Understanding AI has is a recurrent challenge. Should we be afraid or more sanguine or some combination of the two? Ben is a good person to talk to as he works in the front line of AI developments and is alert to the wonder and complexity of things. He found the Realisation Festival through the work of figures such as Iain McGilchrist and John Verveake and brings their insights to bear upon his work and sense of things. In this conversation, he discusses his own story of moving from a mechani...
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Understanding AI has is a recurrent challenge. Should we be afraid or more sanguine or some combination of the two? Ben is a good person to talk to as he works in the front line of AI developments and is alert to the wonder and complexity of things. He found the Realisation Festival through the work of figures such as Iain McGilchrist and John Verveake and brings their insights to bear upon his work and sense of things. In this conversation, he discusses his own story of moving from a mechani...
In the beginning was connection. A conversation with Kenneth Cross
The Realisation Festival Podcast
36 minutes
9 months ago
In the beginning was connection. A conversation with Kenneth Cross
Many of today’s troubles could be described as ones of connection. But is that about a lack of connection, a flood of connection, or perhaps the quality of connections? Mark Vernon talks with Kenneth Cross about relationally and, in particular, the inspiration that might be drawn from fungi. Mycelium exist in a substerranean world, blurring the distinctions between organisms, sharing in ways that are strange even disturbing. So what light does that cast on human sympathies and selfhood? ...
The Realisation Festival Podcast
Understanding AI has is a recurrent challenge. Should we be afraid or more sanguine or some combination of the two? Ben is a good person to talk to as he works in the front line of AI developments and is alert to the wonder and complexity of things. He found the Realisation Festival through the work of figures such as Iain McGilchrist and John Verveake and brings their insights to bear upon his work and sense of things. In this conversation, he discusses his own story of moving from a mechani...
