Category: Talks

Inferring Local Interactions from Global Response in Condensed Active Matter

Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar
September 25, 2024
Robert Wagner (Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University)
“Inferring Local Interactions from Global Response in Condensed Active Matter: Complex Emergence in the Mechanics of Fire Ant Rafts”

Read the full article at: vimeo.com

How Is Science Even Possible?

How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make the complex cosmos understandable? In this episode, the physicist Nigel Goldenfeld and co-host Steven Strogatz explore the deep foundations of the scientific process.

Read the full article at: www.quantamagazine.org

François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence

Which is more intelligent, ChatGPT or a 3-year old? Of course this depends on what we mean by “intelligence.” A modern LLM is certainly able to answer all sorts of questions that require knowledge far past the capacity of a 3-year old, and even to perform synthetic tasks that seem remarkable to many human grown-ups. But is that really intelligence? François Chollet argues that it is not, and that LLMs are not ever going to be truly “intelligent” in the usual sense — although other approaches to AI might get there.

Listen at: www.preposterousuniverse.com