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It’s Just an Apparition: Unmasking AI Hype

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March 5, 2025}

A panel of distinguished scholars explores AI’s limitations in achieving true sentience, creativity, and reasoning. Panelists critique predictions of AI surpassing human intelligence, such as Ray Kurzweil’s singularity theory, emphasizing that current AI models rely on statistical patterns rather than genuine understanding. The discussion highlights concerns about AI displacing human jobs while affirming the irreplaceability of human creativity and purpose. The panel also addresses ethical risks and the need for responsible AI development. Walter Myers opens up with a befitting clip from Star Trek, introduces three books of importance to the conversation (The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom, and AI 2041: 10 Visions of Our Future by Kai-Fu …

The Graphene Moment

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February 20, 2025}

Jim Tour highlights a groundbreaking method called flash graphene, a process that converts carbon-based materials, including waste, into valuable graphene at low cost and high efficiency. The technology promises a cost-effective, scalable solution for waste management, resource recovery, and advancing material science. Walt de Heer discusses his work on epitaxial graphene, a material made by growing graphene layers on silicon carbide, which has the potential to replace silicon in electronics particularly in quantum technologies, due to its unique properties. Michael Walshe highlights the critical role of metals in modern technologies, particularly in electric vehicles (EVs), data centers, and military applications. He argues that MTM’s flash dual heating technology promises to …

Agentic AI-Models are NOT All You Need

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February 18, 2025}

Matt McIlwain reflects on the history, significance, and evolving focus of the COSM Technology Summit. He discusses the rapid advancements in applied AI, its transformative potential, and its impact on businesses and capital markets. He raises questions about how AI influences life and investment decisions, emphasizing optimism and adaptability in embracing new models. Matt McIlwain is Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group. Don’t miss out on COSM 2025, November 19-21 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Visit cosm.tech for more information. …

Will We Be Haunted by a Non-Hallucinatory AI?

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February 12, 2025}

Lloyd Watts discusses the significant challenge posed by hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT. While these models often generate fluent and useful responses, they occasionally produce incorrect or misleading information, referred to as “hallucinations.” Watts highlights that this problem, acknowledged by major tech companies like Google, remains unsolved despite their advanced efforts. He argues that hallucinations are inherent to the architecture of LLMs, which rely on deep neural networks and transformer technology. This unresolved issue represents a multi-billion or even trillion-dollar problem, impacting the market valuation of tech giants dependent on AI advancements. Watts takes the audience through the hallucination problem, arguing that …

The New Web Paradigm: Verses vs. OpenAI

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February 5, 2025}

Gabriel Rene discusses how autonomous agents have transformative capacity to handle the scale and complexity of modern problems that exceed human cognitive limits. However, despite advancements, current AI systems, including large language models (LLMs), fall short of true reasoning and reliability, often producing errors and inconsistencies. The session critiques overhyped AI promises, referencing setbacks like Apple’s decision not to invest in OpenAI and recent studies revealing the limitations of LLMs in reasoning tasks. Bob Kelly is a strategic advisor and investor. Gabriel Rene is CEO of VERSES. Lucius Gregory Meredith is President and CEO, F1r3fly.io. Don’t miss out on COSM 2025, November 19-21 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Visit cosm.tech for more information. …

Accelerating the Endless Frontier

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February 3, 2025}

Thomas Lehrman discusses the role of research and development (R&D) in the U.S., framed within historical, current, and potential future contexts. Exploring historical and current successes and challenges, he argues for decentralizing R&D funding by using block grants and encouraging state-level innovation in funding mechanisms, similar to charter school and scholarship tax credit models. Thomas D. Lehrman is Managing Partner of Teamworthy Ventures. Don’t miss out on COSM 2025, November 19-21 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Visit cosm.tech for more information. …

AI and the Cloud

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January 29, 2025}

Bryan Mistele and Swami Sivasubramanian discuss AI’s role in cloud technology and Amazon’s strategic involvement in the field, surveying AI’s utility in such areas as transportation, healthcare, finance, and customer service. Bryan Mistele is CEO and co-founder of transportation analytics company INRIX. Swami Sivasubramanian is VP of Amazon Web Services (AI/Data). …

COSM 2024 in the Words of George Gilder

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November 1, 2024}

COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. For decades, George Gilder has written presciently about the technological revolutions shaping our world, from the microchip in Microcosm, broadband in Telecosm, and the cryptocosm in Life After Google. COSM 2024 will hail the New American Century: exploring a technological transformation and revival of our country and economy as redemptive and cosmic as its renewal of technology. Science popularizer Carl Sagan used to proclaim the insignificance of humans in a universe with as many stars as there are grains of sand on all the world’s beaches. Topological theorist Jennifer Cano responds that there are as many electrons in a single grain of sand as stars in the …

Is Anti-Aging Possible or Even Desirable?

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April 9, 2024}

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 about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

The Quintessential Limits and Possibilities of AI: Three Views

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April 9, 2024}

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 more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. Referenced video about Mona Lisa: https://twitter.com/conradgodfrey/sta… Conrad Godfrey (@conradgodfrey) …

The Graphene Revolution: Innovation at the Nanoscale

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April 9, 2024}

Nannina Gilder leads a panel discussion between Ariel Malik, entrepreneur and investor, Bradley Larschan, CEO of Avadain, and Kevin Wyss, chemist at Schlumberger Limited, on the exciting new developments and applications of graphene — from aviation and space exploration to electronics, renewable energy, and medicine. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

Michael Milken: Seeing the World Through New Eyes

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April 9, 2024}

Michael Milken, Chairman of the Milken Institute and Author of Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health, argues for the importance of access to capital to the future of telecommunications, bioscience, and medicine. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

Hype and Hyper Speed: Our Journey to Becoming AI First

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April 9, 2024}

Russ Whitman, CEO of Launch Consulting, and Kevin McCall, Managing Director of AI at Launch Consulting, share the struggles and celebrations of their journey in creating and operating an AI-first digital consultancy. Learn more about COSM2024 at cosm.tech. …

Life After Capitalism: The Information Theory of Economics

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April 9, 2024}

John Tamny, Forbes Editor and author of Popular Economics, leads a discussion with George Gilder and Dennis Ridley, Professor of Global Logistics at Florida A&M University about the key themes of Gilder’s book Life After Capitalism: wealth is knowledge, growth is learning, information is surprise, and money is time, as well as Gilder’s development of the information theory of economics. Learn more about COSM2024 at cosm.tech. …

Cathie Wood: Converging Technologies Remaking Our World

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April 9, 2024}

Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, reviews trends and investment opportunities in technologies related to public blockchains, multiomic sequencing, energy storage, and robotics, that are tied together by advances in artificial intelligence. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

Carver Mead: COSM 2023 Day 2 Closing Remarks

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April 9, 2024}

Carver Mead, computer pioneer and 2022 Kyoto Prize recipient, reflects on Day 2 of COSM 2023, touching upon AI as a great tool and the ramifications of quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle on the ability to understand cause and effect. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

Silicon Valley Decentralized: Following Capital Investment

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April 9, 2024}

Cole Smead, CEO of Smead Capital Management leads a panel discussion with Matt McIlwain, Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, Jack Selby, Managing Partner of AZ-VC, and Matt Norby, Managing Partner of Flume Ventures about access to capital, what the post-pandemic world looks like for capital management firms, and how artificial intelligence impacts venture capital markets. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

Reasonable Energy: Pragmatic Solutions to Our Energy Needs

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April 9, 2024}

Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute, leads a discussion with Todd Myers, Director of the Washington Policy Center’s Center for the Environment, and Michael Shellenberger, Author of Apocalypse Never, about reasonable and pragmatic approaches to meeting future energy needs. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

Carver Mead: COSM 2023 Closing Remarks

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April 9, 2024}

Carver Mead, computer pioneer and 2022 Kyoto Prize recipient, reflects on COSM 2023, noting the impact one person can have in changing the course of history. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …

What are the Implications of an AI Transportation Future?

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April 9, 2024}

Bryan Mistele, CEO of INRIX, leads a panel discussion with Rich Pople, Director of General Motors’ AI and ML Center, Dorothy Li, Founder of Luminent AI, and Mark Masongsong, Co-Founder and CEO of Urbanlogiq in which they explore the opportunities and challenges in applying AI to revolutionize automobile transportation. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech. …