The dual quests ??" to understand intelligence as it arises in biology and to build it in machines of our own making ??" have been with us for nearly a century. While neuroscience and psychology seek to characterize intelligence in terms of underlying neural mechanisms and emergent behavior, we still ...
Walk with a NaturalistJoin Shelby Hendricks, group tour and family programs manager, for an observation-based exploration of works currently on view through the lenses of art and science.These cross-disciplinary tours invite visitors to engage with artworks in unexpected ways, bringing a more-than-human dimension to scientific ideas while deepening our emotional connection to the ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free with admission
All that is compute transforms into concrete: Monopoly rent and the fixity of AI’s infrastructureIn the capitalist imaginary, artificial intelligence is narrated on dematerialization. In this telling, capital has escaped the weight of human labor via the frictionless circulation of data. This paper argues the opposite: the AI economy is a geography of fixity, where training large language models requires warehouse-scale data centers anchored ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
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