Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

What separates fluency from understanding? Léon Bottou joins Vasant Dhar in Episode 103, Brave New World, to explore the deep question at the heart of AI.
Useful Resources:

1. Léon Bottou
2. Léon Bottou - The Fiction Machine
3. Hopfield Network in AI
4. Yann LeCun
5. J. L. McClelland, D.E. Rumelhart and G.E. Hinton - The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing
6. Claude Shannon - Entropy and Redundancy in English
7. Marvin Minsky - Music, Mind and Meaning
8. Stafford Beer
9. Navier-Stokes Equations
10. Terry Sejnowski - Parallel Networks that Learn to Pronounce English Text
11. Christopher D. Manning
12. Brave New World Episode 58: Sam Bowman on ChatGPT & Controlling AI
13. De Morgan's laws
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AI is reshaping national power and governance. Drawing on India's digital public infrastructure, Jayant Sinha and Vasant Dhar discuss innovation and sovereignty over compute, data consent and privacy by design in Episode 103 of Brave New World.

Useful Resources:

1. Jayant Sinha
2. Eversource Capital
3. India's Green Startups: Jayant Sinha and Sandeep Bhammer
4. Nandan Nilekani
5. Brave New World Episode 15: Nandan Nilekani on an Egalitarian Internet
6. Brave New World Episode 50: Pramod Varma on India's Digital Empowerment
7. iSpirit
8. Unique Identification Authority Of India
9. Unified Payments Interface
10. M-Pesa
11. DigiYatra.
12. Australia has banned social media for kids under 16.
13. Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture, DEPA
14. Paul Gruenwald, Global Chief Economist, S&P Global
15. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson.
16. Neeraj Chopra
17. Thinking with Machines, The Brave New World of AI: Vasant Dhar
18. Battery Smart
19. Nutrifresh
20. Zero Cow
21. RevFin
22. Upside Foods
23. Brave New World Episode 93: Uma Valeti on Cultivating Meat
24. Brave New World Episode 101: Deepak Chopra On Consciousness and Reality
25. Geoffrey Hinton
26. Asimov's Laws
27. Jonathan Haidt
28. The Anxious Generation: Jonathan Haidt
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Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, one of the most renowned computational scientists in the world, joins Vasant Dhar in Episode 102 of Brave New World to discuss the state and development of human-centric AI.
Useful Resources:
1. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland.
2. Stanford Research Institute.
3. MIT Media Lab.
4. Distributed Computing, Blockchain.
5. Nature Magazine, Nature Machine Intelligence.
6. The Hard Problem Of Consciousness.
7. Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution In The Age Of AI: Alex Pentland.
8. Brave New World Episode 101: Deepak Chopra On Consciousness and Reality.
9. Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being - Deepak Chopra.
10. Awakening: The Path to Freedom and Enlightenment - Deepak Chopra.
11. Sharing The Wisdom Of Time: Pope Francis.
12. UN, Sustainable Development Goals.
13. Jonathan Haidt.
14. Brave New World Episode 08: Jonathan Haidt, How Social Media Threatens Society.
15. Daniel Kahneman, Behavioural Economics.
16. Brave New World Episode 21: Daniel Kahneman, How Noise Hampers Judgement.
17. Loyal Agents.
18. Loyal Agents Consumer Reports
19. EU - AI Act.
20. Duty Of Care.
21. Internet Engineering Task Force.
22. World Trade Organisation.
 
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Useful Resources:

1. Deepak Chopra
2. Donald D. Hoffman
3. Awakening: The Path to Freedom and Enlightenment - Deepak Chopra
4. Seymour Reichlin
5. Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Wellbeing - Deepak Chopra
6. The Hard Problem Of Consciousness
7. Rosalyn Yalow
8. Neuropeptides
9. Psychoneuroimmunology
10. Candace Pert
11. Molecules of Emotion - Candace Pert
12. Richard Dawkins
13. The Physics of Consciousness - Richard Dawkins & Brian Greene
14. Naïve realism
15. Stephen Hawking
16. Qualia
17. Panpsychism
18. Advaita Vedanta
19. Sufism
20. What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches -  Erwin Schrodinger
21. Brave New World Episode 94: Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness.
22. Wayne Dyer
23. Ludwig Wittgenstein
24. Jill Bolte Taylor
25. My Stroke Of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
26. TED - My stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor
27. Scott Galloway
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Episode 100 of Brave New World features David Ko, CEO of Calm, a digital health company focused on mental wellness and mindfulness. From experiencing panic attacks as a teenager to being the driving force behind Calm, his journey is an inspiring exploration of resilience, purpose, and the intersection of vulnerability and innovation.
Useful Resources:

1. David Ko, CEO of Calm
2. Recharge: Boosting Your Mental Battery, One Conversation at a Time - David Ko
3. Jonathan Haidt
4. Brave New World Episode 08: How Social Media Threatens Society
5. Severance
6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
7. Recharge with David Ko


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