Information Processing

  This lecture covers DNA and the origin of life on Earth, the Fermi Paradox (is there alien life?), AI and its implications for the Simulat...

Steve and Corey speak with Ted Chiang about his recent story collection Exhalation and his inaugural essay for the New York Times series, O...

Show Page    YouTube Channel Our plan is to release new episodes on Thursdays, at a rate of one every week or two. We've tried ...

Iain McGilchrist , author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World , in conversation with Jor...

Another great post from Dom. Once something has become widely understood, it is difficult to recreate or fully grasp the mindset that prev...

This NYTimes Magazine article describes the implementation of a new deep neural net version of Google Translate. The previous version us...

In October, I wrote AI, Westworld, and Electric Sheep : I'm holding off on this in favor of a big binge watch. Certain AI-related ...

"I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate...

At the bookstore today I spent some time looking at  Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking , Daniel Dennett 's new book. I highly...

Albert Einstein: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors t...

Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human , tells interviewer Leonard Lopate what it's like to be a participant in the Loebner Pr...

To find a 90 minute podcast of this gathering, which is remarkable for the quality of the speeches given in honor of philosopher John Searle...

The Times has an article about Jeff Bezos' Mechanical Turk project, which lets machines outsource certain tasks to humans. (The orgina...