Mind Matters
On the Mind Matters podcast, Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence considers the implications and misconceptions, the opportunities and limitations, and the applications and challenges presented by intelligent agents and their algorithms. Episode notes and archives available at mindmatters.ai/podcast.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 212
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Ways the Brain Can Heal
Robert Marks and Andrew Knox continue their conversation on neurology, epilepsy, and mental illness. In this episode, they focus on the medications and practices that can help restore proper brain fu…
00:30:57 |
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Ways the Brain Can Break
The brain is a marvelous organ still not understood. Artificial neural networks are supposed to be a simulation of the human brain. But comparing the brain to an artificial neural network is like com…
00:38:49 |
Thu 05 Jan 2023
The Practice of Medicine and Ongoing Issues with Opioid Addiction
How does our brain chemistry affect addiction? How has artificial intelligence changed medicine? Anesthesiologist Dr. Richard Hurley discusses opioid addiction from a medical perspective with host Dr…
01:56:48 |
Thu 29 Dec 2022
What AI Machines Won’t Be Able to Achieve
Computer scientist and AI expert Selmer Bringsjord provides a wide-ranging discussion of artificial intelligence (AI) and its capabilities. Bringsjord, a professor at Rensselaer, addresses three feat…
01:21:14 |
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Defining the Role of AI in Patents
Recently, a piece of art called “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” took home the first-place prize at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition in the category of digital arts/digitally manipulated photo…
00:28:50 |
Thu 15 Dec 2022
Can AI Be Issued Patents?
Should a computer program ever be listed as an inventor of a patent? Would AI have any right to sue for patent infringement? The US Patent Office has ruled that only “natural persons” can own patents…
00:19:46 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
Patents and the Creativity Requirement
A new invention has to produce unexpected or surprising new results that were not anticipated by existing technology in order to be patented. Can computers generate something outside the explanation …
00:16:00 |
Thu 01 Dec 2022
Getting Intentional About Your Screens
Our obsession today with screens is, often unintentionally, taking us to places we regret. We use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and …
00:40:35 |
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Patents: A License To Sue
What is the criteria for being granted a US patent? US Citizenship? Scrutiny? How long does a patent last?
00:27:45 |
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Can a Computer Be a Person?
Are we on the verge of the era of machines? Is AI destined to supplant most human endeavors and activities? Can a computer be deemed a person? And if so, should that computer be granted rights as par…
01:07:16 |
Thu 10 Nov 2022
An Excerpt from Chapter Two of Non-Computable You
What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will by Mind Matters podcast host Robert J. Marks is now available in audiobook form. Listen now to an excerpt from the second chapter as read by Larry …
00:19:35 |
Thu 03 Nov 2022
Hinduism, Philosophy, and the Mind
Arjuna Gallagher is the host of the YouTube Channel called Theology Unleashed and a Hindu. He discusses Hinduism’s unique perspective regarding subjects such as metaphysics, evil, and free will with …
01:15:48 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Appropriate Technology: Solar Powering Hospitals, Orphanages & Schools
Under normal conditions only about 30% of the entire country of Haiti has physical connection or access to the electricity grid. Electrical engineer Brian Thomas and environmental engineer Kayla Garr…
00:17:41 |
Thu 20 Oct 2022
Appropriate Technology: The Haitian Energy Problem
Not all countries need the latest technologies. Those in developing countries don’t need high powered computers or the latest car from Tesla. They have more fundamental concerns like how do I feed my…
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Get a Sneak Peek of the New Non-Computable You Audiobook
Will machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? What about composers, painters, and novelists? Will tomorrow’s supercomputers duplicate and exceed humans…
00:21:10 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
The Nature of Mind, Body, and Soul
How do the mind, the body, and the soul interact? After years of studying the brain, there are still many questions. Dr. Joshua Farris discusses free will, consciousness, and philosophy on this binge…
Thu 29 Sep 2022
School Shooters, the AI Church, and Patents
Walter Bradley Center Director and Mind Matters podcast host Robert J. Marks discusses artificial intelligence and predicting school shootings with John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable. He talks …
00:27:43 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
Top Gun, HAL 9000 and Jobs of the Future
Walter Bradley Center Director and Mind Matters podcast host Robert J. Marks continues the press tour for his book Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will. He discusse…
00:16:15 |
Thu 15 Sep 2022
Staking and Liquidity on Web3
Like gold, cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin is mined. Gold becomes harder and harder to find as it is mined. In the same way, as the supply of a cryptocurrency increases, computers have to solve harder…
00:28:53 |
Thu 08 Sep 2022
What Is Decentralized Finance?
When you pay Uber for a ride, or anybody else, you use a bank or a third party like PayPal. What if you could pay the Uber driver directly? Decentralized finance uses blockchain to establish trust an…
00:30:05 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
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