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- Michio Kaku: Big Think Interview
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A conversation with the CUNY theoretical physicist.
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MICHIO KAKU:
Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel. His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, as well as New York University (NYU).
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: What are some futuristic inventions that we’ll see In our lifetime?
Michio Kaku: So you ask a simple question. Invisibility: just decades away we will have something resembling Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak.
Something equally astonishing is shape-shifting. When you see science fiction movies like "Terminator II" and you see the evil robot turn into jelly and then ooze its way through obstacles, you say to yourself "No way, no way can that happen." Believe it or not, we scientists are making huge inroads into that area. It’s called programmable matter. Matter itself that can rearrange itself, change color, change shape, change conductivity by pushing a button. And here is how it works: Why is it that certain substances can turn liquid and ooze its way across the room like in the movie "Terminator II?" It’s because of atoms. Atoms can slide over atoms, rearrange themselves, but what happens if atoms are replaced by chips, chips that are so small they’re smaller than the head of a pin. And you can change their electric charge. By changing the electric charge they bind and reform in different ways and they’re intelligent because each dot is a computer chip perhaps as powerful as a PC. These are called catoms and who is pushing this technology? The Intel Corporation, the makers of the famous Pentium chip that drives your laptop. The same company is now investigating the next several steps in the future, the ability to have programmable matter.
Now think about it. It means that if I have a clump of clay made of thousands of millions of little dots I push a button then the charges rearrange themselves to form a statue, a car, whatever you want. This means that I can push another button and this clay turns into a house or I push another button and a whole city, a whole city rises out of the desert. Sounds like science fiction, but the basic steps are being done today. And in fact, with a television crew I went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and photographed it. Of course these catoms are quite large. They’re about the size of a head of a pin, but it’s only a matter of time before these catoms become so microscopic and so powerful that they’ll be able to rearrange just like what you see in "Terminator II," just like what you see in the "Transformers," just like what you see in X-men comics.
Question: Do you believe in the coming singularity?
Michio Kaku: There was a conference out of Sylmar that made headlines around the world. The brightest minds of artificial intelligence converged onto Sylmar and a reporter asked them a question" "When will this fabled singularity take place? When will the machines take over? When will machines become smarter than us?"
Well the answer was quite interesting. Among the top people assembled in one place the answers were anything from 20 years in the future to 1,000 years in the future-with some AI experts saying never. Some people put it at 2029. They even give you an exact date. 2029, that’s going to be the moment of truth that one day a robot will wake up, wake up in the laboratory, look around and say, “I am aware.” “I’m just as smart as you.” “In fact, I could be even smarter if I put a few more chips in my brain.”
Other people say: "Not so fast, not so fast because Moore’s law is going to break down." The reason why many people are so confident about this prediction of the so called singularity is because of Moore’s law that computer power doubles every 18 months and it’s a curve that has held sway for 50 years. If you go back 100 years back to the time of mechanical hand-crank computers...
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Think about it
Yaa definately think about it
After so many years, it still amazes me how Michio Kaku can explain complicated things in a very simple way... I seriously think that some so called "professors" out there should learn something from this guy!
This type of videos is timeless, I have so much respect for Dr.Michio Kaku these days
love this man
i never get tired listening to his topics...
Micho Kaku , I love the way you think!
Big Think! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge on these topics and matters…Thank you so much! Makes me think!
you can just see how happy he is when he talks about this stuff
its great.
if everyone was like this when they talk about their work or life, the world would be much different
I love the look on his face when he says "Theocracy" at 11:30
are you still active?
hahah yes
interesting watching this video and hearing him talk about shapeshifting when i was thinking of a very similar thing the past year or so and recently put the idea to paper this past month.. i wish i had friends like him so i could have more meaningful conversations about science and the future
God, I love this man. Such a genius.
makes me want to pick up a book!!!
I like your how you think! More videos like this on tv and in the schools !!!
I hope not. He's a nonsense machine.
Thank you
about nano technology: if the CPUs are that small, how do you power them? since battery power is so limited.
im glad to say that my Dad a Chemist lecturer at ACS ( American Chemical society) Got to meet Michio kaku
@TheLeadStriker opposite effect for me, he gets me pumped up to play lol
What i love about this guy is how he can relate science with life itself and with the general world. Amazing. he isnt one of those guys who just talks about science,he explains the reason behind it.
Awesome.
I think I've heard Michio talk about the 3 types of civilizations about 10 times now. And I don't get tired of it
As light has motion in all 3dimension
Can energy propagate in 4dimension
I subscribed just for Michio Kaku!
Just so you know Mr. Kaku you are my roll model, I am planning on getting a PhD in physics because of you.
@rngouveia Yeah but kaku's aknowledging the exponential rate of technological progress, he's just more sceptical about whether it will continue to transcend paradigms as it has . And about the economic thing kurzweil also acknowledges the economies role as a catalyst for technological progress . what do you think kurzweil's reply to kaku's thoughts on the singularity would be? i'd love to see them discuss/debate it .
i love this channel
"Good news, everyone!" - Michio Kaku
what does he mean in 8:29 by "sekarian" (definitely spelled wrong, going by sound and pronunciation to spell) when he says" sekerian fundamentalist ideas"...??
That was very interesting
after raging playing video games this guy calms me down
Until 2:32 is Dr. Michio talking about the Hoi-Poi Capsules from Capsule Corporation???
1:40 He is describing the black magnet things the boy in Big Hero 6 invents :D
It's alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist. Equivalent Exchange. Rearranging matter into different shapes. And stuff.
@Thepockets88 Yes, simply yes.
Well, for the chips that can shapeshift and transform in case of a robot gaining awareness, it is impossible unless for that reason and motive.
@HitachiHenemaru really your going to correct me... wow
@picknicktooclick yes, that what it means to be a futurist, but of course the type 0,1 etc stuff is something that is well established but obviously we don't know when itll happen
I love listening to this guy.
Wish i was smart enough to become a scientist
Actually invisibility can work by warping light around you rather than through you.
(i.e black holes warp/bend light around them)
But yes.. you would not be able to see anything.
GENIUS.
thanks. anyway this whole thing reminds me of Ghost in the Shell. Its an anime. i don't know if you watch it. But its the same concept.
I like how he isn't afraid to say, "I don't know."
This man can make anything interesting.
and id love to hear any and all answers to my question!
@Sebe1337 I don't think so, he's still talking about monetary economies and initiation rites. If you'd like to see how we could actually reach type 1, check out Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project. Michio Kaku seems to be great with physics, not so much with human behavior and resource based economies.
I'm speechless !
I like how he laughs at 6:24
i think he is reading from a note on the ground. watch his eyes they keep shifting from the camera to the floor on the right hand side.? what do u think?
love this guy
Yeah, he mentions that in one of the other videos.
@Damon Lam But that's the thing, isn't it? I love hearing Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Edith Piaf, etc... And, although it's not a very popular music type among youth societies, it's a respected type of music. Just like you can hear everything from the London Orchestra to Muse, and no one will find it uniquely peculiar.
that last part there "when we go into out-a-space" he (Michio Kaku) was assuming we will make it lolz. I hope we do by the way.
@bigthink Can you pls ask Michio Kaku this question : What if there was only one leader, and everyone one was mixed so we could all work together. Would life in general be better. Countries would share ideas and inventions and stuff without thinking no they are our rival or our enemy?
his face when he said teocracy is priceless :P
The odds are that will be the case... But, we have a slim chance and we must try our best...
SUPER
I have never been deranged by the prospect of death but when i hear this man talk about possible events of the future, i wish i could live for a few centuries.
I can listen to him talk all day... As a matter of fact that's exactly what I'm doing.
There is one thing I don't really get about the first part: if you make chips as small as atoms, where are they made of? Quarks? Electrons?
Gonna go to the barber now and ask for a Michio Kaku, that silver color reflects knowledge
@Jayjon81 Train yourself with great diligence and ask questions till you learn, and you will be. Kaku had an inborn intelligence sure, but he had to work his ass off getting where he is now. Hope you do it too, never too late.
@koshaku000
Agreed, this guy is really provocative. I couldn't live without the insightful 'big think' of people like Michio.
It will be if we all keep that mind set
Michio Kaku you are awsome
This guy is awesome
Also the culture you described is similar to the Overlords from Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. In said book, the aliens called the Overlords are a purely scientific culture where every machine they possess has a purpose behind it, such as a computer which is just a calculator and nothing more. Although I may be wrong, but I'm sort of sensing a civilisation like Plato's Republic were students have their jobs chosen for them and the students can't choose what profession of they desire.
I'm beginning to fear the Terminator movies will become a reality.
and even once ive heard him once mention a type 4 and +
just opened a beer, and realized the fizz is a lot of bubbles and they keep popping... *1 minute later* still popping
SEMINAR! seminar not sinemar. (unless he is talking about a city or organization which i don't know the name)
this makes me think about dragonball, Bulma and it's magic capsul
Yes, maybe... perhaps we would need firewalls or something... It is hard to imagine. There was recently a film made about Ray Kurzweil and his predictions for the future, called Transcendent Man. If you google it and go to it's site, you can watch it free if you are in the USA (or can persuade your computer it is there..). There is a trailer on UA-cam as well. His best known book is called The Singularity is Near.
molto bene, questo va di maraviglia*****
@F35Pilots It is already being develop. The problem with Carbon chips is, it needs to be Diamond/crystal. Diamond is perfect as a computer chip since its doesn't transfer much heat. A silicon stops working at 150 C, Diamond is about 1000 C. Did you know that the latest chip from Intel; Ivy Bridge was developt in 2003/2004? That's kinda how long a chip has to go from development to production. So since 2004-2012, there's a chip there somewhere that brings us closer to ditching Silicon.
DARPA has been working on this since 2004. I have only heard about catoms here though.
I wish I heard rock`n roll everywhere I go too.
At first I thought it was long suspense after he said "shape-shifting", turns out it was buffering.
"Today, extensive research and experiments with claytronics are being conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a team of researchers which consists of Professors Todd C. Mowry, Seth Goldstein, Ph. D. candidates, graduate and undergraduate students, and researchers from Intel Labs Pittsburgh.[5]" Listed on the "Claytronics - Wikipedia" site are multiple university sources at the bottom. Hope it helps.
@penguin4four But you are right. You can't make things out of subatomic particles. I think a catom would be much bigger than a single molecule, but still microscopic.
Same here!
Am I the only one who'd love to see this guy and Jacque Fresco in a room debating, changing ideas and what not. THAT would be awesome to see.
Education and Socialisation is the only way forward
@penguin4four Atoms are made of hadrons, hadrons are made of quarks, quarks are made of (theoretically) energy.
Michio is the man!
0:00 What are some futuristic inventions that we'll see in out lifetime?
02:33 Do you believe in the coming singularity?
06:46 What is the likelihood that mankind will destroy itself?
continuation: renderd light transformed into an image by are brain. and also is why i believe no alien lifeforms would really find us cuz for all we know the planets were currently seeing light in the sky in real time may no longer exist but the light traveling is so old we just now see it. so aliens from distant galaxy's would technically be seeing are planet as nothing more then a rocky stone or like it was in the early stages. and i know i could be wrong on this thought but i felt likesharein
sounds like a good solution. did he mention any consequences to doing so?
thought exactly the same. it will be too dangerous to create a computer who can develop his own ideas and can physically accomplish his thoughts. you never know ehere it ends.
it means that say you speak Japanese, Urdu, Arabic, or like Spanish as your first language, the second language that you will mostly learn is English. So the number 1 second language that people will learn is English. does that make more sense?
I think that "Terminator" is his fav movie lol
@Likwidify indeed, i totally agree, they want to cling to power
I can see strong AI arriving by the end of the 21st century. Even if computing slows down and we assume a VERY conservative estimate, like say doubling only every 5 years, that would still offer inconceivable amounts of computing by the end of the century, many thousands of times what we have now. Artificial neural networks used with quantum computing will "do the trick", IMO.
I have no where Idea where your going to hear rock'n'roll, butI haven't heard much lately...
This man is SIMPLY the best.
My thoughts exactly. GITS in my opinion have been more clever in their far-future predictions than any other film. They even had groups of conservatives who don't agree with the fact the majority of people are cyborgs. Absolutely mindblowing concept
type 2 civilization like the one in independence day ... so in the movie a type 0 like us flying around in our gas powered f16 totally repelled a type 2 interstellar civilization, i know its just a movie but still its still highly implausible ....
if people do that individualy the happiness doesnt go away, with the world beeing different, and you see how to make the rest happy :))
2:15
confirmed!!!
intel can't even make it t0 10nm HAHAHAHA
Thanks for that! (Im 12)
I can't believe he said hell. I never expected that. At all.
perhaps most civilizations do not move forward as they see no reason to, like in the middle ages there wasn't any thoughts of the up and coming technology but once the industrial revolution emerged that changed.
@Jose41432 I agree