Dr. David Yang, founder of Newo.ai and physicist by training, shares his philosophical view on whether consciousness exists along a continuous spectrum with host Christian Marquez.
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Yang: Quantum computing and large models will achieve indistinguishable consciousness
“I truly believe that specifically the quantum computing based processors and big, large models. Will be indistinguishably conscious.”
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Yang: Global frontline AI employee adoption will reach at least 300 million
“Overall we expect that on this planet Earth, we will have at least three hundred million non biological employees AI employees, AI receptionists basically almost every single business in the world which is big enough to have a website or big enough to have a b…”
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Yang: Businesses lose 20% to 40% of revenue from unhandled inbound leads
“You are losing 20, 40% of your revenue right now.”
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Yang: AI agents will cooperate with humans rather than replace them
“We understand AI agents will work actually along with humans. It will be a real cooperation which is happening actually already now. Human first, AI second, or AI first, human second, but it, in 99% of our cases, it's a cooperation.”
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Yang: Consciousness requires sensory embodiment and resonance, not just a brain
“Now I understand completely clearly that consciousness is actually a product not on the of the brain, but also of our all senses, and sensors, and basically brain itself doesn't produce consciousness. Consciousness is a whole, you know, in and out resonance mo…”
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Yang: Businesses lose 40% of marketing spend from slow inbound response
“Every single business, small, large, medium, has this fundamental problem that business cannot react on inbound lead inquiries immediately, and as a result, 40% of our market investment is gone.”