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Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

Posted December 25, 2019 • 01:35:28

Jim Gates (S James Gates Jr.) is a theoretical physicist and professor at Brown University working on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory....

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

Posted December 21, 2019 • 01:19:01

Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at...

Michael Stevens: Vsauce

Posted December 17, 2019 • 00:58:55

Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of the most popular educational YouTube channel in the world, with over 15 million subscribers and over...

Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI

Posted December 14, 2019 • 01:46:15

Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators. This conversation is part of the Artificial...

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI

Posted December 11, 2019 • 01:23:21

Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that’s generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the...