Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence
אלכס וויסנר-גרוס: משוואה חדשה לתבונה
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
של עתידים אפשריים.
Garry Kasparov at chess --
for computers playing Go
["F = T ∇ Sτ"]
["F = T ∇ Sτ"]
future freedom of action
beings such as ourselves.
tests, play human games,
לשחק במשחקים אנושיים,
upright without falling over,
disk representing an animal
from its initially fixed position.
מהמיקום הקבוע הראשוני שלו.
opposite ends of a rope
משיכת קצוות מנוגדים של חבל
the network well connected.
אנטרופיקה מנחה את הדרך
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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