Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

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AI is not a rupture in history, but a continuation of intelligence emerging where information becomes systematically arranged.
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Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.
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"Rationalism is the idea that, in order to truly know something, you have to be able to describe it explicitly."
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Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.
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Why we should balance innovation with stewardship — while reframing the “techno-optimists versus doomers” polarization.
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Practical guidance for navigating AI’s role in modern learning organizations.
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"The process of systematizing, correcting errors, finding approximations, and making them work as civil systems that was what really drove me to start looking at human calculation and what was the foundation that it laid for the modern computer age."
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AI expert and insitro CEO Daphne Koller shares her insights about developing the vision and strategy needed to optimize your enterprise AI deployments.
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Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
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AI will shape the future of work, but human leadership will decide whether that future is good — and happiness should be the touchstone.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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The case for why AI systems are not merely "stochastic parrots."
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Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left -- and has a big opportunity ahead.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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The Department of Energy's newest mission seeks to make a unified AI platform across all national labs. Will it help US science, or kill it?
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As technology advances, more opportunities for cheating arise. Large language models aren't posing a new problem; they're how students cheat themselves.
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“The next revolution will be quantum computers that will make the digital computer look like an abacus.”
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“The problem is in our information. Humans, yes, we are generally good and wise, but if you give good people bad information, they make bad decisions.”
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In “Rewiring Democracy,” Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore how AI could strengthen democracy or undermine it.
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As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
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The HuffPost co-founder is now focusing on AI and health — but she’s keeping an eye on agency and human nature.
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Researcher and Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas joins us to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?"
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Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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“Until very recently, I thought I would die with the same genome that I was born with.”
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55mins
“Old systems of the past are collapsing, and new systems of the future are still to be born. I call this moment the great progression.”
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57mins
“What's really interesting about neural networks is the way that they think or the way that they operate is a lot like human intuition”