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Editing Video Using Machine Learning?
I don't like video editing. Can AI do it for me?
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Google LaMDA AI is Not Sentient - Here's Why
Google LaMDA AI is Not Sentient - Here's Why
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Geoffrey Hinton QUITS Google - What Does It Mean for AI? | an unfiltered chat
Geoffrey Hinton QUITS Google - What Does It Mean for AI? | an unfiltered chat
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American Opinions on Artificial Intelligence | 2019 Edition
This week, we're talking about what the average American thinks of artificial Intelligence, from a recent report from the Center for Partnership on AI.
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Artificial Intelligence in 2019
Happy New Year! This week, we’re talking about my predictions for Artificial Intelligence im 2019. Check out everything that happened in 2018 in Artificial Intelligence in my previous video!
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Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to reading a...
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Understanding Vision
Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector describes how the act of vision is much more complicated than we might naively assume, as 30% of our brains is dedicated to vision processing.
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Sherlock Holmes vs. Stamp Collecting
Astrophysicist Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study, describes his initial lack of interest in astronomy, how a keener sense of how our understanding of physics can be applied to the heavens made him change his mind, and what...
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Philosophers Wanted
Physicist Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University, describes how many advocates of inflationary cosmology now believe that no observational evidence could possibly invalidate their theory, leading Paul to conclude that philosophy should be...
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Fundamental Research or Glorified Engineering?
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert (Oxford and NUS) describes how quantum information science is a combination of theoretical and applied investigations.
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An Exceptional Case
Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector describes her work on studying those with so-called Williams syndrome, in an effort to rigorously examine the plasticity of the brain.
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Characterizing Autism
UCL development psychologist Uta Frith relates her view on what the essence of autism is, describing how the critical feature of autism is a lack of an innate ability to “mentalize” or attribute an inner life to others.
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Transcending Impossible
Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt reveals the different shades of meaning the word "impossible" has for him.
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RNA as a Parasite
Renowned polymath Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study) gives his take on the origin of life.
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Measuring Intelligence
Neuroscientist John Duncan (Cambridge) describes some of the tests associated with Charles Spearman's mysterious "g factor."
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Beyond Solenoids
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his youthful career anxiety and his excitement that science could be about people rather than just assessing magnetic field lines.
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Consuming Theory
Astrophysicist Scott Tremaine (Institute for Advanced Study) reflects upon the contemporary relationship between theory and experiment in fundamental physics.
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A Sad Story
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) recounts his frustration of the "faster than light neutrinos" story that made media headlines in 2011.
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Putting the Pieces Together
Neuroscientist Greg Hickok (UC Irvine) discusses his interests in sensory motor control and auditory processing, with direct implications for better understanding speech generation and much more.
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Topological Quantum Computing
Nobel Laureate Anthony Leggett (Illinois) shares his excitement about the field of topological quantum computing.
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The Process of Science
Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt describes how scientific biographies often give an unrealistic description of how science is really done.
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The Physics of Information
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert, University of Oxford and NUS, describes how the field of quantum information science breathed new life into the foundations of quantum theory, while advances in understanding the physics of information...