Cosmic Queries: Minds and Machines

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Explore the inner workings of the human mind, the mysteries of memory, The Matrix, deep learning, the ethics of driverless cars, ELIZA, and much more with Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and neuroscientist Dr. Gary Marcus. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/cosmic-queries-minds-and-machines/ Image Credit: metamorworks/iStock.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:24.0	This is Star Talk.
0:25.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:29.0	And today is a Cosmic Query's edition of Star Talk.
0:34.0	We've solicited your questions on an interesting subject.
0:38.0	Queries of minds and machines.
0:42.0	Oh, yes, something I can't do myself.
0:44.0	I have to bring in help for that.
0:45.0	We'll get to that in just a moment.
0:46.0	Chuck, nice.
0:47.0	You're helping me out here.
0:48.0	That's right.
0:49.0	How are you, buddy?
0:50.0	All right, good.
0:51.0	Good.
0:52.0	Have you been practicing how to pronounce names?
0:53.0	No.
0:54.0	Which is why they will be just as awful as they always are.
0:58.0	And quite frankly, I believe that people send in crazy names just to hear me butchered them.
1:03.0	But I'm totally comfortable with that.
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