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Eric Weinstein: What Threatens Advancements in Physics Today?

Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson argue that the nature of our existence might be that of a computer simulation. In this video, the most compelling arguments for and against this statement, will be presented and discussed.  

We all come filled with many biases Yes, full of prejudices and assumptions that, in most cases, we are not even aware of.  Some help us every day, and some others limit our abilities. At some point, when thinking about the future, we are our worst enemies by unconsciously limiting our anticipatory thinking capabilities. Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individual, a group, or a belief. Multiple elements affect our objectivity like cognitive biases, conflicts of interest, prejudices, statistical and contextual biases. Biases define our thinking and worldview, simplifying decision-making and daily...

OpenAI announced the release of GPT-4, its latest, biggest language model, only a few months after the splashy release of ChatGPT. GPT-4 was already in action — Microsoft has been using it to power Bing’s new assistant function. The people behind OpenAI have written that they think the best way to handle powerful AI systems is to develop and release them as quickly as possible, and that’s certainly what they’re doing. I sat down with Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder and co-CEO of Open Philanthropy, to talk about AI and where it’s taking us. Karnofsky, in my view, should get a lot of credit for his prescient...

"I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn; whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe." - Isaac Asimov, A Memoir  By RICE UNIVERSITY MARCH 20, 2023 A new study has found that Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that has been around for 200 years, can be used to reveal important information about how deep neural networks learn to perform complex physics tasks, such as climate and turbulence modeling. This research highlights the potential...