Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

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3 min
If the people controlling AI are biased, the output will also be. Free speech scholar Jacob Mchangama makes the case for completely open-source AI.
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15 min
"We're living in an extraordinary moment in history. We are at a moment here in 2025 where we have world historic game-changing technologies now starting to scale."
25 min
“Deep down the natural endpoint of this whole goal of looking for planets is to answer the question: are we alone?”
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1 min
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
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13 min
“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”
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1 min
“An equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would allow us to, quote, 'Read the mind of God.'”
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10 min
Today’s technologist archetypes share a blind spot. Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute explains why “philosophy is essential” when building planetary-scale technology.
Cosmos Institute