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Conversations about computation writ large,
with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley.

Dec 1, 2024

Cognitive scientist and psychologist Professor Steve Sloman of Brown University (🔗, 🔗, 🔗)
joins Michael and Dave in a fun romp through connectionism, collective cognition, the
illusion of understanding, and much more.

Also, Dave illustrates his illusion of understanding of a bicycle in a true back of the...


Jun 23, 2024

Manon Revel (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), an Employee Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, joins Michael and Dave for a conversation about the past, present, and future of democracy, and ways to understand it in both computational and practical terms.

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Mar 2, 2024

Martha White, associate professor of Computing Science at University of Alberta (🔗, 🔗) joins Michael and Dave in a conversation about AI, system prediction and control, the power of sparse representations, and many aspects of machine learning from new mathematical theory to the absolutely practical control of a...