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Our robotic overlords: The talks of Session 2 of TED2017

By Alejandra Vasquez, Brian Greene, Julia Dickerson, Kate Torgovnick May and Rebekah Barnett

on Apr 25, 2017

Are machines going to save or destroy us? It’s a question we’ve been grappling with since we first put 1s and 0s together to create computer code. And it feels like we’re no closer to answering it; machines are growing smarter by the day, and while they’re taking us to places we’ve never imagined, we […]

Harnessing the intelligence of the collective: Radhika Nagpal speaks at TED2017

By Rebekah Barnett

on Apr 25, 2017

Computer scientist Radhika Nagpal’s defining moment came on a snorkeling trip in the Bahamas. As she stuck her head beneath the surface, trying hard to breathe through the narrow plastic tube, she saw a huge school of yellow-and-black striped fish. She was struck by how the school swerved to change direction not as if it […]