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Shh...A Special Offer for Summit 2024 Attendees
Announcing our 2025 Summit—with a special offer for 2024 Summit attendees.
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Conversations
Frank Rose: Storytelling in a Data-Driven World
An interview with Frank Rose about his book Storytelling in a Data-Driven World
Conversations
Ben Shneiderman: Human-Centered AI
An interview with Ben Shneiderman about his book Human-Centered AI.
Conversations
Julio Mario Ottino: The Nexus
An interview with Julio Mario Ottino about his book The Nexus.
Conversations
Mark Nitzberg: Human-Compatible AI
In this episode, we talk with Mark Nitzberg who is Executive Director of CHAI or the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI and head of strategic outreach for Berkeley AI Research.
Conversations
Barbara Tversky: Spatial Cognition
In this episode, we talk with Barbara Tversky about spatial thinking as the foundation of abstract thought, the linearity of spaces and perception of distances, putting thought into the world, and the creative power of sketching.
Conversations
Megan Brown: Data Literacy
In this episode, we talk with Megan Brown, the Director of Data Science for Starbucks’ Global Center of Excellence.
Conversations
Peter Sterling: Decision Evolution
In this episode, we talk with Peter Sterling, the author of What is Health. Peter caught our attention with his concise and understandable description of how evolution, by optimizing for energy efficiency, has built human brains.
Our Ideas
Making better decisions is one way to get paid more
Making a good decision implies that we have some idea of what’s true. But we do not have infinite data inputs or processing capacity. We are limited by our lifetimes.
Our Ideas
Caring machines vs sociopaths
Caring machines may be the only way to scale empathy across our species.
Our Ideas
Making better decisions means banishing so-so AI
Now that more machine learning-based AI has been deployed in more places, human skills are being replaced in finer slices with new automation technologies. What has been observed in traditional blue collar work is that not all AI is good enough to increase the value of the output.
Conversations
Stephen Fleming: Metacognition
In this episode, we talk with Stephen Fleming, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, about his book, Know Thyself.