Machines That Learn, Stories That Inspire: AI Through The Eyes Of A Physicist

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Health, Extracellularvesicles, Crisprcas9, 3dbioprinting, Medicine, Cancer, Health & Fitness, Biotech, Bioscience, Microbiome, Ketogenicdiets

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this conversation, we connect with Christopher Kulp, the John P. Graham Teaching Professor of Physics at Lycoming College. With a passion for inspiring the next generation of scientists, Christopher brings complex topics to life — teaching everything from machine learning and data analysis to mathematical modeling across all levels of physics education.

Christopher is a successful scientist and the revered author of many publications, including articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, and sci-fi/space opera novels. As an expert in complex systems, he is particularly interested in nonlinear dynamics, time series analysis, networks, and machine learning.

Wondering what Christopher’s work can tell us about the future of AI? Tune in to find out for yourself…

This episode dives into:

The driving forces behind AI’s rapid development.
How improvements in algorithms have trained AI systems.
The ways that AI works in collaboration with the human workforce.
The environmental impact of AI and other technological processes.

You can keep up with Christopher and his intriguing research by visiting his personal website. And be sure to pre-order his latest book, Lost Origins: Book One of the Majestic Chronicles (The Majestic Chronicles, 1), on Amazon!

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Forget frequently asked questions.
0:02.3	Common sense.
0:03.2	Common knowledge.
0:04.1	Or Google.
0:04.8	How about advice from a real genius?
0:06.9	95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license.
0:11.3	5% go above and beyond.
0:13.1	They become very good at what they do.
0:14.9	But only 0.1% are real geniuses.
0:18.2	Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you.
0:22.2	He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells,
0:27.1	ketogenic diets, and more.
0:28.7	Here come the geniuses.
0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast.
0:33.0	The Richard Jacobs.
0:37.3	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. I guess today. James.
0:40.9	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast.
0:42.7	I guess today is Chris Culp.
0:46.5	He's the John P. Graham teaching professor of physics at Leichem and Collins.
0:51.2	So we have talked about machine learning and what's called nonlinear dynamics and how that plays into how machine learning works.
0:53.1	So welcome, Chris.
0:54.2	Hi. Thank you, Richard. Thanks for having it for the show. Yeah, let's always start out
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 21 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Richard Jacobs, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Richard Jacobs and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.