Neurotechnology and the Recovering Brain
1:14:50Why Your Brain Hates Losing
1:27:55The Beautiful Engineering of Us: From Neurons to Collective Minds
1:06:40Crossroads Democracy — A Panel Discussion
1:34:49Transmission Versus Truth: What Will It Take to Make an Al as Smart as a 4-Year-Old?
1:27:20Machining the Ghost: Ideating in the Age of AI
1:29:15Whom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Today
1:28:51Climate Change and Contagion: Complex Crises Past and Present
1:33:25Computing, Life, and Intelligence
1:23:05Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
1:38:21What is Lyfe? Towards a Biology of Context & Complexity
1:11:46Just Machine Learning
1:13:25Animals in Translation: A Conversation
1:28:56Comrades, Let's Optimize! The Surprising Rebirth of the Planned Economy
1:01:26The Future of Artificial Intelligence
1:27:49Taming the Swarm: Towards Collective Artificial Intelligence
1:22:48How the Brain Makes You: Collective Intelligence and Computation by Neural Circuits
1:34:37The Future of Physics
1:22:21AI: Oppression or Innovation?
1:28:36Harnessing Social Capital to Enhance Collective Welfare
1:39:02The Story of Sync
1:35:51Machining the Ghost: Ideating in the Age of AI
This seminar by Dan Rockmore explores the philosophical and practical implications of generative AI systems on human ideation and the long-term trajectory of cognitive augmentation. It contextualizes current large language models within the historical evolution of computational tools.
Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth & SFI Generative AI — from large language models to algorithms that create images — is reshaping how people come up with ideas, for better and for worse. It is the latest in a long history of cognitive tools. But could it also be the killer app that replaces its inventors? Dan Rockmore is the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, and Associate Dean for the Sciences at Dartmouth College. He holds appointments in two academic departments — math and computer science — and is deeply committed to interdisciplinary study. Rockmore directed SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School 2005-2009. His most recent book is the edited volume What are the Arts and Sciences? A Guide for the Curious (UPNE 2018). He is also co-editor of the book Law as Data, published through SFI Press in 2019. In addition to his scientific work he is the co-producer of four documentary films, most recently The Birth of BASIC on the origins of the BASIC programming language. Learn more, follow us on social media and check out our podcasts:
Transmission Versus Truth: What Will It Take to Make an Al as Smart as a 4-Year-Old?
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