Technology

Walter Myers III, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, moderates a discussion on AI with William Dembski, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute; Robert Marks, Director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence; and George Montañez, Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd. They offer views on the limits and possibilities of AI versus that of the human mind. Learn Read More ›

Matt Scholz, CEO of Oisin Biotechnologies, leads a discussion with Vered Caplan, CEO of Orgenesis, and Elena Sergeeva, Neuroscientist at Tufts and Harvard and co-founder of Tiamat Labs, about anti-aging biotechnologies — how genetic reprogramming of cells could negate the effects of aging and even allow a person to stay in perfect health indefinitely, essentially making death elective. Learn more Read More ›

Ray Kurzweil, computer pioneer and futurist, presents a hopeful view of what AI can achieve in the future in a wide array of fields, from language translation to medicine, energy, education, transportation, and farming. He argues that by 2029, AI will achieve human level intelligence and that “most diligent people” will reach “longevity escape velocity,” (the ability to add time Read More ›

Andy Kessler, columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s Inside View, discusses how business models have evolved with emerging computer technologies and considers what future models for generative AI programs might look like. He and George Gilder then discuss intellectual property and liability issues related to AI. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

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.