COMPLEXITY Podcast
1) Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self
2) Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 6: AI’s changing seasons
In the final episode of the season, Abha sits down with Melanie to hear her perspective. They chat about Melanie’s career and research with Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. They ...Show More
3) Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?
When it comes to assessing intelligence, people have all kinds of tests — the SAT, IQ tests, and so on. There’s controversy over how fairly these tests really measure human intelligence, but at the ve...Show More
4) Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 4: Babies vs Machines
There’s an argument to be made that if we train AI systems to learn the way babies do, we’ll get them closer to human-like intelligence. But how our own learning development functions in babyhood is s...Show More
5) Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: Episode 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?
Large language models, like ChatGPT and Claude, have remarkably coherent communication skills. Yet, what this says about their “intelligence” isn’t clear. Is it possible that they could arrive at the...Show More
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: Episode 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?
45:05 | Oct 23rd, 2024
6) Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
Complex language is unique to the human species. It’s part of how we evolved, the backbone of our societies, and one of the primary ways we judge others’ intellect. Is it our intelligence that leads t...Show More
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
37:44 | Oct 9th, 2024
7) Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 1: What is Intelligence
Depending on whom you ask, artificial intelligence is either going to solve all humanity’s problems, or it’s going to kill us. Business leaders are getting ready for it to “disrupt” entire industries,...Show More
8) Trailer for The Nature of Intelligence
Right now, AI is having a moment — and it’s not the first time grand predictions about the potential of machines are being made. But, what does it really mean to say something like ChatGPT is “intelli...Show More
9) Multiple worlds, containing multitudes
In the final episode of this season, we hear from a NASA researcher whose expertise spans from studying samples in deep, untouched regions of our planet all the way to organic chemistry happening in s...Show More
10) How human history shapes scientific inquiry
In this episode, we examine how the course of human history has shaped our scientific knowledge, why the physics community prioritizes some questions over others, and why progress in complex systems r...Show More