Computer Power and Human Reason

Computer Basics: What Is a Computer?

Computers are all around us, and they play an important role in our lives. But what exactly is a computer? We're going to answer that question and give you an overview of some of the different types of computers you might use. 0:00 Intro 0:22 Ones and zeros 0:39 Hardware and software 1:0

From playlist Starting out with Technology

Richard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics

Donate and Support this Channel: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BLJ283JMTMT7S Introduction Article to Heuristics and Metaheuristics: http://muonray.blogspot.ie/2016/04/meta-heuristics-and-universal-power-law.html Richard Feynman, Winner of the 1965 Nobel Priz

From playlist Feynman's Lectures

Quantum Computer in a Nutshell (Documentary)

The reservoir of possibilities offered by the fundamental laws of Nature, is the key point in the development of science and technology. Quantum computing is the next step on the road to broaden our perspective from which we currently look at the Universe. The movie shows the history of pr

From playlist Quantum computing

Ernest Nagel on Computers, Logic, & Mind (1962)

A few clips of Dr. Ernest Nagel in an interview discussing things in relation to logic, computers, minds and machines. More information will be added later. #Philosophy #Mathematics

From playlist Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Computer Science Basics: Hardware and Software

We use computers every day, but how often do we stop and think, “How do they do what they do?” This video series explains some of the core concepts behind computer science. To view the entire playlist, visit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpQQipWcxwt-Q9izCl0mm-QZ4seuBdUtr. We hop

From playlist Computer Science Basics

Teach Astronomy - Computers and Evolution

http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Computers have informed us about evolution in two fundamental ways. First, the power of computers has been used to model evolution. It's possible to create life in a computer in a sense. So-called genetic algorithms can be used to mimic the processes by wh

From playlist 26. Life on Earth

Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics

Quantum computers aren’t the next generation of supercomputers—they’re something else entirely. Before we can even begin to talk about their potential applications, we need to understand the fundamental physics that drives the theory of quantum computing. (Featuring Scott Aaronson, John Pr

From playlist Explainers

Computer Literacy - (unit 4) - the internet - 2 of 4

Forth unit of a series for newbie computer users. See http://proglit.com/computer-skills/ for additional information and material.

From playlist Computer Literacy - (unit 4) - the internet

Computer Literacy - (unit 4) - the internet - 1 of 4

Forth unit of a series for newbie computer users. See http://proglit.com/computer-skills/ for additional information and material.

From playlist Computer Literacy - (unit 4) - the internet

Minds, Brains, & Science - John Searle (1984 Reith Lectures)

In this series of lectures, John Searle, former Professor of Philosophy at Berkeley, examines the connections between minds, brains, and science. These lectures were given as part of the 1984 BBC Reith Lectures, but are still just as relevant today. Some of the topics discussed include fre

From playlist Philosophy of Mind

After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in the Postwar United States - Stephanie Dick

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From playlist Historical Studies

DEFCON 20: Beyond the War on General Purpose Computing: What's Inside the Box?

Speaker: CORY DOCOTOROW AUTHOR, ACTIVIST, BLOGGER, CO-EDITOR OF BOINGBOING.NET Assuming the failure of all the calls to regulate PCs and the Internet because people might do bad things with them, what then? Civil war, that's what. The su/user split we inherited from multiuser systems has

From playlist DEFCON 20

Artificial Intelligence, the History and Future - with Chris Bishop

Chris Bishop discusses the progress and opportunities of artificial intelligence research. Subscribe for weekly science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe The last five years have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of excitement in the goal of creating intelligent machines. Technology compani

From playlist Ri Talks

Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299

Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Mailgun: https://lexfridman.com/mailgun - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off - Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off - Indeed: https

From playlist Talks

Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence

October 24, 2007 lecture by Steve Omohundro for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Steve presents fundamental principles that underlie the operation of "self-improving systems," i.e., computer software and hardware that improve themselves by learning from their o

From playlist Lecture Collection | Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium (2007-2008)

Harnessing The True Power Of Atoms | Order And Disorder Compilation | Spark

The great 19th-century Austrian physicist, Ludwig Boltzmann was one of the most important proponents of the idea that all matter is made of atoms. Today no one doubts this is true but in Boltzmann's day it was a controversial idea and many of his contemporaries disagreed with him. But Bol

From playlist Happy Birthday Professor Jim Al-Khalili!

Debate on AI & Mind - Searle & Boden (1984)

John Searle and Margaret Boden discuss a few philosophical issues regarding artificial intelligence and the mind, including Searle's famous Chinese Room thought experiment which is an argument against the possibility that a computer could ever genuinely have a mind in the same sense that h

From playlist Philosophy of Mind

What is Cognitive AI? Cognitive Computing vs Artificial Intelligence | AI Tutorial | Edureka

🔥 PGP in AI and Machine Learning (9 Months Online Program) : https://www.edureka.co/post-graduate/machine-learning-and-ai This Edureka video on "Cognitive AI" explains cognitive computing and how it helps in making better human decisions at work. Also, it explains the differences between c

From playlist Data Science Training Videos

Architects of the Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain

Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that with sufficiently robust memory, processing speed, and programming, a functioning human brain can be replicated in silicon. Others disagree, arguing that central t

From playlist World Science Festival 2013

Probability theory and AI | The Royal Society

Join Professor Zoubin Ghahramani to explore the foundations of probabilistic AI and how it relates to deep learning. 🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: https://bit.ly/3fQIFXB #Probability #A

From playlist Latest talks and lectures