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Timothy Nguyen
AI researcher at DeepMind and host of The Cartesian Cafe podcast. Previously an academic mathematical physicist working in gauge theory and quantum field theory.
AI researcher at DeepMind and host of The Cartesian Cafe podcast. Previously an academic mathematical physicist working in gauge theory and quantum field theory.
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What Machines Can't Do
Will computers ever match human intelligence?
Corruption and Climate Change
Piers Corbyn | We misunderstood climate change
Humans versus Nature
Are humans part of nature or a hostile enemy?
Blind Data
The secrets behind compatibility science
March of the Machines
Is AI a threat to mankind?
The World in Our Hands
Rationality and climate change
The Puzzle of Progress
Has technology brought us the good life?
The Dark Side of Environmentalism
Are we just trying to repent of our consumerism?
Mind Machines
The future of AI
James Lovelock: Creativity in Science & Gaia Theory
The life of a lone scientist
What We Don't Know About CO2
The science of climate change
Can We Control AI?
Nigel Shadbolt | The right questions to ask on AI
Is Digital Thinking Different?
The internet revolution & the human brain
Climate Change and Britain’s Future
Huhne predicts wars and violence
How to Thrive in a Digital Age
Creative Robots
How to make an inventive bot
The Habits of Nature
Do natural laws evolve over time?
Genes, Memes and Temes
The Myth of Scarcity
What is the future of sustainable farming?
The Fifth Crime
Designing Life
Nine Million Steps in Solitude
What it’s like to walk the Amazon
Staying Human in Cyberspace
Mindfulness in cyberspace
The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine
Global Overhaul
Rupert Read | Why going green matters
Future Storm
Where will lightning strike next?
Why Trolls Matter
The threat to 'polite' society
Rise of the Machines
AI: a science fiction fantasy?
My Avatar, Myself
How to extend yourself into the virtual
Touching Cyberspace
Back to the physical
How volcanoes could change the world
The power and promise of geoengineering
Technology in trouble
Getting to grips with the future of technology
The real risks of AI
A decade on and a decade to go
Cities of the future
What is the architecture of a sustainable world?
How to talk about climate change
Emotionally engaging in the crisis
Scott Aaronson on consciousness and AI safety
Scott Aaronson on consciousness and AI safety
AI and the future of the mind
Is it possible that we'll merge with AI?
The quantum hoax
The science vs. the hype
Electric brains
A journey through 'wireheading'
Humans and nature are one
The history, values, and future of a Green Party
The future is quantum AI
When physics meets technology
The smartphone society
Health, wealth and power in the digital age
The truth about quantum computing
Beyond the hype
Nature: friend or foe?
Does nature always know best?
The quantum age
Curt Jaimungal interviews Michio Kaku
The technology trap
Tech giants and our obsessive behaviour
The values of AI
Should we let AI make decisions for us?
The psychology of AI
An interview with Isabel Millar
Extinction and Renewal
Are we facing the Sixth Great Mass Extinction?
AI, Google, and the fight for culture with Timothy Nguyen
Mathematics vs Art
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Don't believe the dark matter hype
Hints of a new fundamental force
Is Einstein still right?
The Philosophical Problems of Cosmology
Physics needs an aesthetic revolution
Escaping cosmology’s failing paradigm
Physics forgets we are part of reality
We know how time will end, but not how it started
Reality is just a quantum wave function
The power of the unreal in scientific discovery
Rewriting the history of the Universe
The Beauty of Experiments Matters
The many meanings of Schrödinger's cat
Einstein and why the block universe is a mistake
The most complex thing in the universe
The new threat to the Standard Model
Symmetry is a Guide to Reality
We still don't understand the measurement problem
The Delusions of Cosmology
The multiverse under fire
Lee Smolin: the laws of the universe are changing
Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
The future is radically open
Black holes could challenge Relativity
Consciousness is irrelevant to Quantum Mechanics
Time is the increase of order, not disorder
Quantum mechanics and our part in creating reality
Quantum Theory and Common Sense: It's Complicated
The Big Bang didn't happen
James Webb images were made to look beautiful