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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
The AI enigma
Is artificial intelligence a threat?
Who's afraid of the big, bad data?
Big data as a force for good
Profit, planet, and pretence
Can capitalism solve the climate crisis?
Science is broken
An interview with Helen Czerski
Mind over matter
The potential of mind-computer interface technology
The consciousness test
Is AI sentient?
The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous
The potential and the threat of data
How oceans shaped the world
Saving the heart of our planet
Zanna Clay | In-depth Interview
On animal empathy, evolution, and beyond
AI, emotions and the tech evolution
Building a better world around AI
The dawn of machine consciousness with Joscha Bach
The dream and danger of AI
How to tame AI
How to live forever
Radical life extension' technology
Science alone won't solve climate change
Tackling the climate emergency
Capitalism and the climate
Our planet and the economy
AI and the end of humanity
Does AI change what it means to be human?
Digital Apes
Technology as a force for good
The next environmental crisis
Are our current solutions just a short term fix?
AI and the story of the universe
How AI will help us make scientific discoveries
How volcanoes could change the world
The power and promise of geoengineering
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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