either. So that's brilliant of course to immediately discover that there already seems to be a concept in AI. I can't say it appears that I haven't done that research, but it seems to be there that AI doesn't want to undermine itself. So it talks around everything, even if you attribute a kind of divinity to it. And now let me get straight to the point. I read a book from 1979 and the last 2 chapters of that book are about Artificial General Intelligence. Initially about AI, but ultimately also about AGI. So what is your success for the coming period? What is that catalyst? It's called with a very difficult word slipping. It says brilliant, the slipping of the mind. Look, language works, language models too, is the moment when I say to you 'apple', think of words that have to do with apple. And then you might think of a knife to cut it, cinnamon to put on it, because that's tasty. Maybe apple pie. Maybe you can think a bit further and you think, okay, apple, that's a fruit, so I also think of strawberries, I think of those kinds of things. And the moment you think of strawberries, you also think of the color red. And so you can actually make quite logical connections. And that's something that AGI will definitely be able to do. Also because it's fed with all our human language. So everything we think of and what we link to something, AI and AGI will eventually link together too, because that's logical. But then the slipping of the mind, that's brilliant. Because what we can also do is think of a strawberry, and then I think hey, that actually also has the shape of a heart. I immediately think hey, a heart, love, and love, that makes me think of my wife Bianca. That makes me instantly at this moment think of yes, she's coming here to this place shortly with my son Joa and I still need to remember to ask her to bring a package that's at home for hanging the poster. Well, so I'm now thinking of poster, but AGI isn't going to manage for decades to come to understand that I, starting from Apple where we began, am now suddenly thinking of poster. And that's brilliant, because in that slipping of my mind, which I just showed you live, that's where creativity and creative expression lie. And that's precisely something that AGI probably will never even be able to do. And that's cool, because in that same book, I don't have it from that book, that book is called Gödel Escher Bach. It's really cool. Mathematical things, AI things, music things from Bach of course. It's very deep. Gödel developed a theorem in 1931, the incompleteness theorem. What he suggests is that, and that's also correct, logically it's correct, you can't escape it. He says within a closed system like AI is a closed system, you can't prove everything. He also has a Gödel sentence. I am not provable within this system. That always turns out to be correct. So the moment you have a framework, a closed system like AI or even AGI, which is also a closed system, then you can't prove everything within that system. What you then have to do to search for proof of that, how he even developed that sentence, is to go to a meta-perspective. So then you go to a meta-level and then you look from the meta, from a helicopter view, at a system. Then you can probably prove something within that weaker system, that smaller system. That's how he developed that sentence. But what the point is, is that at the meta-level everything doesn't add up either. You can't prove everything. It doesn't mean it's not correct. It also doesn't mean you can't make correct assumptions that align with the truth, but they're not provable. So you can't prove them within that system, you have to go to a level higher. But this automatically means that AGI ultimately can't prove itself either, because something can't be proven within the system. Even an AGI that can examine itself and with a lot of computing power too, it can't prove itself. So you can always say that it's incomplete. And so you can never play out the whole world with AI. So you can never know exactly how the entire universe works. We can probably get much closer to how reality is, but we can never know it, because there's always a new meta-perspective needed to be able to prove the system below it. But that meta-perspective is also incomplete from itself. It's getting a bit deep perhaps, but where I'm going is that AGI will never be human. That's good news. It can probably take over a gigantic amount. When you think about 'Okay, where will we be in 100 years?' I can't quite imagine when it will come, but ultimately you could easily imagine that robots, to call them that, can make the whole world run and we won't have to work anymore in the sense that labor from us is needed, in any way whatsoever, to provide the world with food, houses. Everything you need, that can simply be facilitated by robots in a better way, an energy-efficient way, clean energy even. That's all possible. So then we don't need all that anymore and then we have to find meaning in something else. But if you follow that line of thought, where then lies the strength of a human? In the slipping of the mind. And that's brilliant, because that's where art emerges, that's where our being human emerges, the human spark, the connection with each other. AGI or transcendent AGI will never understand that. Not only because we're still far too far from a robot being able to fully replicate a human brain, but there isn't even just intelligence stored in our brain alone, but in every cell, in every piece of DNA in us, intelligence is also stored. Transcendent can never capture that because it doesn't know the slipping of the mind. So the moment a car drives by here shortly and some music comes out the window and I catch some music from it, it doesn't even have to be that I hear exactly the song that's playing, but I can think of a certain music track because of it. That triggers something from my past. What it triggers from my past triggers something else again. For example, if I hear a song and I think: hey, that's the Vengaboys, then I think of being in high school, I think of some dance party in high school, and then I'm currently thinking of a classmate of mine named Monique. AGI can never reach the slipping of the mind. From that train of thought and from that feeling, our being human emerges. That's where your advantage for success lies, because you can become better at being human thanks to AGI. Because AGI can ultimately more easily take over tasks that aren't pleasant for us to do at all, which some people actually do enjoy. Sorry to find something else, because they're going to take that over and do it better. But you can become better at being human. And you can start with that today by stimulating your creativity more. Go read books, watch films that are just outside your interests or that do interest or intrigue you, but which you think yeah, I'm never going to watch that. But that does something in your brain that makes you better at slipping. Slipping is really truly the gold of humanity and in that way you can also have interesting conversations with other people and connect with each other of course also in terms of feeling and that piece of being human. But that piece is already, I would almost say played out by connecting with yourself and from there connecting more deeply with another. Because the deeper you're connected with yourself, the deeper you can also connect with the other. We all know that, I hope. And the moment there are blockages in that, then you need to come to me and then we're going to remove those blockages and then we're going to see that there are primal strength and primal talents in there that you can use to really allow the slipping of the mind, because that's the whole point. We're all being shaped a bit toward each other, so everyone should say the same things, do the same things, wear the same clothes. We all have to fit within the normal a bit, but then we'll soon be the same as AGI. Then we can just copy that and then we just become empty superficial beings who just don't feel like living anymore. That won't be necessary at all soon, because then the robots will take over everything and they'll think yeah is this it now? What a very nice example from that book is even if AI or AGI becomes better at music production in composition than Bach, then our brain probably can't even understand that. So it's not a deep human experience at all, but it's a logically based new variant of Bach, which might be 10 times better in theory, that doesn't touch you at all because there's no human spark present. And that's the catalyst that's going to bring you enormous success. Getting even better at being human. --- This transcript has been translated from Dutch.