Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and recipient of the prestigious Turing Award, reflects on recent developments in computer networks, and how the internet will be impacted by artificial intelligence in the future. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

uan Lavista Ferres, Chief Scientist and Lab Director at Microsoft, discusses with Babak Parviz, venture partner at Madrona Venture Group, how AI can address a wide range of problems, such as infant mortality, health care, disaster assessments, and war crimes. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Archana Vemulapalli, Head of Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services, discusses developments in artificial intelligence with Bryan Mistele, CEO of transportation analytics provider, INRIX – especially ways in which AI can be employed to make people more productive and efficient, and in the end, make the world a better place. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, physicist, and founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, explains his research to “make the world as computable a place as possible” so that computers can help us understand it. Bob Metcalfe and George Gilder then engage him in a far-ranging discussion of such things as Turing machines, neural networks, and AI-driven natural language models such as Read More ›

Stephen Balaban, CEO of Lambda Labs, a GPU cloud and AI infrastructure provider, discusses the amazing advances in autonomous intelligent agents that can transform the way we do business. He and George Gilder then examine the benefits of this technology as well as its accompanying challenges and threats. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Is there life after death? Can science shed any light on this age-old question? And is the mind simply the workings of the brain, or is it something else? On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid chats with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncology physician and one of the scientists featured in the new Angel Studios feature Read More ›

A singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism. In The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. Multidisciplinary in scope, the book explores areas Read More ›

There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science’s credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging conspiracy theories are rife because of the internet that science created, the scientific demand for empirical evidence and statistical significance leads to data torturing and confirmation bias, Read More ›