Less BS, More Facts, Some Opinions
Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, explores the long history of inequality – from the Stone Age onwards – and asks whether we are on the brink of creating a huge “economically useless” underclass, unable to keep up with enhanced humans, the owners of increasingly valuable data and, eventually, artificial intelligence.
April 2017
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Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
Recorded, Nov 22, 2017.
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Recorded, 10 November 2017
A growing sum of company and investment capital is making its way into the study of aging with the aim not only of extending healthspan -but also of studying the link between the processes of aging with a view to halting the onset of and the many diseases which afflict old age to include Alzheimer’s, heart disease and chronic diseases such as diabetes.
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In the dawning world of artificial intelligence, who is the pawn and who is the king?
Garry Kasparov is a Russian, chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time.
May 16, 2017
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Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a father of AI, explains how neural networks revolutionised Google’s translation services, and why we might one day be able to recreate consciousness in silicon.
Geoffrey Hinton is a British cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. As of 2015 he divides his time working for Google and University of Toronto.
Artificial intelligence is already transforming everything from medicine to music. Manuela Saragosa speaks to three pioneers of this latest industrial revolution and asks what will be left for us humans to do?
Ron Gutman of HealthTap introduces Manuela to the latest physician to join their team – Doctor AI. And Ed Newton-Rex, co-founder of music start-up Jukedeck, takes her through his playlist – which was entirely composed by his computer.
May, 2017
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Carl Sagan’s chosen discs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb3O_2WT2VVu8X-BuofgqRFzoT3jgQYWn
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
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Jennifer Doudna’s research has transformed biology. And this is not an understatement. Her work has given us the tools to edit genes more precisely than ever before.
Her scientific career began with work to understand the actions of RNA, part of the machinery of every cell. But, after a meeting in 2005 with a colleague at the University of California, Berkeley, where Jennifer is currently a professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology, she changed her direction of research. Through collaborations all over the world she’s since developed the gene editing system called CRISPR/cas9. She’s been awarded multiple prizes for her work. The CRISPR/cas9 system has created opportunities that could be used for both for good and for ill. Unlike many scientists who leave the ethical implications of their research to others, Jennifer Doudna has decided to engage with her critics. She talks to Jim al-Khalili about her decision to do this.
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In 2016, Russ Salakhutdinov joined Apple as its director of AI research. He specializes in deep learning, probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization.
October 26th, 2017
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Andrew McAfee, an MIT scientist, studies how technological progress changes business, the economy, and society. His latest book, written with Erik Brynjolfsson, is Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. He is the cofounder of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
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December 27th, 2017
We live in an age of incredible technological innovation. Innovation that has the potential to do great good or great harm to society.
Prince Harry, sat down with one of the most celebrated figures in Artificial Intelligence, Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, to discuss the responsibility that big tech firms have to ensure that change to society is positive.
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