How to pronounce “teg” in English

Tega: OK. The word was lavender?

Tega: Lavender is purple.

Tega: Hmm.

Tega will ask questions, add funny commentary, and of course, weave in that target vocabulary for the week.

Tegan, I would love to hear what you think about that.

So Tega being a social robot means that its goal is to help people with their goals.

In Tega's case, we were building it to see if a robot could help young children as they were learning how to read.

Like Tegan and I had a subscription to Spin Magazine and Rolling Stone.

Max Tegmark has his book, and he talks about some of this.

Max Tegmark, everyone.

Take Max Tegmark's idea.

Physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark, president of the Future of Life Institute at MIT said, "In creating AI, we're birthing a new form of life

And it wasn't Tegan and Sara.

And like Tegan mentioned, I use a computer as my sort of way of translating all of that into something that I then share with other people.

I really like Tegan and Sara's new record.

And it was my job to introduce Tega and get children oriented to how to use it.

It's literally-- it's Tegan and Sara's.

And so by the time Tegan came out, a lot of those same people got it right with her.

The nucleus accumbens and the ventral tegmental areas light up as if it were the 4th of July.

Please join me in welcoming Max Tegmark.

Teg Bahadur sahib played the role of a Sufi fakir in the play Lani Qurbani,

Let me show you a quick clip of Tega in action.

You're going to read some stories with Tega today.

And I am so excited for today's talk with Tegan and Sara.

Sara, Tegan, welcome. It is great to have you.

But one of them, Tegan, was from you.

And everybody was kind of like ready for Tegan to come out.

Rights Campaign, Tegan and Sara Foundation, and more.

So we've got physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark back again to share with us the collective takeaways from the recent Asilomar conference on the Future of AI

Dr. Tegmark is an MIT physics professor who loves thinking about life's big questions.

Randi Williams: So as you saw, it's Tega's job to keep the child engaged in the story.

And I you know, I hosted Max Tegmark on my on my documentary and and he was

Over the course of their career, Tegan and Sara have released nine studio albums.

And in 2016, they established the Tegan and Sara Foundation to fight for equality and gender justice.

And I became so-- I mean, Tegan loved Smashing Pumpkins as well.

And if anything was mentioned about Nirvana, Tegan was allowed to have that and put it in her room.

Whatever. But I felt like Tegan was revealing real emotion and connection and intimacy to her secret girlfriend.

But anyways, I remember feeling so mad at Tegan when I had to come out.

Most recently, the physicist Max Tegmark has argued in this direction, saying somehow consciousness is substrate-independent.

As a brief introduction, Max Tegmark is a renowned scientific communicator and cosmologist, and has accepted donations from Elon Musk to investigate the existential risk

Yeah. This is our Austin General Manager with Tegan and Sarah.

It was actually a boy at school who had given me a copy-- well, given Tegan and I a copy of "Siamese Dream."

There were big moments that-- for example, I know, Tegan, you kind of talked about how you felt isolated when Sara and Naomi kind of moved from friendship

And Sara, I know there were similar feelings with you when Tegan started dating Alex.

And so the two of us out in the world, sort of exposed and queer-- and Tegan was living a lot-- to me,

And then also just for myself, I was exposed and had to come out earlier than Tegan.

I had this sense that I was, like, exposing Tegan in the book.

Everyone was sort of like, OK, Tegan, welcome.

Well, it turns out that mice have about 25,000 neurons in the ventral tegmental area, one of the parts of the liking