This House argues… During the APM 2023 annual convention in Nantes, France, I had the opportunity to participate in a classic debate, using the cross-examination debate format, otherwise known as a team debate or political debate. In any case, although we...
I was listening to the latest Economist Babbage podcast about the launch of GPT4, where they described the large language models (LLMs) essentially as large pattern recognition machines. In the realm of picking up patterns and connecting dots, my ears perked up when...
Minter Dialogue with Dr Alan Cowen Dr Alan Cowen is the CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI, a science-backed expression API platform for researchers and developers, whose mission is to align science and technology with human well-being. In this conversation, we...
Minter Dialogue with Martijn Schirp Martijn Schirp is the cofounder and Chief Visionary Officer at the Synthesis Institute, that offers safe, legal, medically supervised psychedelic retreats, based out of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. As they write on their site, they...
Minter Dialogue with Jay Godfrey Jay Godfrey is an entrepreneur and cofounder of Nushama that provides medically supervised psychedelic treatments for sustained relief from depression, anxiety, chronic pain, PTSD and addiction. Previously, Jay built an eponymous...
Did you ever see the satirical musical, Oh, It’s A Lovely War? I had the pleasure of acting in a production at my high school (Eton) in England back in 1980. I had the role of an American profiteer, someone who was finding ways to benefit economically from World...