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Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Posted November 1, 2019 • 01:30:06

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute specializing in quantum mechanics, arrow of time, cosmology, and gravitation....

Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

Posted October 27, 2019 • 00:55:34

Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, he dominated the chess world,...

Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics

Posted October 22, 2019 • 01:01:10

Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, futurist, and professor at the City College of New York. He is the author of many fascinating books on the nature...

David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI

Posted October 11, 2019 • 02:24:33

David Ferrucci led the team that built Watson, the IBM question-answering system that beat the top humans in the world at the game of Jeopardy. He is...

Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI

Posted October 3, 2019 • 01:25:09

Gary Marcus is a professor emeritus at NYU, founder of Robust.AI and Geometric Intelligence, the latter is a machine learning company acquired by Uber...