- -: Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware"
October 13, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers ...
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- -: Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?
April 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com In a taut soliloquy that takes us from the origins of the universe to the last days of a dying sun 6 billion years later, renowned cosmologist Sir Martin Rees explains why the 21st century is a pivotal moment in the history of humanity: the first time in history when we can ma...
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- -: Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows
May 19, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.
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- -: Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
July 29, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?
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- -: Rodney Brooks: How robots will invade our lives
October 10, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys and moving into household chores ... and beyond.
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- -: John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost time
October 21, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.
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- -: Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity
February 9, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com "Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk. TEDT...
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- -: Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
March 16, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things. For a topping, try his introduction to a new theory by Matthew Hurley on why jokes are funny. TE...
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- -: David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion"
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an "emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of th...
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- -: Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality
July 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too...
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