New York Times bestselling Author Michael Lewis is, as one interviewer recently put it, “a kind of guru of our age”.
This is because, in books like Moneyball, The Big Short and Going Infinite, not to mention his own podcast, he has chronicled some of the big social and economic seachanges of our time – from the global financial crisis, to the cryptocurrency market, and how online gambling companies have managed to wage something of a “war against young men”.
Sometimes, he even seems to anticipate the sea changes. Last year, he all but predicted Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE manifesto, when he decided to investigate what American civil servants actually do. And the catastrophic risks that might come from decimating the federal government.
Today, Michael Lewis, on all of this, and what he thinks comes next for the American government. Plus, whether he thinks our own prime minister is “gutless” for delaying a ban on TV gambling advertising.
Artificial intelligence is being weaponised amidst mounting protests in Los Angeles to mislead and misinform. An AI-generated video claiming to show a National Guard soldier provoking protesters in LA has racked up over 1 million views – and counting – on TikTok. AI chatbots are also spreading fake news: internet users are turning to AI bots for verification, only to be given unreliable and inaccurate results. Vedika Bahl explains in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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Been a Sly Stone fan since early 70’s when Billy Ackland who lived in the flats across the road from me on Wendon Road Wythenshawe loaned me the album ‘There’s A Riot Going On’Go check out Sly’s Midnight Special Tv Concert 1974 on my linktree it’s been up there a while.🔊🎵 (link in bio)
A 40 minute test could reduce the risk of a second stroke. Manchester researchers and Genedrive plc have developed a new rapid genetic test to identify gene mutations that could reduce the effectiveness of a drug commonly prescribed to people who have had an ischaemic stroke. #BritishHeartWeek
Dive into the wonderfully weird world of non-human intelligence with Claire L. Evans in her captivating keynote at Sana AI Summit 2025. A Grammy-nominated artist and writer, Claire takes us on a journey through the quirky and often overlooked realms of intelligence beyond the human brain.
What’s in this video:
The magical transformation of rocks into computers
Slime molds: nature’s unexpected network optimizers
Thinking with a body: the art of morphological computing
The surprising intelligence of single-celled organisms
Rethinking memory and learning beyond synaptic plasticity
The cosmic web and the universe’s computational nature
Claire’s keynote challenges our traditional notions of intelligence, urging us to look beyond the confines of the human mind. From slime molds solving mazes to bacteria exhibiting primitive cognition, she reveals the diverse and fascinating ways intelligence manifests in the natural world. Claire’s perspective encourages us to move beyond a reductionist view of intelligence and consider the vast potential of biological and morphological computing
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00:15 – The magic of turning rocks into computers
01:08 – Limits of using rocks for computation
01:47 – Why our next computers might be grown, not mined
02:17 – The marvel of slime molds: nature’s network optimizers
05:00 – Morphological computing: thinking with a body
05:25 – Intelligence beyond the brain: lessons from biology
06:45 – Rethinking memory and learning in nature
07:50 – Memory and aneural cognition in bacteria
08:23 – The capacities of uni-cellular creatures
09:40 – Evidence of the mass spacing effect in cells
10:53 – The intractable problem of mapping the c.elegans brain
13:28 – Why are problems are less unique than we realize
14:32 – To be is to compute
16:35 – Nature teaching the difference between representation and reality
17:50 – Why life is an emergent conversation
18:50 – Embracing a bottom-up approach to intelligence
19:07 – The limitations of a reductionist approach to biology
19:47 – The evolving metaphor of computing
20:44 – Claire’s hope for the future
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