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Can robots be creative? - Gil Weinberg

People have been grappling with the question of artificial creativity -- alongside the question of artificial intelligence -- for over 170 years. For instance, could we program machines to create high quality original music? And if we do, is it the machine or the programmer that exhibits creativity? Gil Weinberg investigates this creative conundrum.

Keywords:: Creative ability Artificial intelligence
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New Video Technology that Reveals An Object's Hidden Properties

Subtle motion happens around us all the time, including tiny vibrations caused by sound. New technology shows that we can pick up on these vibrations and actually re-create sound and conversations just from a video of a seemingly still object. But now Abe Davis takes it one step further: Watch him demo software that lets anyone interact with these hidden properties, just from a simple video.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering
Keywords:: Acoustical engineering Auditory perception
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Design at The Intersection of Technology And Biology

Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering and synthetic biology, her lab is pioneering a new age of symbiosis between microorganisms, our bodies, our products and even our buildings.

Subjects:: Biotechnology and Chemical and Bioprocess Technology
Keywords:: Biotechnology Biosynthesis -- Industrial applications
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How New Technology Helps Blind People Explore The World

How can technology help improve our quality of life? How can we navigate the world without using the sense of vision? Inventor and IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa, who's been blind since the age of fourteen, is working on answering these questions. In a charming demo, she shows off some new technology that's helping blind people explore the world ever more independently ... because, she suggests, when we design for greater accessibility, everyone benefits.

Subjects:: Technology, Communication Design, and Computing
Keywords:: Assistive computer technology Self-help devices for people with disabilities
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What Makes Technology So Habit-Forming?

About 40% of what you do, day in and day out, is done purely out of habit. Nir Eyal decodes how technology companies -- the masters of "habit-forming" products -- design the tech products we can't put down. But it isn't all negative manipulation, he says. It can and should be used for good.

Subjects:: Technology
Keywords:: Habit Technology -- Psychological aspects Technology -- Social aspects
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The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street

Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he's working to support the next generation of math teachers and scholars. TED's Chris Anderson sits down with Simons to talk about his extraordinary life in numbers.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Stocks -- Mathematical models Simons James Harris Mathematics -- Study teaching
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The Mathematical Secrets of Pascal's Triangle

Pascal's triangle, which at first may just look like a neatly arranged stack of numbers, is actually a mathematical treasure trove. But what about it has so intrigued mathematicians the world over? Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi shows how Pascal's triangle is full of patterns and secrets.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Pascal's triangle
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Art That Lets You Talk Back to NSA Spies

In 2013, the world learned that the NSA and its UK equivalent, GCHQ, routinely spied on the German government. Amid the outrage, artists Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter thought: Well, if they're listening ... let's talk to them. With antennas mounted on the roof of the Swiss Embassy in Berlin's government district, they set up an open network that let the world send messages to US and UK spies listening nearby. It's one of three bold, often funny, and frankly subversive works detailed in this talk, which highlights the world's growing discontent with surveillance and closed networks.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering and Political Science
Keywords:: Intelligence service Espionage Telecommunication systems Eavesdropping
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Math Is The Hidden Secret To Understanding The World

Unlock the mysteries and inner workings of the world through one of the most imaginative art forms ever -- mathematics -- with Roger Antonsen, as he explains how a slight change in perspective can reveal patterns, numbers and formulas as the gateways to empathy and understanding.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Mathematics
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The Math Behind Basketball's Wildest Moves

Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players combine intuition with new data. Bonus: What they're learning could help us understand how humans move everywhere.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Basketball Sports -- Data processing
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Can robots be creative? - Gil Weinberg

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