Category: Data-Labor-Technology Videos

Recorded: March 27th, 2018
The largest GPU ever built
NVIDIA DGX-2
2 PetaFLOPS
10kW
350lbs
Presented by CEO Jensen Huang at GTC 2018
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February 27th, 2018
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
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Ray Kurzweil is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Recorded in 2006

Aside from futurism, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.

Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.
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How did time and space begin? From the age of ten, Sean Carroll has wanted to know. He first read about the big bang model of the universe as a child. Later, he turned down two job offers from Stephen Hawking.

The big bang model of the universe is well established but, as Sean readily admits, the big bang itself remains a mystery. In the beginning, Sean applied Einstein’s theories of relativity to this problem.

But mid-career and painfully aware that trying to out Einstein Einstein was a tough call, he turned his attention from the very big to the very small.
Interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili
Feb 2017
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