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AI Breakthroughs, AGI Risks, & The Future Of Thought: A Conversation With Dr. Bo Wen

2025/6/14
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Bo Wen: 我最初是作为一名物理学家开始我的职业生涯的，研究低温凝聚态物理。我对单分子磁体的长程相互作用进行了研究。即使今天，当我研究人工智能时，我仍然从我的物理学背景中汲取灵感，这对我非常有帮助。后来，我加入了IBM，他们聘请我担任物理学家，从事医疗用途的可穿戴技术研究。随着公司战略的转变和我的研究兴趣的变化，我开始思考如何利用信息技术来理解疾病，了解患者与环境的互动，并帮助患者更健康。

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This chapter introduces Dr. Bo Wen, his background as a physicist, his transition to AI research at IBM, and his current focus on digital health initiatives. It provides an overview of his expertise in large language models and AGI.
  • Dr. Bo Wen's interdisciplinary background blends physics, neuroscience, and AI.
  • His work at IBM focuses on digital health initiatives.
  • He has expertise in large language models (LLMs) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

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Meet Dr. Bo Wen, a staff research scientist, AGI specialist, cloud architect, and tech lead in digital health at IBM. He’s joining us to discuss his perspective on the rapid evolution of AI – and what it could mean for the future of human communication…

With deep expertise in generative AI, human-AI interaction design, data orchestration, and computational analysis, Dr. Wen is pushing the boundaries of how we understand and apply large language models. His interdisciplinary background blends digital health, cognitive science, computational psychiatry, and physics, offering a rare and powerful lens on emerging AI systems.

Since joining IBM in 2016, Dr. Wen has played a key role in the company’s Healthcare and Life Sciences division, contributing to innovative projects involving wearables, IoT, and AI-driven health solutions. Prior to IBM, he earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the City University of New York and enjoyed a successful career as an experimental physicist.

In this conversation, we explore:

How Dr. Wen foresaw the AI breakthrough nearly a decade ago The implications of AGI for communication, reasoning, and human-AI collaboration How large language models work. What AI needs to understand to predict words in sentences. 

Want to dive deeper into Dr. Wen’s work? Learn more here)!

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C)

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