POLYTHETICS AND THE BOEING 737 MAX In 2018, assisted by a Pentagon missing in action (MIA) team from Kaiserslauten, I excavated the remains of a WWII US bomber shot down near the village of A...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/timothy_taylor-polythetics-and-the-boeing-737-max
I've spent several decades creating a computational language that aims to give a precise symbolic representation for computational thinking, suitable for use by both humans and machines. I'm i...
https://www.edge.org/video/mining-the-computational-universe
MINING THE COMPUTATIONAL UNIVERSE STEPHEN WOLFRAM: I thought I would talk about my current thinking about computation and our interaction with it. The first question is, how common is computat...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-mining-the-computational-universe
Economic failures cause us serious problems. We need to build simulations of the economy at a much more fine-grained level that take advantage of all the data that computer technologies and the ...
HOW TECHNOLOGY CHANGES OUR CONCEPT OF THE SELF When people talk about abstract ideas, they’re referring to something very concrete, and when I can find a way to address something that’s ver...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/peter_galison-how-technology-changes-our-concept-of-the-self
The general project that I’m working on is about the self and technology—what we understand by the self and how it’s changed over time. My sense is that the self is not a universal and pure...
https://www.edge.org/video/how-technology-changes-our-concept-of-the-self
THE SPACE OF POSSIBLE MINDS It's interesting to think about the state of artificial intelligence research today, especially in the context of many decades of cycles of hype and disappointment. ...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/murray_shanahan-the-space-of-possible-minds
Aaron Sloman, the British philosopher, has this great phrase: the space of possible minds. The idea is that the space of possible minds encompasses not only the biological minds that have arise...
COLLECTIVE AWARENESS Economic failures cause us serious problems. We need to build simulations of the economy at a much more fine-grained level that take advantage of all the data that compute...
https://www.edge.org/conversation/j_doyne_farmer-don_ross-collective-awareness
Until fairly recently, the artificial intelligence didn’t learn. To create a machine that learns to think more efficiently was a big challenge. In the same sense, one of the things that I wonde...