Science Magazine: AI’s challenge of understanding the world
Article written by Professor Melanie Mitchell.
News + Events
The latest news and events at the Santa Fe Institute
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BBC Sounds: Carlo Rovelli: Life, the universe and white holes
Podcast featuring Fractal Faculty Carlo Rovelli.
The New York Times: How Democrats Lost Voters With a 'Compensate Losers’ Strategy
Mentions and quotes External Professor Suresh Naidu.
Science News: The CDC is expanding its disease surveillance of international travelers
Mentions and quotes External Professor Samuel Scarpino.
Der Spiegel: Weckruf der Natur
Mentions External Professor Andreas Wagner.
Down East Magazine: Philosopher Daniel Dennett On the Illusion of Consciousness
Profile and interview featuring External Professor Daniel Dennett.
Noema Magazine: How Positive Climate Tipping Points Could Save Our Planet
Mentions and quotes External Professor Marten Scheffer.
Scientific American: A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe
Mentions and quotes Science Board Fellow David Gross.
The Wall Street Journal: Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First
Mentions and quotes External Professor Karen Willcox.
Investor's Business Daily: An Astrophysicist Takes Bold Risks And Leads With Big Questions
Mentions External Professor France Cordova.
Nature: AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
Mentions Professor Melanie Mitchell.
The New Statesman: What Daniel Dennett gets wrong
Mentions External Professor Daniel Dennett.
Nautilus: Is the Hard Problem Really So Hard?
Mentions SFI External Professor Daniel Dennett.
Big Think: Reimagining alien life: A new model focuses on function over form
Mentions research done by SFI External Professor Sara Walker and SFI Professor David Wolpert.
NM Political Report: From lawsuits to legislation: How artificial intelligence is affecting the creative economy
Mentions External Professor Melanie Moses.
The Science Times: New ‘Assembly Theory’ Closes Gap Between Reductionist Physics, Darwinian Evolution, Physicist Says
Mentions and quotes External Professor Sara Walker.
The Wall Street Journal: How the Best AI Imitates Children
Mentions External Professor Alison Gopnik.
The New York Times: The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power
Mentions and quotes Miller Scholar Ted Chiang and External Professor Cosma Shalizi.
Scientific American: Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?
Mentions SFI Fractal Faculty and External Professor Sean Carroll.
The New York Times: The Miracle and Madness of Science That Changed the World
Written by SFI Miller Scholar Tom McCarthy.