Benjamin Wesolowski talks about his latest paper in which he mathematically proved that the two fundamental problems underlying isogeny-based cryptography are equivalent.
Links and papers discussed in the show:
* The supersingular isogeny path and endomorphism ring problems are equivalent (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/919)
* Episode 5: Isogeny-based Cryptogr ... Show More
Jan 2023
Episode 23: Psychic Signatures in Java!
On April 19th 2022, Neil Madden disclosed a vulnerability in many popular Java runtimes and development kits. The vulnerability, dubbed "Psychic Signatures", lies in the cryptography for ECDSA signatures and allows an attacker to bypass signature checks entirely for these signatu ... Show More
53m 20s
Nov 2023
Artificial Intelligence and the Containment Problem | Mustafa Suleyman
In Episode 336 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman about the containment problem and the AI dilemma that he outlines in his book, “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma." Mustafa S ... Show More
52m 17s
Mar 2020
#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human self-destruction in the movie Annihilation to the deep questions of consciousness and intelligence raised in the movie Ex Machina, which to me is one of the g ... Show More
1h 11m
Dec 2019
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that’s generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the seminal figures in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and statistics. He has developed and championed probabilis ... Show More
1h 23m
Oct 2022
S.3 Ep.17: Wisdom and Evolution w/ Sean Webb
Episode 17 features author, speaker, podcast host, mind researcher, and social media content creator Sean Webb (@mindhackinghappiness)! Join us for this extended interview wherein Sean graciously shares some of the details of his own unique journey to the genuine recognition of u ... Show More
1h 51m
Sep 2022
Special Episode: Language in Brains and Machines
A special interview from the Padverb Podcast, in which I discuss my research on language in the brain and thoughts on AI. The discussion covers topics such as backpropagation, how humans acquire language and concepts, how artificial neural networks differ from biological neural n ... Show More
1h 2m