Is there any such thing as true news? (Truth Part 3: Artificial Intelligence)

What role will AI play in the future of fake news and misinformation? What does this have to do with our brains’ internal models, with voice passwords, and with what Eagleman calls “the tall intelligence problem”? And why does he believe that these earliest days of AI are its golden age, and we are quickly heading for a balkanization? Join for today’s episode about truth, misinformation, and artificial intelligence.

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Moshel ML, Robinson AK, Carlson TA, Grootswagers T. (2022). Are you for real? Decoding realistic AI-generated faces from neural activity. Vision Research. 2022 Oct 1;199:108079.

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"What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment."
- Sunday Herald

"[A] neuroscientist and polymath."
- Wall Street Journal

"David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun."
- New York Times

"Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness."
- The New Yorker

"David Eagleman offers startling lessons.... His method is to ask us to cast off our lazy commonplace assumptions.
- The Guardian

"A popularizer of impressive gusto...[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars."
- New York Observer

"David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive."
- Stewart Brand

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