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THE UNTOLD TECH STORY OF OUR TIMEWhat does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create?With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. Where an ...
Yann LeCun
Mar 18, 2021Free Culture
How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
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Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exer...
Yann LeCun
Mar 06, 2021Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human ...
Yann LeCun
Mar 22, 2020Also recommended by
Michael MauboussinAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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What separates your mind from an animals? Maybe you think its your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and futureall traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planets preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal co...
Yann LeCun
Dec 09, 2019