961: Distributed Artificial Superintelligence, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey

27 Jan 2026 · 1 h 9 min · 25 chapters

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In short

Distributed artificial superintelligence (DASI) via multi-agent “cognitive evolution” in machines. The episode argues that today’s AI agents are powerful but isolated; progress requires a “cognitive fabric” enabling shared intent, shared knowledge, and shared innovation across heterogeneous agents and humans.

Guest backgrounds

Dr. Vijoy Pandey, head of Cisco’s incubation engine OutShift. OutShift works on horizon-2/horizon-3 problems including artificial superintelligence and quantum networking.

Key claims

ASI should be defined by economic viability (agents autonomously perform human-level work without humans) and technical novelty (objective-driven systems invent beyond training data). DASI needs semantic protocols for meaningful communication (not just connectivity), a cognitive memory fabric for persistent shared knowledge with privacy controls, and “cognitive engines” that accelerate work while enforcing guardrails.

Notable examples

A two-agent Cisco/OutShift network design case—one agent configures/validates networks; another ensures compliance/security/budget/time—requires shared intent and semantic grounding. Drug discovery pipeline: LLM planning, protein-folding-style models, compliance/manufacturability checks, robotic wet-lab experiments, coordinated via shared intent/knowledge plus guardrailed cognitive engines.

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Chapters

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Welcome Back Dr. Vijoy Pandey

0:45 to 2:36

Jon Krohn welcomes back Dr. Vijoy Pandey to discuss AI advancements.

“Vijay, welcome back to the Super Data Science Podcast.”

The Vision of Distributed Superintelligence

2:36 to 3:52

Vijoy articulates the need for collaboration among AI agents to solve major problems.

“So yeah, I don't know if you want to kind of give us a high-level view of distributed artificial superintelligence right off the bat?”

Defining Artificial Superintelligence

3:52 to 6:39

Discussion on the definitions and implications of artificial superintelligence.

“artificial superintelligence, is kind of a loaded term for a lot of people where some people kind of feel like it's so woolly that it's almost useless to bring up.”

Unlocking Human-Level AI

6:39 to 8:31

Exploration of how distributed systems could achieve human-level intelligence.

“And we want to look at it from the economic perspective as well as the technology perspective.”

Framework for Distributed Intelligence

8:31 to 13:00

Vijoy discusses the framework needed for shared intent, knowledge, and innovation.

“our belts, Vijoy, tell us about this idea of distributed artificial superintelligence, or as I've seen you abbreviating it, D-A-S-I.”

Analogies in Knowledge Sharing

13:35 to 14:00

Jon and Vijoy compare human knowledge sharing evolution to AI collaboration.

“And so if I can make a bit of an analogy here, you can correct me where I get this wrong, but it sounds like prior to 70 ,000 years ago, when some pre-homo sapiens species, or was it homo sapiens?”

The Evolution of Knowledge Sharing

14:00 to 17:26

Learn how the sharing of knowledge has evolved from human brains to machines.

“time us to go from learning things inside of one brain, the neural weights, the, the, the neural connections inside of one skull and now be able to share knowledge.”

The Importance of Shared Intent

17:26 to 18:00

Discover the concept of shared intent and its significance in AI.

“And I'm not surprised that you're a big fan of sapiens, given these kinds of interests that you have.”

Concrete Examples of Shared Intent

18:00 to 22:44

Explore how shared intent functions through concrete examples in AI systems.

“intelligence, just as these three things were required for humans to be able to horizontally share information and achieve things together.”

Semantic Protocols for Communication

22:44 to 26:05

Understand the role of semantic protocols in enabling meaningful communication between agents.

“So we've built an agent using the cloud technologies, the models that are available to us.”
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Human and Agent Collaboration

26:05 to 28:00

Examine the future of collaboration between humans and intelligent agents.

“And so those are the sets of things that we want to do to then enable shared intent to happen.”

Natural Language as the Foundation for ASI

28:00 to 29:36

Explore how natural language serves as the lowest common denominator for communication in multi-agent systems.

“all innovation, all work that's going to happen tomorrow, this is where we started, is going to happen through multi-agent human societies.”

The Limitations of Language Models

29:36 to 31:52

Discuss the limitations of current language models and the need for world models in AI progression.

“And it's like putting neural links in our brains.”

Exploring Semantic Protocols in AI

31:52 to 35:31

Delve into how semantic protocols facilitate understanding among agents and humans in AI systems.

“human intelligence can solve and so yeah it's a really interesting point in history where it seems where we've been able to do things like take all of the language on the internet.”

Cognitive Memory Fabric and Knowledge Sharing

35:31 to 40:59

Learn about the cognitive memory fabric and its role in sharing knowledge within a multi-agent human society.

“Thank you for clarifying everything for me.”

Integrating Probabilistic and Deterministic Systems

40:59 to 42:00

Understand the importance of combining probabilistic engines with deterministic software in AI applications.

“It kind of reminds me how in our previous conversation, when you were in episode 941 with me, you talked about how having different kinds of systems like knowledge graphs paired with probabilistic predictions.”

Building Cognitive Memory Fabric

42:00 to 44:22

Learn how cognitive memory fabric supports shared knowledge and innovation.

“hand in hand with deterministic software and a good, solid, formal representation of the world that exists.”

Pillars of Distributed Artificial Superintelligence

44:22 to 46:48

Discover the three pillars of distributed superintelligence and their implications.

“So we've now talked about the first two of three pillars for distributed artificial superintelligence.”

Innovation Through Collaboration

46:48 to 49:44

Explore how agents can collaborate to invent new solutions, like a solar powered blueberry picker.

“The way you invent that is through making sure that you have cognitive engines that are helping you along the And there are two types, like Raj Reddy said.”

Future of Drug Discovery with Agents

49:44 to 55:06

Understand how agents can enhance drug discovery through shared knowledge and processes.

“And sharing that information with other agents that have other expertises could allow for innovation to happen.”

OutShift's Mission and Vision

55:06 to 56:00

Learn about OutShift's role in advancing distributed artificial superintelligence and quantum networking.

“pick up and I still don't know how to play.”

OutShift and Its Vision

56:00 to 57:38

Learn about the mission of OutShift and its focus on superintelligence and quantum computing.

“So thank you for playing such a big part in this.”

Engaging with Distributed AI

57:39 to 1:01:52

Discover how listeners can engage with distributed artificial superintelligence through a white paper and community involvement.

“But at Cisco, we have a pretty specific take on both of these swim blades.”

The Agency and AI Foundations

1:01:53 to 1:03:08

Understand the importance of the Agency and various AI projects related to distributed intelligence.

“And because the agency is a open source Linux foundation project, People can also be getting involved through that route as well, right?”

Final Thoughts and Social Media

1:03:09 to 1:04:58

Hear how to follow Dr. Pandey and engage with his work in AI and superintelligence.

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Transcript

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0:00Jon Krohn:70 ,000 years ago, a single evolutionary leap transformed scattered tribes into a civilization-building species, humans. Today, we're aiming to enable an analogous leap, but this time in machines. Welcome to episode number 961 of the Super Data Science Podcast. I'm your host, Jon Krohn. For this extraordinary episode, I asked Dr. Vijoy Pandey to return to the show to explain how, as head of Cisco's elite incubation engine, OutShift, He's helping bring together the currently isolated genius of today's individual AI agents to enable distributed artificial superintelligence. Here Vijoy eloquently explain how distributed artificial superintelligence will advance human health, reverse climate change, and much more.

0:43Jon Krohn:Enjoy. This episode of Super Data Science is made possible by Dell, Intel, Fabi, and Cisco. Vijay, welcome back to the Super Data Science Podcast. We had so much fun with you on the show last time in episode number 941 that I had to bring you back right away. Vijay, how are you doing? Doing great, John, and so happy to be back again. Excellent. Yes. And in our last conversation, you painted a bold vision of the future. I was so excited by it. It was a world where humans and AI agents form collaborative societies to tackle humanity's biggest challenges. It's the kind of techno-optimism that I am fueled by, but it was nice to hear somebody else who has that vision, and you added so much concreteness to it.

1:32Jon Krohn:So again, people can go back and check out episode 941 for all of the skinny, all of the picture that you painted back in that episode. But some of the key things that we're going to build on in this episode are that you introduced us to the concept of multi-agent systems and the open source platform agency, which enables agents to work together seamlessly. But you also explained how today's agents are isolated geniuses, brilliant, but unable to share their knowledge or collaborate effectively. And you challenged us to imagine a future where agents don't just solve problems individually, but scale their intelligence collectively.

2:09Jon Krohn:And so this is part of why we had to have you back on so soon because that left us with a tantalizing question. How do we move from isolated agents to a world of distributed super intelligence? And so you're back to talk about that today. Today's episode is focused on distributed artificial super intelligence, and I can't wait to hear all about it. So yeah, I don't know if you want to kind of give us a high-level view of distributed artificial superintelligence right off the bat? So here's the way we think about this. If you think about, I mean, we talked about human agent societies moving forward.

2:50And we talked about agents co-working with us, not in hierarchies, but in flat organizations. And I strongly believe that all scientific discovery, all human work, all technical work, all services work, in the future, all social interactions are going to happen within these multi-agent human societies. And the next breakthroughs are going to happen through artificial superintelligence, which is achieved not through these big, large, isolated geniuses by, like you said, but by collective intelligence, distributed intelligence, and sprawling societies and civilizations. And the way to enable that is to build a cognitive fabric that allows all of these multi-agents and humans to come together and collaborate and solve for those big problems.

3:43So that's what we are looking for and that's what we're working towards. And it's a big, long journey, but we are excited to be on that train.

3:51Jon Krohn:Yes, so the term superintelligence, artificial superintelligence, is kind of a loaded term for a lot of people where some people kind of feel like it's so woolly that it's almost useless to bring up. But I actually think we can define it quite concretely. Right. So like you said, I mean, there are many, many definitions of superintelligence. And we've, as an industry, we've gone from defining intelligence and AI to AGI. And then AGI was not a well-defined term. So we went to ASI, artificial superintelligence. Some people are thinking that's also not a well-defined term. People are talking about powerful AI.

4:34Like you said, some folks are in the camp that we have some level of superintelligence already. We've passed the Turing test, for example. I mean, is that a bar that we set ourselves for superintelligence? Maybe. But you know what? It's that feeling that there is something that is still missing. I mean, we know we all use AI today and it's super powerful in some use cases. It's pretty bad in certain use cases. So there is certainly something missing. So the way I think about them is what others have been talking about in terms of economic viability as well as technical viability. So if I were to summarize, the economic viability is, do we have a system of autonomous agents, autonomous AI that can perform 100 % of what a human can do without human intervention.

5:26And whether it's a niche task or it's a broad task, I mean, that's for debate, but no human intervention can a system of AI agents come together and autonomously perform that task to 100%. So that is one definition. That's the economic definition. Some folks like OpenAI I am talking about this. DeepMind also has a similar definition. And then there's the technology definition, which is can you have an objective-driven reasoning engine that can invent something that is beyond its training data? So can a system autonomously generate novel ideas, novel discoveries, invent something that is beyond anything it's ever seen, and that passes the rigor test.

6:14Of course, you can hallucinate and discover stuff. And again, without human intervention. So I think these are the two definitions that folks have been rallying behind. So whether it's Yang Lacoon, whether it's Demis, OpenAI, I mean, all of these, if you were to summarize, these were the two buckets. Whether you call it AGI, ASI, call it some other name, but these are the two sort of definitions that we are rallying behind. And we want to look at it from the economic perspective as well as the technology perspective. And we want to achieve that through a scale-out mechanism. And that's the goal that we're going after.

6:51Jon Krohn:Great definition there. I like how you also mentioned how there are people talking about things other than AGI, other kinds of terms like powerful AI, which is Dario Amadei, I think, kind of popularized that term. And we've done an episode on that kind of definition as well. So we have, I looked this up, we have this previous episode on five levels of AGI that Google DeepMind kind of founded. That's episode 748. And then we've also got 832, if you're interested in hearing more about this kind of idea of powerful AI as a kind of alternative way of framing AGI or artificial superintelligence. But regardless, I think now we've probably talked about it, both of us, enough that our audience, that our listeners have some idea of what we're talking about.

7:34Jon Krohn:basically machines that, as you said, can be tackling all the kinds of tasks that a human could be tackling and doing it at a level that is equal to or superior than what we're doing. And there are interesting things where it seems kind of obvious that if we were able to unlock an algorithm or set of algorithms, maybe distributed algorithms to be able to achieve

8:07Jon Krohn:capabilities that are equal to human intelligence across all the breadth that humans are capable of, it seems like it would be potentially instantaneous that you would then have super intelligence across all of these capabilities. Because if you had distributed systems learning off of each other, teaching each other how they could be doing things better, it seems like that would proceed very rapidly. Awesome. So now that we have this definition of artificial superintelligence under our belts, Vijoy, tell us about this idea of distributed artificial superintelligence, or as I've seen you abbreviating it, D-A-S-I.

8:44Right. So if you think about human intelligence, because one thing that we have in common moving forward is the comparison bar for all of us is human intelligence. And whether you think about artificial intelligence, AGI, ASI, powerful AI, whichever definition you might have, we just talked about two definitions, one which is economic in nature, one is technical in nature. There seems to be always this comparison metric, which is let's compare it against humans, because that's the best thing that we know when it comes to intelligence. So if you think about humans and how we evolved and how our intelligence evolved.

9:22We actually evolved intelligence across two axes. So the first 300 ,000, 400 ,000 years, human intelligence was actually scaling up vertically. So we were getting smarter and smarter. We were inventing tools. We were inventing processes, but it was limited because we weren't communicating that intelligence. So the communication was a big missing piece. And so what ended up happening was whatever we invented and whatever processes that we came up with and the dangers that we were aware of and how we reacted to those dangers and the way we stitched our clothes together or whatever we wore. I mean, I'm not an expert there, but whatever we did was limited to the lifetime of either that individual or that process.

10:12And so we became more and more intelligent, but it was very, very limited. And so we were scaling intelligence vertically. But as we all know, every system, including intelligence, can be scaled on two axes, vertically as well as horizontally. And so there was this big evolutionary jump around 70 ,000 years ago. It's called the cognitive evolution in humans, where we discovered language, not just sounds, not just paintings, and patterns, but language. How do you convey meaning, semantics between people? And then how do you convey that across humans, but across tribes and across generations? So what happened when that cognitive evolution happened was we invented three things.

11:03The first thing being shared intent. So as a human society, we started sharing a common intent. Let's go and build this not just in the lifetime of me as a person, but in the lifetime of this tribe or this group of people. So shared intent and coordination as a result. The second thing that we invented was shared knowledge. So this is what's colloquially known as standing on the shoulders of giants. So I build a knowledge base, then you add to it, then you add to it or you modify it and you keep doing that. And that is cumulative human knowledge. So we invented shared knowledge. And then the third thing, because of the first two, is now we could do shared innovation.

11:50So innovation itself wasn't a singular pursuit or an individual pursuit, but it was a shared pursuit. So that's what happened when language got invented and semantics got invented. And you started scaling horizontally because now you're inventing as a collective instead of as an individual. And so what we're seeing and the big thesis here is that so far in intelligence, in artificial intelligence, in artificial superintelligence, we've been building bigger and bigger individual geniuses. And the framework and the infrastructure to do collective intelligence, to do distributed intelligence has been missing.

12:34And that's what we want to go after. So distributed intelligence to us is to enable, to build a framework that allows for shared intent, shared knowledge, and shared innovation to happen in this multi-agent human society.

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13:29Jon Krohn:That's dell.com slash SHOPPCS. Nice. And so if I can make a bit of an analogy here, you can correct me where I get this wrong, but it sounds like prior to 70 ,000 years ago, when some pre-homo sapiens species, or was it homo sapiens? I don't even, yeah, you can correct me on that point as well when I give you a chance to speak again. Um, but you know, this, this human species develops language and it allows for the first time us to go from learning things inside of one brain, the neural weights, the, the, the neural connections inside of one skull and now be able to share knowledge. And then in recent millennia, that sharing of knowledge, um, horizontally across many brains has been accelerated dramatically through first writing and then through the printing press and then digital storage, the internet, GitHub.

14:39Jon Krohn:And so we're able to share information more and more between human brains. And so it sounds like what you're up to at OutShift with distributed artificial superintelligence is allowing that same kind of change in machines. Exactly. I mean, I think I don't remember what my book recommendation was, John, in the last episode, but if it wasn't Sapiens by Yuval Harari, then let me just state that that should be the book recommendation to go ahead and read because one of the big elements there that he talks about is how humans or homo sapiens took over the world. And that was through the power of the narrative.

15:27That was through the power of fiction and the power of a shared fiction. So whether it's religion, whether it's capitalism and money, whatever it is, the stories that we build and the way we rally behind those stories and the way we act to them and modify them is actually our biggest secret and the biggest invention. But that's like more of an anthropological statement. But if you think about in scientific terms and in computer science terms, what we really need to do is enable agents to, again, share intent, share knowledge, and share innovation. And the way to think about that is, let's look at agents today, where they are today.

16:13We've built these really powerful entities. And let's take a concrete example. We built a multi-agent framework, a multi-agent application for a customer of ours. And in that case, we had two agents. One agent was doing network configuration and validation. Another agent was making sure that it's compliant, it's secure, and it scales properly, and it's within budget. The problem is that today, both of these agents are individual geniuses, but they need to not only talk to each other, but understand each other, share intent, share knowledge, and then innovate together to build out that network.

16:56That framework does not exist. So how do we take the same solutions or the same design patterns that happened with humans 70 ,000 years ago that changed the cognitive evolution to happen, that made the cognitive evolution to happen within humans, and made that same evolution happen within agents. So can we look at building about an agentic cognitive evolution? That's the problem statement that we want to go after.

17:27Jon Krohn:That is wild. It is big. And I'm not surprised that you're a big fan of sapiens, given these kinds of interests that you have. It is one of my favorite books, certainly one of my favorite nonfiction books, and I've bought a lot of copies of it for people. I also, I don't think it was your recommendation at the end of your previous episode on the show, because I'd probably remember that. I don't remember what it was. I'll try to look it up at some point while we're recording here, but I don't think it was that book. I'm pretty sure I'd remember. So let's dig into this sharing intent concept a bit more.

17:58Jon Krohn:So you've talked about these three core capabilities that are required for distributed artificial super intelligence, just as these three things were required for humans to be able to horizontally share information and achieve things together. So sharing intent, let's focus on that one first. We'll talk about sharing knowledge and sharing innovation next. But so how is intent different from knowledge, for example. So I guess the key thing is with intent, I'm guessing it's related to being able to figure out what some agent, whether that's a biological one or an artificial one is planning on doing.

18:44Jon Krohn:And so that's kind of different from knowledge where knowledge is kind of like a set of facts maybe. And so, yeah, so intent is, yeah, it's really this intentionality, this ability to predict what an agent is trying to do. Let's break it down. So let's take that example that I just talked about. So intent, all of us as individuals have intentionality around a task that we want to do. So let's say prehistoric times, since we're talking about that, we wanted to capture that hill. Now, that is a shared intent. while we capture that hill or the village on the hill, we are all subject matter experts.

19:26So some might be warriors, some might be medics, there might be a king or a leader, there might be a treasurer. We only have so many coins left or so much grain left. So there are all of these subject matter experts with their own intents and their own optimization functions. The shared intent is, can we capture that village on the top of the hill within budget with the least amount of casualties in the shortest amount of time, as an example? So that is a shared intent, because even though all of us might have different individual optimization functions and intents, a shared intent allows us to solve a broad problem together, keeping the various individual intents under balance.

20:20And so in the concrete example that I talked about earlier, these two agents, so one agent is there to configure the network and make the best network possible. Since it's coming from OutShift and Cisco, we might not really dig into the details of compliance and cost and time because that's not what this agent is supposed to do. So the job of this agent, this individual genius, is to be really, really good at building out a network with all of the devices that it has in hand that scales well, performs well, and so on. And then there's this other agent in this case that is looking at compliance, that is looking at security, but is also looking at budget and on-time delivery.

21:06So the shared intent is, can you build out this new network, which is awesome, performant, scales well, carries all kinds of traffic, but is on time, is under budget, and is compliant and secure. So that is a shared intent. You might have to make trade-offs on one side or the other to make that shared intent happen, because individually they cannot solve it because they lack that common goal. So it's a common goal. So that's shared intent. coming to shared knowledge because you picked that and what's the difference there? The shared knowledge.

21:39Jon Krohn:Well, let's quickly say something that I'd love to just dig into on shared intent there for one quick second is it sounds like in the distributed artificial superintelligence framework that you've come up with, semantic protocols seem to be the kind of the practical implementation of that shared intent. So maybe we could kind of, maybe you could kind of tell us, maybe even in the context of the outshift example. And I love that you're giving us that concrete example. It makes it so much easier to understand what we're talking about here. So yeah, so maybe in the example, you could go into these semantic protocols so that we can understand how that particular solution allows sharing intent in agents.

22:21Jon Krohn:And if you happen to be able to get more on the capturing the town on the hill as part of the analogy to help us understand semantic protocols, I'm really enjoying that one. Right. So if you think about the example, because that's more concrete, let's go there first. The OutShift agent, which is the network configuration agent, has been built on technologies that are specific to OutShift. So we've built an agent using the cloud technologies, the models that are available to us. It actually mostly aligns with what we see in terms of regulations and laws in the US, because that's what we are most familiar with.

23:05It looks at design patterns that are pretty broad, because as Cisco and as OutShift, we've looked at network design across many, many, many customers. So that's our worldview, and that's OutShift agents' worldview. It's like saying, you and I, you have an Android phone and I have an iPhone. And we can send a text to each other so you can see a green bubble and a blue bubble. Barely you can send text to each other. But you're speaking Japanese and I'm speaking English. So what's in those texts? We have no idea around. So we can connect to each other, but we can't communicate. We can't collaborate.

23:44There is no shared intent. There's no communication of information. there's no semantic exchange of information. There's no meaning behind this connection. And so the agentic world today is full of connectivity, but devoid of meaning is the way I look at this. And what we're trying to do as a first step to enable shared intent is to bring about meaningful communication. And so when these two agents, coming back to our concrete examples, when these two agents talk to each other between OutShift and Swisscom, not only can they sit behind two models, two cloud technologies and connect to each other and exchange messages to a protocol like A2A or MCP or whatever, but then talk about the layer above this and actually think about the meaning, start communicating semantic meaning, messages that actually convey meaning.

24:47And why is that important? Why that's important is we actually want to start looking at a common understanding. So when we talk about shared intent, the first thing to get to is grounding and a common understanding. What is the problem that we want to solve? And do we all agree on the same terminology, the problem space, the same objectives, the same goals. That's step one. Step two is discovery. So maybe while we start looking at the objectives, we realize there's missing information. So can we start looking at and thinking about pieces of information and knowledge that are missing? Resolution of conflicting information.

25:29So we might say, I might say X, you might say Y, but there's now a common goal. Can we now resolve those conflicting pieces of information so that we are going after a common goal? Coordination. That's the big thing. Because, again, I might have to give up some things. You might have to give up some things to actually achieve that common goal. So coordination and then negotiations that come with it. And then finally, evaluation of those goals. So all of these things can only happen at the semantic layer. It does not happen to just message passing and the protocols of that layer. So the semantic layer that we're building out is actually a layer or a set of protocols that allow all of these things to happen, whether it's grounding, whether it's discovery, whether it's resolution, coordination, negotiation, and evaluation.

26:22And so those are the sets of things that we want to do to then enable shared intent to happen.

26:27Jon Krohn:That is super fascinating. And maybe this is going a bit too into the nitty gritty, or maybe this is not even a question that makes sense. And you're going to be able to refine this for me. But when you're describing these kinds of semantic protocols that allow for clear shared intent, regardless of whether the algorithm is outputting in English or Japanese or Svitzdeutsch in Swiss German or whatever. So it sounds like this might be some, how is this information captured? Tell us about kind of like, what is the substrate? What is the information in these semantic protocols that's being shared between?

27:11So if you think about this, agents are human-like at machine speeds and scale. But also, humans do not operate at machine speed and scale. And so there is a if and only if situation here where agents can operate like humans, but they can also operate like machines. So they can do API calls, but they can also do NLP. Humans, I mean, I don't think I can do API calls at speed, right? Maybe I can communicate at speed. So there is definitely a space and a mode of communication that agents can perform that humans cannot. So I would answer your question in three different ways. The first being that I truly believe that all innovation, all work that's going to happen tomorrow, this is where we started, is going to happen through multi-agent human societies.

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28:11So agents and humans operating at the same fabric, same level, not in hierarchies, but at the same level. And so that is a goal that we're going after. If that were the case, then the lowest common denominator is natural language. And so we have to solve for the natural language problem, because there are going to be humans and agents in the mix for a long, long, long time to come. So that's the lowest common denominator. Then you go one step further up and say, okay, let's say, and let's think about the ASI definition that we started with, which is, can agents solve for either discovery or economically viable work 100 % of the time without human intervention?

28:59And so in that case, there is no human in the loop by definition. And so what does that look like? I would say even in that case, the lowest common denominator is still language because you will get agents and you will get components that are not from the same vendor, they're not from the same framework, and so on and so forth. So there, the lowest common denominator does become language. And I'll put an asterisk there and come to that in a second. And then the third level is, let's say we all did Kumbaya and we agreed, you know, this thing is really inefficient. And it's like putting neural links in our brains.

29:41And that's the fastest way to communicate with each other. And that's your scary nightmare, John. But let's say we go there, then absolutely, yes, the vector space is the way to communicate because the amount of information that you would have in vector space is actually reduced dramatically, significantly, when you convert that and you tokenize that and actually make it go towards language. So I would say if everything was standardized and there was no capitalism in mind and people all agreed to things, then I would say vector space is the way to communicate. But in reality, I would say we would fall back to number two or number three because that is where how things will evolve over time.

30:32And so that's the answer I would give. And I would go back to that asterisk for a second and say that we're talking about language here, but language models are not the only models that we're going to tackle in the future. So they're going to be world models. And one of the things that actually we've just read recently that came out of the FAIR labs and a bunch of other places is when you think about world models, tokenization is actually a big detriment. So vector space is the only way to communicate. So I would say that is something that we need to solve for anyway. but for now we are going after tokenization and language and that's what we're trying to solve for in distributed superintessence.

31:18Jon Krohn:I'm so glad you dug into that asterisk there at the end because it's amazing how this whole conversation, the entire more than 30 minutes that we've been recording so far this episode, any example that you've been talking about, I imagine with language tokens as the inputs and outputs. and it is so interesting how that is such a small set of the kind of meaning that can be conveyed the kinds of problems that can be solved the kinds of understandings of the world that we would need to solve all the kinds of problems that a human intelligence human intelligence human intelligence can solve and so yeah it's a really interesting point in history where it seems where we've been able to do things like take all of the language on the internet.

32:07And that's been a relatively easy thing to feed through large language models that are

32:14Jon Krohn:increasingly massive and therefore have all of these unexpected properties emerge out of them, intellectual abilities. But there's still years and years and years, probably decades of work ahead of us to even be capturing the data that we need for world models, 3D navigation of the world. And yeah, it's a completely different kind of information storage. And yeah, I love how at the end of your asterisk there, you touched on how, because if you take a multimodal system, a multimodal AI system, it has to have, if it does both machine vision and natural language processing, it has to have embeddings, a vector space where that meaning converges.

33:03And that's not something that you can't just look at that and get a snapshot

33:10Jon Krohn:and understand it as a human looking at it. But we might not be far off from a machine that can explain that to us. And so maybe bringing this all back to shared intent and semantic protocols, It sounds to me like the semantic protocols that the distributed artificial superintelligence framework that you've developed at OutShift, it allows us to, regardless of what is being transferred, what specific information is being transferred between agents or humans in this multi-agent human collaborative system, whether it's natural language tokens or pixels or vector embeddings, whatever it is, The semantic protocols are a way of ensuring that the proper meaning is understood between multiple players in the system.

34:01The way I would phrase it is that we are starting with the language side of the equation. And so what we're starting with is the tokenized output. We're starting with natural language because that's where the world is today. And the other thing I would say is it's not apples to apples, but you can represent, like anything that you see or experience, you can represent through language, whether it's natural language like English or whether it's a mathematical language or the language of physics and equations. But most of the things that you see around you, you can represent in some form of language.

34:41It's an approximation. It's not apples to apples, but you can get pretty far along by just broadening your view of what a language is beyond natural language to the languages of science and physics and mathematics and so on. So where we are starting out with is a language, because that's also the world where Cisco plays in, where we are the glue in enterprises between heterogeneous systems in brownfield environments. And that's where most of the world is going to be. We are not going to appear in a world where it's a very purest one model just from one vendor. I mean, that's not where we play.

35:23So for us to tackle this heterogeneous distributed brownfield environment is where the bigger problems are in enterprises.

35:32Jon Krohn:Awesome. I love that answer. Thank you for clarifying everything for me. I think I now have a great picture of this first pillar of the distributed artificial superintelligence framework. Before I get on to the second pillar, I have a really quick random social side question for you, Vijay. Have you come across or maybe even watched a new TV series called Pluribus? Please do not give that away. I've been waiting to watch it. It's in my queue. It's in my queue. And I've been like, everybody has been telling me you've got to watch it. I was waiting for all the episodes to drop and now they've dropped.

36:03So I'm probably going to binge watch it right after this episode.

36:07Jon Krohn:Nice. Yeah. I don't want to give anything away because I really enjoyed having the story unfold for me without knowing what was going to happen at all. So I won't spoil anything for you at all, but I think you're really going to enjoy it. And I can't wait to record a third episode with you so that can be focused exclusively on Pluribus. And because there's ways that I'm not going to go into it all because I don't want to spoil anything for you. But there's things about our conversation that we've just been having, semantic protocols, these kinds of things that I think you'll, yeah, you might pull out of, you might see what you'll, you might understand what I'm saying now Now you're making a really difficult job.

36:45Jon Krohn:All right, so onward to the second pillar of your distributed artificial superintelligence framework. So you call this cognitive memory fabric. And this pillar is all around sharing knowledge. Like 20 minutes ago, I interrupted you as you were about to start talking about sharing knowledge to distinguish it against sharing intent. So now the floor is yours. Go for it. Yeah. So intent, I mean, intent can be shared through protocols and semantic protocols and so on. We just talked about that where you need to figure out grounding. you need to figure out missing information, the evaluation, and so on and so forth.

37:27But that is for the task, the objective that as a multi-agent human society you want to achieve, you need to share intent. But there is knowledge that is being built over time as well. So remember when we started back and compared this cognitive, agentic cognitive evolution to what happened with humans. The big thing there was, can we build up a knowledge base, the corpus of human knowledge, as we like to call it, the standing on the shoulder of giants, as we like to call it, what does that look like for heterogeneity? So what does that look like for many agents, for many vendors, inclusive of what humans contribute in that framework?

38:14And so the way we're thinking about that is to build out what we're calling a cognitive memory fabric. And the reason to pick those terms is, so it is cognitive in nature. So it's not data, it's not information, it's actually higher order. So that's number one. Number two is it's memory because it's persistent. So you are keeping it around for a while. You're summarizing things and you're you're extracting knowledge out of it. So that's number two. And number three is it's a fabric. So it's distributed in nature because by the very fact that we're looking at heterogeneous environments, there are things that we want to share and place in this fabric.

39:03And then there are things that we want to keep private. So as an example, I mean, you and I are having a conversation. This is a bad example, but this is getting recorded and this is going to get published on the internet, but let's say we were sitting in a coffee house somewhere and we're having a conversation. That conversation is private. So everything that we talked about in terms of shared intent applies because we are grounding ourselves, we are exchanging, we're discovering things, we're resolving conflict and so on and so forth. But there is no shared knowledge. I mean, the shared knowledge is only, shared.

39:40I mean, you've imparted knowledge to me and I have imparted knowledge to you. So we've become better individual geniuses in some ways. We've scaled ourselves vertically, but we have not published anything that anybody else can benefit from, or including us. I mean, 10 years later, we might forget a lot about that conversation. So we've solved the shared intent part. We've solved the semantic communication part, But we have not solved the shared knowledge part so that the bigger agent human society can actually go and do something with it. And so to us, the way to think about shared knowledge is so that we want to move the ball forward when it comes to the knowledge base of this shared multi-agent human society.

40:31And the way we think about building that out is we're looking at all kinds of memory. So we're looking at working memory, we're looking at knowledge, we're looking at ontologies, we're looking at knowledge graphs. And it's going to be a combination of all of those things shared between multiple entities with strict privacy and access control mechanisms layered on top of that.

40:57Jon Krohn:Nice. I like it. This makes a lot of sense to me. It kind of reminds me how in our previous conversation, when you were in episode 941 with me, you talked about how having different kinds of systems like knowledge graphs paired with probabilistic predictions. So this kind of this blend of very firm, very rigid knowledge with probabilistic language that those two kinds of systems paired together are what can make the most powerful AI systems of today. And so it sounds like perhaps with this now new term, new pillar, cognitive memory fabric that we're talking about in this episode, it sounds like it captures that idea from the previous episode, right?

41:45That's exactly where this came from. So going back to, again, the example that we've been running with, the cognitive example, which is you have two agents and they're trying to build the network for SwissCog. And this idea behind the cognitive memory fabric actually came because of the work that we did with Swisscom, where we realized that probabilistic engines like agents need to work hand in hand with deterministic software and a good, solid, formal representation of the world that exists. And so in this case, again, in the case of Swisscom, this was the network digital twin. And so what we realized was if you just throw agents into the mix and say, go and build out Swisscom's next network, that's a recipe for disaster.

42:41You can go the other way and say, let's just build digital twins and write deterministic software. and then you're not exploring the entire massive space that generative AI and agentic software does allow you to do. So you're writing deterministic software, which is very narrow in scope and space. So the combination of the two, which says, let's build a formal model of the world around us, in this case, a network digital twin, and then layer on these agents that can go and explore and just go at it, right? and be creative and do that shared innovation that we talked about. That combination is super powerful.

43:21And so we had some learnings from there. There were like three or four use cases that we went after and we realized we need to generalize this layer. This layer of representing formally what a world looks like so that other agents can act on it over time and contribute to it is what was missing. And so that's what the cognitive memory fabric is, which allows you to not just use it as a working memory of sorts, but synthesize it, summarize it, evolve it, redact, add to it. And that is what we are building out in a generalized manner. And that's what, yeah, it exactly came from this use case that we talked about.

44:05Jon Krohn:Cool. I'm kind of surprised that I nailed it so much on the head because, you know, lots of other points in this conversation. I guess any conversation I'm in, I'm like, ah, I think I have this really relevant point you brought up before. And you're like, ah, well, actually, so I'm delighted to have got one there. So we've now talked about the first two of three pillars for distributed artificial superintelligence. So the first one was semantic protocols for sharing intent. The second one, which we just were talking about was cognitive memory fabric for sharing knowledge. The third pillar is sharing innovation.

44:40Jon Krohn:And I understand you have something called cognitive engines as the formal name for your solution as part of this distributed artificial superintelligence framework. This brings up a quote from Raj Reddy, who's a Turing Award scientist. He came up with this quote, and I heard it recently being shared by Satya Nadella on one podcast. I think it was Lex or Dvakesh, I can't remember which one it was, but he brought this back, which is artificial intelligence in general, AI, can either be guardian angel or a cognitive accelerator. And that quote resonated with me so strongly because we were thinking about cognitive engines and then Satya brings up this quote from Raj Reddy and I'm like, yep, that is exactly what this cognitive engine layer is trying to do, which is we've done shared intent through semantic protocols.

45:41We've done shared knowledge through a cognitive memory fabric. What do we do with it? The whole aim is now going back and thinking about how do we do distributed superintelligence? How do we do economically viable work or new scientific discovery 100 % through agents, through a horizontal as well as a vertical scaling mechanism. And so that is a problem that we want to go after. And so while we get towards, let's say, solving for something brand new in this, again, going with a running example of let's build a net new network, which nobody has seen before. How can we build a net new network? Let's say it's a low-earth satellite network that they've never built before.

46:33That is new innovation. That is net new that none of them have been trained about. But they need to get towards building that through shared intent, shared knowledge, and shared innovation. So this is where the shared innovation piece comes through. None of them have seen it. They want to invent something new. The way you invent that is through making sure that you have cognitive engines that are helping you along the And there are two types, like Raj Reddy said. There are accelerators and then there are guardrails. And so the accelerators allow you to do things faster. So I want to lean on, the simplest thing could be, like we said, it could be a calculator.

47:17I want to lean on something that does certain tasks faster than any human or agent in this case can do. So we are building out engines that can accelerate certain aspects of a workflow. So that's an accelerator. Guard-race is like making sure that it's not going haywire. Because you're doing something new, you're inventing something new, you might not be within the boundaries of what is allowed. So how do you ensure that it's, again, going back to security or compliance, or it does not violate the laws of robotics. I'm just making that up, but there are guardrails that allow you to work in spaces that don't disrupt the laws of physics.

48:04So it could be as simple as, you know what, this is a world model, and I know what jello feels like, and that's encoded. I know what a wall feels like, and that's encoded. And this acid test that all robotics people go through, can you sort blueberries, right? So I know what a blueberry feels like, And that is encoded. And so these are guardrails that need to exist so that the models don't go beyond those guardrails. And so I think those are the two classes of engines that we want to build and then let these two agents of ours go and innovate. So you have the knowledge base, you have a way to communicate intent and coordinate.

48:47And now you have these two engines that you can rely upon, sets of engines, to accelerate work innovation. and be guarded so you're not doing something stupid. And across all of this, now you have shared innovation. Now just go ahead and have fun and give me the solution to the problem I'm looking for. Sorry. Yes, the solution to the problem I'm looking for.

49:10Jon Krohn:Yeah, yeah. This is so fascinating. And there's kind of even this energy in the way that you're describing it. I feel like I now need to kind of try to roll forward with your brain and kind of get your vision of how having something like this distributed artificial superintelligence can change the trajectory of what machines can be doing. We're kind of starting to talk about it there with maybe one agent has encoded what a blueberry feels like. And so it's able to be able to delicately pull blueberries. And sharing that information with other agents that have other expertises could allow for innovation to happen.

49:55Jon Krohn:So maybe there's another agent that knows how to use solar power to move a vehicle around a field. And so those two together can say, oh, wow, we should be making a solar powered blueberry picking device. And so that kind of gets me thinking about the same kind of vision for the future that you talked about a little bit in the previous episode. So in episode 941, you talked about how drug discovery could potentially be accelerated by agents working together. So you could have LLMs planning the research. You could have protein folding models exploring shapes, nucleotide configurations that lead to new kinds of proteins, robots running wet lab experiments, compliance agents monitoring everything.

50:45Jon Krohn:So with decentralized artificial superintelligence, with that framework, how does that kind of pipeline that you were describing in your previous appearance on the show evolve? Right. So that's a super, super awesome example there because it brings in capabilities that cross vertical boundaries. So let's think about direct discovery where you have maybe a large language model that allows you to first plan for what you're trying to achieve. So this is the goal building exercise and iterating exercise. So you want to build or create a drug that does X. So when you build a plan for that, you actually want to define the problem, the goal, really carefully and iterate with a large language model to then break down that goal into discrete tasks.

51:36So that's step number one. And you figure out which parts of the task goes to which kinds of agents moving forward. So that's the first step. And then from that, you might go into an agent that is based on an alpha fold-like scientific foundation model that is doing the protein folding exercise and exploring that space in a pretty comprehensive manner. From that, AlphaFold is going to give you a set of possible outcomes that look interesting. And you want to test that against these compliance agents, these effectiveness agents, these manufacturability agents, and so on. And so that's what you do next.

52:19And that's an iterative curve itself that you'll have to go through for a long time. Till you narrow the space further down and get to, yeah, maybe these are the 10 options that I want to take and do some wet lab experiments, actual rubber meets the road kind of situation here. And then you get into physical AI or embodied AI, and you have a bunch of these robotic labs doing these wet lab experiments to make sure that it passes muster in the physical world before you get into maybe human trials or even animal trials for that nature. And so this entire pipeline is going across multiple kinds of models from various vendors who are experts in each one of these things.

53:05And they need to get connected and talk to each other. And that's where the world is today. So just being able to pass messages is where the world is today. And that's what we're doing with agency and A2A and MCP and all the work that's happening today. But then all of these entities need to then share common intent, which is let's build or create a drug for this specific purpose with this price point in mind, with this population in mind, with these risk characteristics in mind. So that is the goal that needs to be defined. And that is the shared intent. And so you need a set of semantic protocols to make sure that you iterate on that, make sure you discover information, resolve conflict, negotiate, coordinate, and get to a common goal.

53:59So that needs to happen. Then we need shared knowledge because as you're doing these things, as you're iterating between the compliance agent, the manufacturability agent, and the protein folding agent, they need to share knowledge and look at what's worked, what's not. The compliance agent even needs to pull from the past and say, you know what, even if this looks like it's going to work, you're going to get stopped when you're looking for approval from FDA. So there needs to be shared knowledge and you need to add to it, redact, modify it. And then finally, you need these guardrails and cognitive engines that are doing guardrails and acceleration so that you can do these experiments faster, but within the boundaries of what's possible.

54:50And so that's the shared innovation that needs to happen above the shared intent and the shared knowledge layer. So that is how I see the drug discovery of the future that's going to happen, that's going to make me a healthier person and make me live for 200 years and let me play the guitars that I still have to pick up and I still don't know how to play. You don't know how to play the guitars behind you? I mean, this is always, it's like super intelligence, John. It's like you will always be working towards that goal.

55:23Jon Krohn:I see. I see. I got you. Well, they look, they're occluded a little bit, but they still look beautiful. I'm sure they'll sound nice once you have the time to play them when artificial super intelligence is handling everything from drug discovery, climate change issues, healthcare, education. It's unreal the number of areas that these artificially super intelligent systems, when they're distributed, when they can share intent, knowledge, innovation effectively, what they're going to be able to do for us in the coming decades. It's staggering and I'm really excited for it. So thank you for playing such a big part in this.

56:03Jon Krohn:Something that we talked about in the preceding episode that we haven't in this one is that you're doing this from the position of leading OutShift, which is an internal incubator at Cisco. Probably most of our listeners have heard of the company Cisco. For listeners who might not remember from your preceding episode on the show, can you remind us of OutShift's mission and where does distributed artificial superintelligence fit into the broader work you're doing there, including really mind-blowing things like quantum networking that you mentioned in the preceding episode? So OutShift is Cisco's internal incubation engine.

56:39So we are a group of people that are looking at horizon three, horizon two problems in spaces such as artificial superintelligence, as well as quantum computing, and spotting the next trends and paradigm shifts that are going to happen in these spaces, and making sure that Cisco is well positioned in those spaces to build businesses with those paradigm shifts. And the way we're thinking about those things is we put the Cisco lens on these problem spaces. And you mentioned this in the guitar playing narrative that John, but to me, these two problem statements of super intelligence and quantum computing are problems that we as an industry have worked on for decades in the past, and I believe we'll be working on them for decades to come, because these are shifting goals, and these are hard problems.

57:35And so we'll be working on both of these problems for a long time to come. But at Cisco, we have a pretty specific take on both of these swim blades. And the take is that we are a networking and security company, primarily, and then an observability company. And so we are in the business of enabling distributed systems. So the way we look at any problem statement is, whereas the world is trying to build these massively vertical, big, bad systems, or like we like to call it lone wolves, we are here to empower the pack. So while you are building the lone wolf, we are here to build our distributed scale, horizontal scale, scale out systems, and empower the pack.

58:23So when we look at superintelligence, and we've talked about this in this episode, we are looking at distributed superintelligence. And the same thing that we're doing in quantum computing, where as people build out these quantum machines, which are bigger and more effective and can solve larger problems, and have more and more qubits, we are here to build the quantum network that connects all of those quantum nodes together in a distributed quantum computing system so that you can solve problems, larger problems faster. So that's our entire gig when it comes to both superintelligence and quantum.

59:00And it's our job to spot the next paradigm shift and enable it to Cisco.

59:05Jon Krohn:Really cool, Vijay. For listeners out there who are inspired by the vision that you've been talking about today, which is about as inspiring as it gets, what can they be doing? I understand, for example, that you have a white paper that's just come out. It's called Scaling Superintelligence, a Cognitive Architecture for Distributed Artificial Superintelligence. Maybe tell us about that white paper where people could find it. I mean, we'll have it in the show notes, but maybe there's kind of the white paper. What are other things that people can be doing to engage with outshift agency or be involved in distributed artificial superintelligence?

59:42Right, so that white paper actually talks through a lot of the conversation that we just had today in this episode. And it talks through the parallels to human intelligence and how that has evolved as well. It talks about the details behind the three layers we just mentioned. So reading that white paper would be step one. Definitely go and check that out. I would say if you are a data scientist, a developer, or just plain not happy with the state of things when it comes to agentic AI and wished that agents could do something better and bigger and bolder and not be in this state where they are today, come and join that vision and come and join that mission because we are all in the same boat.

1:00:31We are trying to take agents and make them solve really hard and sometimes really boring problems. And the reason they're boring is that we've talked about them time and again, and we have not had the tools or the capabilities to solve them in new and different ways. And I think we are at the precipice of having those tools at our disposal. So let's come together and build those use cases out and bring us those use cases. Let's solve those boring, hard problems through these new tools that we have and look at that paper and help us solve this in a holistic way. Because yes, we are trying to solve the identity problem through agency.

1:01:09We're trying to solve the communication problem and messaging problem through A2A and MCP, the observability problem and the discovery problem. Those are all great problems, but we are looking at the weeds here. We need to take a step back. Let's say tomorrow we solve for all of those problems. We will not be solving for this vision that we have. We will not get to a place where agents can come together and solve for this definition of superintelligence because the bigger problems are the semantic problems. And we need to start with those problems right now. And the way to start with those is read the paper, but bring us the use cases and join us in this journey.

1:01:53Jon Krohn:Awesome. That sounds great. And because the agency is a open source Linux foundation project, People can also be getting involved through that route as well, right? That is a great way to get involved. You can go to agency.org. That's A-G-N-T-C-Y.org. Agency is a Linux Foundation project. We are also core members and launch members of the A2A project from Google, which is also a Linux Foundation project. And then just this November, we became a launch partner for the Agentic AI Foundation, where MCP exists. and that's also a Linux Foundation project. So there's a theme here, but we are launch partners for all of those three because we believe all those three projects are complementary to each other.

1:02:40They bring things to the table. They need to get glued together to solve for that communication layer problem that we just talked about. And then, yes, above this, we are building out the semantic layer and the knowledge layer to make everything work better. So, John, yeah, one thing I just wanted to state there is that I think I misspoke that, uh, the agentic AI foundation where we are a launch partner, as well as where MCP currently resides. Uh, it was formed in December and not in November. So I just wanted to clarify.

1:03:13Jon Krohn:Awesome. So many things for us to dig our teeth into after the episode, we already have your book recommendation from earlier in the episode. It's sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. so we can skip right to my final question that I ask all my guests, which is Vijay, you are brilliant. You are such a joy to listen to. I loved our previous episode. I loved this episode with you. I can't wait to do another one. I'm sure our audience can't as well. But in the meantime, how can they get your thoughts? Where can they follow you on social media? I'm the most active on LinkedIn, which is linkedin.in-vjoy. So we'll put the link in there.

1:03:52So I'm the most active there. I do post on X, but it's actually getting very noisy. So it's hard to extract signal from the noise. But you can also go to vjarpanday.com, which is a personal website. But the best place to get all of this information is actually to head towards outshift.com, which is where it's not just me, because I'm just the spokesperson, but it's the team that is actually innovating, the team that is doing work, the team behind all of the things that we've talked about, they are providing more details and more flavor to what's happening. So go to Outdoor.com because that's where you'll find a lot of the stuff that we've just touched about and a lot more to come.

1:04:34Jon Krohn:I love it. Congrats also on getting the LinkedIn URL that's just your first name. That is quite a catch. Nicely done. All right. It's been so awesome having you on the show. And as I just said, I can't wait for the next time. Thank you so much for taking the time with us from your busy schedule. This was amazing, John. As always, a fun conversation. Thank you for having me. Always great to have Vijoy Pandey on the show. In this mind-blowing episode, he covered how distributed artificial superintelligence is the idea that artificial superintelligence will emerge not from building ever-larger individual models, but from enabling AI agents to collaborate, much like humans, scaled intelligence through language 70 ,000 years ago.

1:05:17Jon Krohn:He talked about how Now that cognitive revolution gave humans three capabilities, shared intent, shared knowledge, and shared innovation, the same three pillars Visualize team is building for AI agents. On that note, his team at Outshift, Cisco's internal incubation arm, is building this framework while contributing to open source projects like Agency, A2A, and MCP, so you can get involved too. As always, you can also get all the show notes, including the transcript for this episode, the video recording, any materials mentioned on the show, the URLs for Vijoy's social media profiles, as well as my own at superdatascience.com slash 961.

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In this episode you will learn:

(03:55) A definition of artificial super-intelligence

(14:03) Distributed learning through Cisco’s Outshift

(21:29) The semantic protocols for sharing intent in a distributed artificial super-intelligence framework

(37:44) The cognitive memory fabric of the distributed artificial super-intelligence framework

(46:24) Using cognitive engines as part of the distributed artificial super-intelligence framework

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