A Brief History of Stephen Hawking - with Len Mlodinow
Recalling his nearly two-decades as a friend and collaborator with Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow talks about the scientific discoveries as well as the personal stories of Hawking. Len's book "Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics" is available now: https://geni.us/yCBSEl
From playlist Livestreams
TEDxCaltech - David Awschalom - Spintronics: Abandoning Perfection for the Quantum Age
David Awschalom is a professor of physics, electrical, and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Peter J. Clarke Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. He is a pioneer in the field of semiconductor spintronics, exploring the quantum mechani
From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11
TEDxCaltech - Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Rives, Kip Thorne - Finding Things Out
Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved su
From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11
Dorothy Horstmann: Polio Pioneer
Yale researcher Dorothy Horstmann made seminal discoveries about the course of polio that supported the ultimate development of a vaccine. Her former mentee, George Miller reflects on Horstmann's science and life. Deputy Dean Carolyn Slayman talks about Horstmann's groundbreaking role as a
From playlist Bicentennial Voices
Bill Crowell: National Security in the Information Age
Bill Crowell is the Former Deputy Director of National Security Agency (NSA) and Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group. In this video, lecturer Ernestine Fu interviews Bill Crowell on the NSA’s approach to security during the emergence of digital c
From playlist Silicon Valley and the U.S. Government
Being Bill Gates | American Genius
Bill Gates is a pioneer of the personal computer revolution and a co-founder of Microsoft. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scie
From playlist American Genius | National Geographic
Friend or Foe? AI Safety Gridworlds extra bit
The last video about the AI Safety Gridworlds paper. How does an agent detect and adapt to friendly and adversarial intentions in the environment? The previous video: https://youtu.be/CGTkoUidQ8I The Computerphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eElfR_BnL5k The EXTRA BITS video, w
From playlist Technical
TEDxCaltech - Tony Hey - Feynman and Computation
Tony Hey is corporate vice president in Microsoft Research, and responsible for its multidisciplinary eScience Research Group and research collaborations between Microsoft and university researchers worldwide. Previously, he directed the U.K.'s e-Science Initiative, helping to build a new
From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11
AI That Doesn't Try Too Hard - Maximizers and Satisficers
Powerful AI systems can be dangerous in part because they pursue their goals as strongly as they can. Perhaps it would be safer to have systems that don't aim for perfection, and stop at 'good enough'. How could we build something like that? Generating Fake YouTube comments with GPT-2: ht
From playlist Technical
Got an AI safety idea? Now you can test it out! A recent paper from DeepMind sets out some environments for evaluating the safety of AI systems, and the code is on GitHub. The Computerphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eElfR_BnL5k The EXTRA BITS video, with more detail: https://
From playlist Technical
2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
Mathematicians made major progress in 2022, solving a centuries-old geometry question called the interpolation problem, proving the best way to minimize the surface area of clusters of three, four and five bubbles, and proving a sweeping statement about how structure emerges in random sets
From playlist Discoveries
Keynote by David Cohen of TechStars
David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars. Previously, David was a founder of several software and web technology companies. He was the founder and CTO of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. You can read about it in No Vision,
From playlist Rails Conf 2012
How to Keep Improving When You're Better Than Any Teacher - Iterated Distillation and Amplification
[2nd upload] AI systems can be trained using demonstrations from experts, but how do you train them to out-perform those experts? Can this still be done even without clear win/loss criteria? And how do you do it safely? This video was based on work including: "Supervising strong learners
From playlist Best Of
Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?
Corporations are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you have to squint though, and is it worth it? In this video we ask: Are corporations artificial general superintelligences? Related: "What can AGI do? I/O and Speed" (https://youtu.be/gP4ZNUHdwp8) "Why Would AI Want to do Bad
From playlist Best Of
Liran Rotem - Spectral inequalities for rotation invariant measures - IPAM at UCLA
Recorded 08 February 2022. Liran Rotem of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology presents "Spectral inequalities for rotation invariant measures" at IPAM's Calculus of Variations in Probability and Geometry Workshop. Abstract: We present new Brascamp-Lieb and Poincaré type inequalities,
From playlist Workshop: Calculus of Variations in Probability and Geometry
Safe Exploration: Concrete Problems in AI Safety Part 6
To learn, you need to try new things, but that can be risky. How do we make AI systems that can explore safely? Playlist of the series so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqL14ZxTTA4fEp5ltiNinNHdkPuLK4778 The paper, 'Concrete Problems in AI Safety': https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.0
From playlist Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Jean Bourgain’s Impact on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis; Selected Topics - Vitali Milman
Honoring the Life and Work of Jean Bourgain Topic:Jean Bourgain’s Impact on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis; Selected Topics Speaker: Vitali Milman Date: May 31, 2019 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu
From playlist Mathematics
2015 Distinguished Alumnus - Stanislav Smirnov - 5/16/2015
Stanislav Smirnov (MS '95, PhD '96, Mathematics); Professor of Mathematics, University of Geneva; Director of SwissMAP, National Center for Competence in Research Smirnov is being recognized for his achievements in mathematics, particularly in statistical physics. He produced the first ri
From playlist Talks and Seminars