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Predictive Processing
Researcher and Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas joins us to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?"
Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
"The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived."
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.
Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.
"How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave."
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
Your heart rate reveals your brain activity, which in turn can predict hit songs — and maybe stock performance, as well.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Your brain is trying to show you the future.
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
Nobody actually knows what will come of AI. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that nobody has ever really known anything about the future.
From gene expression to protein design, large language models are creating a suite of powerful genomic tools.
The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly "reconstructed" by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
The researchers consumed a lot of wine while watching 15 seasons of the show.
Whenever you're surprised, there's a good chance that your brain is busy tweaking your memories.