Transparency in Algorithms for Risk Assessment, Housing, and Pretrial Detention

Explore the impact of algorithms on risk assessment, housing, and pretrial detention, focusing on transparency issues and their societal implications.

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• 1 hour 11 minutes
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Practice Makes Perfect - Learning from Massive Data

Explore how computers learn from massive data to perform tasks like spelling correction and translation, rivaling human capabilities through example-based learning.

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• 1 hour 17 minutes
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The Most Human Human - What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive

Explore the intriguing intersection of AI and human nature, examining what our interactions with machines reveal about our own humanity and consciousness.

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• 1 hour 19 minutes
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Sending Secrets: Security and Cryptography in a Quantum World

Explore cryptography's evolution, from Caesar's cipher to quantum computing challenges. Learn about modern encryption, prime numbers, and the potential impact of quantum computers on cybersecurity.

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• 1 hour 10 minutes
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Complexity: Life, Scale, and Civilization

Explore the nature of complexity across scales, from genes to civilizations, with leading thinkers discussing fundamental questions about the universe, life, and human existence.

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• 1 hour 27 minutes
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How We Came To Be Deluged By Tweets - The Evolution of Information Technology

Explore the evolution of information technologies and their impact on human consciousness, from ancient scripts to modern digital communication, featuring key historical figures.

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• 49 minutes
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Smart Machines and What They Can Still Learn from People

Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus explores AI's progress, challenges, and potential lessons from human cognition, offering insights into the future of machine intelligence.

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• 1 hour 6 minutes
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Blessings of Dimensionality for Gaussian Latent Factor Models

Explore how high-dimensional data analysis can benefit from restricted latent factor overlaps, with applications in brain fMRI and financial markets.

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• 1 hour 6 minutes
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On the Foundations of Info-Metrics

Explore the science of info-metrics for modeling and inferring from limited data, with insights on reasoning under uncertainty and insufficient information.

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• 58 minutes
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Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior

Explore latent thematic structures in document collections and user behavior data. Learn how topic modeling algorithms can enhance predictions and understanding of collection organization.

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• 53 minutes
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Machine Learning and Social Norms - Balancing Fairness and Accuracy

Machine learning's impact on social decisions: Exploring fairness, privacy, and accountability in algorithmic decision-making across various domains. Discusses recent research and challenges in embedding social norms into predictive algorithms.

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• 1 hour 22 minutes
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The Information Edge: Creation in Life, the Economy, and the Universe - Lecture 1

Explore the Information Edge principle and its role in creation across the universe, from cosmic structures to economic systems, with MIT professor Seth Lloyd.

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• 1 hour 30 minutes
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The Information Edge: Collapse and Rebirth in Complex Systems - Lecture 2

Seth Lloyd explores the Information Edge's role in cosmic destruction and rebirth, from black holes to mass extinctions, and how complex systems regain balance after collapse.

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• 1 hour 27 minutes
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - The Future of Biological Intelligence

Explore the future of biological intelligence in a world of distributed machine intelligence and potential cultural mechanisms surpassing human analytical capabilities.

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• 1 hour 32 minutes
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Self-Organization of Strong Connections in the Brain

Uncover how heavy-tailed connectivity in neural networks emerges from simple mechanisms. Explore a model of synaptic self-organization and its implications for understanding brain structure across species.

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• 34 minutes
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