Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence
ألكس ويسنر-جروس: معادلة جديدة للذكاء
Alex Wissner-Gross applies science and engineering principles to big (and diverse) questions, like: "What is the equation for intelligence?" and "What's the best way to raise awareness about climate change?" Full bio
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undertook several years ago,
different threads of evidence
Garry Kasparov at chess --
جاري كاسباروف في الشطرنج --
for computers playing Go
["F = T ∇ Sτ"]
["F = T ∇ Sτ"]
future freedom of action
beings such as ourselves.
tests, play human games,
upright without falling over,
disk representing an animal
from its initially fixed position.
opposite ends of a rope
the network well connected.
utilizing the Panama Canal
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alex Wissner-Gross - Scientist, entrepreneur, inventorAlex Wissner-Gross applies science and engineering principles to big (and diverse) questions, like: "What is the equation for intelligence?" and "What's the best way to raise awareness about climate change?"
Why you should listen
Alex Wissner-Gross is a serial big-picture thinker. He applies physics and computer science principles to a wide variety of topics, like human intelligence, climate change and financial trading.
Lately Wissner-Gross started wondering: Why have we searched for so long to understand intelligence? Can it really be this elusive? His latest work posits that intelligence can indeed be defined physically, as a dynamic force, rather than a static property. He explains intelligence in terms of causal entropic forces, ultimately defining it as "a force to maximize future freedom of action."
Wissner-Gross is a fellow at the Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science and a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard and bachelor's degrees in physics, electrical science and engineering, and mathematics from MIT.
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