Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

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Tech expert Peter Leyden argues that we have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world over the next 25 years.
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The nature of “the mind” is always vast and clear no matter how swamped by information we feel — and leaders can learn to embrace this space.
Two faceless busts face each other. One, representing AI, has digital lines on its face, while the other exudes cognitive meaning with flowers and leaves emerging from its surface.
Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.
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1hr 41mins
"We're awash in lies and misinformation to a degree that was not possible before we got the internet and in particular before we got social media."
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We need more science fiction-inspired thinking in how we approach AI research, argues AI expert Gary Marcus.
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"Gyroscope-on-a-chip" technology could soon enable us to navigate over long distances without GPS.
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AI, anxiety, and emotional intelligence are on learners' minds as they prepare to tackle the new year.
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Conversational AI agents will have a major advantage over human salespeople.
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Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? Philosopher Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds.
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“I'm here to argue that AI is not going to cause a rise in unemployment. I think it's actually increased employment in the United States, not decreased it.”
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Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank highlights an AI-powered pathway towards more productive and more creative teams.
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"Ultimately, the choice rests with each individual: whether to take the convenient route of allowing AI to handle our critical thinking, or to preserve this essential cognitive process for ourselves."
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Philosopher and author Christopher DiCarlo outlines the key areas where AI continues to reshape the labor landscape.
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An approach based on collaboration and empathy can place “connection with people” at the heart of AI’s purpose.
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“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”
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Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.
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"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
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Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
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Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.
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The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.
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The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
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And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
A close-up of the quantum AI processor labeled "Willow" rests on a textured metallic surface, hinting at the mysteries of quantum computation and whispers of parallel universes.
By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That's utter nonsense here.
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“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche's titular character asks in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
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With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.