Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationArchive for April, 2025
Artificial General Intelligence, Part I

Part I of my interview with Julian Togelius, who talks about the history of machine learning, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and the difficulties AI researchers have in defining exactly what intelligence is. Togelius is an associate professor of Computer Science at New York University. Togelius is the author of Artificial General Intelligence, published recently by MIT Press.
Replay: Inventing the World

Meredith Small talks about the city of Venice and its importance to the history of travel and exploration. Small is professor emerita of at Cornell University and visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s the author of Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization





