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Andy Kessler- The Economics and Future of AI

Andy Kessler: The Economics and Future of AI

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.

Revisiting Metcalfe’s Law- Connectivity in the Age of AI

Revisiting Metcalfe’s Law

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.

AI for Good- Using AI to Address Complex Global Challenges

AI for Good

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.

Is the Future of AI Open or Closed (Source)_

Is the Future of AI Open or Closed (Source)?

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.

Does ChatGPT Think_ Stephen Wolfram with Bob Metcalfe and George Gilder

Does ChatGPT Think? Stephen Wolfram with Bob Metcalfe and George Gilder

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 ›

Keri Ingraham - Politically Unstable Podcast - April 2024

Keri D. Ingraham Discusses Education Innovation & School Choice on the Politically Unstable Podcast

There are pockets of amazing innovation happening around our country in K-12 education, but they are far too rare. One example of an innovative high school is West Michigan Aviation Academy in Grand Rapids. The school is in its 14th year, but few people know about it nationally. It should be a national headline because it is a model that deserves replication. Read More ›
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Living on the Edge with Stephen Balaban

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.

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The U.S. Has No Choice but to Undertake Radical Economic Change

Burdened with $34.5 trillion in national debt that is currently growing by $1 trillion every 100 days, the U.S. economy is headed for disaster. It falls on the next administration to change that trajectory while also introducing policies that increase and broaden economic growth and wealth creation for everyone. Read More ›
C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design with John West (2024 Dallas Conf. on Science & Faith)

C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design with John West (2024 Dallas Conf. on Science & Faith)

What were C.S. Lewis’s real views on evolution and intelligent design? Dr. John West, Vice President of Discovery Institute, explores this topic in this lecture from the 2024 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith sponsored by Discovery Institute. Dr. West is editor of The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society and co-editor of The C.S. Lewis Readers’ Read More ›

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What Comes after Transgender? Doctor Amputates Man’s Healthy Fingers

I have long predicted that normalizing transgender surgeries would be followed eventually by doctors intentionally disabling patients with Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). Well, here it comes. A doctor in Quebec "treated" a BIID patient by amputating two of his healthy fingers. Read More ›