Mad Science

This week's Socos Academy looks at schadenfreude, cynicism, and the burden of great men. Mad Science Solves... When I read newspapers call OpenAI “the Cradle of AI”, a la the Rift Valley, or refer to Sam Altman as “the AI whisperer”, it is hard to not feel schadenfreude at the

This week's Socos Academy looks at various bad choices. Mad Science Solves... Indulge me this week. Read my Research Roundup below and then let’s meet again at the bottom of the newsletter to talk about subject utility. Learn more on Socos.org Stage & Screen Most of what I shared

This week's Socos Academy explores the limits of our own reasoning and AI reasoning. Mad Science Solves... A great many brilliant people have been claiming that AI, particularly large language models (LLMs) like GTP, are engaged in reasoning. They suggest and at times outright claim that these systems are not

This week's Socos Academy we explore the idea that education isn't supposed to make learning easy—the purpose of education is to prove that the hard work will pay off. Mad Science Solves... More than 5 years ago, Socos Labs launched Muse. On its surface, it was just one of

This week's Socos Academy looks at possibilities and problems with AI. Mad Science Solves... Causal Reinforcement Learning MSS Back around 2015, I was thinking hard about causality. When machine learning professors talk about causality they are usually talking about causal graphs and Judea Pearl’s research at UCLA. Years earlier

This week's Socos Academy looks at the gains and losses of remote work, and how we might create something better. Mad Science Solves... Several of my recent posts have received a great deal of attention in the last few weeks. In particular, updates on my work in “the neuroscience of

I’ve been away. You have my apologies for not delivering an episode of Socos Academy in recent weeks. This week’s Socos Academy slips through the shadows of love: for science, for my wife, and for my mom. Mad Science Solves... On June 25, my mother had a massive

Welcome back to Socos Academy with our weekly updates on mad science projects, upcoming events, tours through the latest research, and, as always, a sample from one my draft book chapters. This week: Faces! Mad Science Solves… I’ve been working on the latest draft of “SexyFace”, from Professional Mad

This month’s episode considers the messy realities of education and the challenges in making real change. One of our biggest projects at Socos Labs has been the creation of Muse@Home, a system designed to help parents, grandparents, and other guardians raise amazing kids. Rather than building a game