Guest Thinkers — September 8, 2011

Jay Smooth on Rick Perry and Superman, a Great American

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Presidential hopeful Rick Perry told a little kid that if he were a superhero, he’d be Superman, a great American. Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine thinks that’s a great idea. Watch.

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High Culture

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

The Present

Khan Academy’s founder on how AI can supercharge “mastery learning”

“We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.

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The Future

How Google’s new AI could revolutionize medicine

“By 2040, we hope to see a number of new drugs that have been designed with AI reaching patients.”

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The Future

Does AI need a “body” to become truly intelligent? Meta researchers think so

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

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13.8

Alan Wake 2: Blurring the lines between gaming and revelatory art

Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.

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