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  • Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 6: AI’s changing seasons

    December 4, 2024 · 44 min

    Guest:  Melanie Mitchell, Resident Professor, Santa Fe InstituteHosts: Abha Eli Phoboo Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano Follow us on: Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn  • Bluesky More…

  • Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?

    November 20, 2024 · 48 min

    Guests:  Erica Cartmill, Professor, Anthropology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University BloomingtonEllie Pavlick, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Linguistics, Brown UniversityHosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Melanie Mitchell Producer…

  • Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 4: Babies vs Machines

    November 6, 2024 · 39 min

    Guests:  Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University BloomingtonMichael Frank, Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of…

  • Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 3: What kind of intelligence is an LLM?

    October 23, 2024 · 45 min

    Guests:  Tomer Ullman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard UniversityMurray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Department of Computing, Imperial College London; Principal Research Scientist, Google DeepMindHosts…

  • Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought

    October 9, 2024 · 38 min

    Guests:  Evelina Fedorenko, Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MITSteve Piantadosi, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Head of Computation…

  • Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 1: What is Intelligence

    September 25, 2024 · 43 min

    Guests:  Alison Gopnik, SFI External Faculty; Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley; Member of Berkeley AI Research GroupJohn Krakauer, SFI External Faculty; John C. Malone…

  • Trailer for The Nature of Intelligence

    September 19, 2024 · 3 min

    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 “intelligent”? What exactly is intelligence? In…

  • Physics of Life, Ep 6: Multiple worlds, containing multitudes

    April 10, 2024 · 41 min

    Guests:  Heather Graham, Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterHosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Katherine Moncure Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano Additional sound credits: Digifish music; “Determination…