David Eagleman

Neuroscientist at Stanford, NYT bestselling author, Writer/host of The Brain. #1 Science Podcast: Inner Cosmos.

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Why might AI benchmarks fall short? Join me this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) as we explore 'alien' intelligences.
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Audio short story: Listen to Jarvis Cocker read "Descent of Species" from SUM.

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How do we know whether AI gets the right answer bc it (a) understands, (b) has seen the question before, or (c) is just interpolating? Join me this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) as we explore 'alien' intelligences.
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Can AI nail an answer but really not understand what it's doing? What the difference between performance and competence? Join Inner Cosmos this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) as we explore 'alien' intelligences.
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Why do we dream? Why do we experience a fraction of our lives inside an internal, delusory picture show? My former student @DrDonVaughn and I have built a new framework to answer these old questions. Read the summary in Time Magazine.

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Why might a self-driving car slam on the brakes, & what does this have to do with billboards, T-shirts, and common sense? Join me this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) as we explore intelligence in babies, animals, and AI.
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What do aliens and babies have in common with AI? Join Inner Cosmos this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1), a professor at the Santa Fe Institute who’s working to bridge AI and cognitive science.
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Scientists Learn How to Teach Synesthesia (Let the Weirdness Begin) -- via @bigthink

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AI has been smashing benchmarks, but are those the right tests? How would we know if it's actually intelligent or getting the right answers for the wrong reasons? Join this week with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1).
https://t.co/Rn5q7NBRfQ

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"As we navigate a world that is atomised by social media, riven by partisanship and encircled with nuclear warheads, it becomes critical to recognise and manage the pitfalls of our psychology." See my article in the Economist.

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Will the alphabet look totally different to our descendants? Learn about the fungibility of letters as we dive into writing & the brain this week with linguist Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) .
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Will AI freeze the continued innovation of language, words, & spellings? Join Inner Cosmos this week with linguist Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) as we uncover the connections between letters, history, & the brain.
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan

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What's the relationship between spelling and technology? Join Inner Cosmos this week with linguist Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) as we uncover the connections between the alphabet, history, & the brain.
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If we were to clean up English spelling, would we lose clues to our history? Join Inner Cosmos this week with linguist Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) as we uncover the connections between letters, history, & the brain.
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Scientists have a responsibility to get their findings to the public - article from Rice School of Business.

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What does the letter "double U" have to do with the fall of Rome? Join Inner Cosmos this week with linguist Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) as we uncover the connections between letters, history, and the brain.
https://t.co/sxup65NXxG

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What ghosts of the past can we see in the letters of our alphabet? Find out today from linguist Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) (author of a new book on the alphabet) as we dive deep into the 26 symbols that capture our universe.
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New ideas don't come from muses or lightning strikes; instead, every idea has a genealogy. What happens in the brain to remix the world that comes to us?

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