Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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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Joel Roberts, former host of a prime-time talk show on KABC Radio, Los Angeles, takes over hosting duties to talk Vasant Dhar about his upcoming book and Roberts' own scepticism regarding all things AI.
Useful Resources:

1. Joel Roberts.
2. Thinking With Machines, The Brave New World With AI - Vasant Dhar
3. AI and The Paper Clip Problem.
4. Dr. Jules White.
5. Geoffrey Hinton.
6. Yuval Noah Harari.
7. Augmented Intelligence - The Future of Generative AI and Computing.
8. How The Mind Works - Steven Pinker
9. Brave New World Episode 94: Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness.
10. Backpropagation
11. Brave New World Episode 98: There's no I in AI, Ben Shneiderman on The Evolution and State of Artificial Intelligence.
12. Brave New World Episode 97: Alex Wiltschko on Digitizing Scent.
13. Brave New World Episode 81: Alex Wiltschko on The Sense Of Smell.
14. Joy Milne.
15. Brave New World Episode 89: Missy Cummings on Making AI Safe.
16. TEDx Talk - When Should We Trust Machines: Vasant Dhar.
17. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma: Mustafa Suleyman.
18.  Luis Elizondo.



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Useful Resources:

1. Ben Shneiderman, Professor Emeritus, University Of Maryland.
2. Richard Hamming and Hamming Codes.
3. Human Centered AI - Ben Shneiderman.
4. Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon.
5. Raj Reddy and the Turing Award.
6. Doug Engelbart.
7. Alan Kay.
8. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
9. Software psychology: Human factors in computer and information systems - Ben Shneiderman.
10. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction - Ben Shneiderman.
11. Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Languages - Ben Shneiderman.
12. Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence - Marvin Minsky.
13. Herbert Gelernter.
14. Computers And Thought - Edward A Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman.
15. Lewis Mumford.
15. Technics and Civilization - Lewis Mumford.
16. Buckminster Fuller.
17. Marshall McLuhan.
18. Roger Shank.
19. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Jonathan Haidt.
20. John C. Thomas, IBM.
21. Yousuf Karsh, photographer.
22. Gary Marcus, professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU.
23. Geoffrey Hinton.
24. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
25. There Is No A.I. - Jaron Lanier.
26. Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness - Episode 94 of Brave New World.
27. A 'White-Collar Blood Bath' Doesn't Have to Be Our Fate - Tim Wu
28. Information Management: A Proposal - Tim Berners-Lee
29. Is AI-assisted coding overhyped? : METR study
30. RLHF, Reinforcement learning from human feedback
31. Joseph Weizenbaum
32. What Is Computer Science? - Allen Newel, Alan J. Perlis, Herbert A. Simon
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