Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 6: AI’s changing seasons
Guest: Melanie Mitchell, Resident Professor, Santa Fe Institute Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: M...
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?
Guests: Erica Cartmill, Professor, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington Ellie Pavlick, Assistant Professor, Co...
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 4: Babies vs Machines
Guests: Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychological and B...
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?
Guests: Tomer Ullman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, De...
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
Guests: Evelina Fedorenko, Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain R...
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 1: What is Intelligence
Guests: Alison Gopnik, SFI External Faculty; Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berk...
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Right now, AI is having a moment — and it’s not the first time grand predictions about the potential of machines are being made. But, what d...
Physics of Life, Ep 6: Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
Guests: Heather Graham, Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Katherine Mon...
Physics of Life, Ep 5: How human history shapes scientific inquiry
Guests: David Krakauer, President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute Sean Carroll, External Profes...
Physics of Life, Ep 4: The physics of collectives
Guests: Melanie Moses, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Biology at Uni...
Physics of Life, Ep 3: Why is life so diverse?
Guests: Brian Enquist, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Arizona...
Physics of Life, Ep 2: How do we identify life?
Guests: Ricard Solé , External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Head of the Complex Systems Lab at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Sara Walker...
Physics of Life, Ep 1: What can physics tell us about ourselves?
Guests: Vijay Balasubramanian , External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics at the University of...
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Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park
Episode Title and Show Notes: 106 - Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic Park Welcome to Complexity, th...
Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology
One way of looking at the world reveals it as an interference pattern of dynamic, ever-changing links — relationships that grow and break in...
Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self
For centuries, Medieval life in Europe meant a world determined and prescribed by church and royalty. The social sphere was very much a pyra...
Carlos Gershenson on Balance, Criticality, Antifragility, and The Philosophy of Complex Systems
How do we get a handle on complex systems thinking? What are the implications of this science for philosophy, and where does philosophical t...
Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick
And now for something completely different! Last October, The Santa Fe Institute held its third InterPlanetary Festival at SITE Santa Fe, ce...
Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)
There are maps, and there are territories, and humans frequently confuse the two. No matter how insistently this point has been made by cogn...