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Plus at the 2026 Heidelberg Laureate Forum
This week we're at the HLF with some of the greatest minds in maths!
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A tour through maths and music
Explore the connections between mathematics and music at the La La Lab exhibition.
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Behind the scenes at the HLF 2021
We love talking to young researchers and laureates at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and this year we produced a daily video diary to take everyone behind the scenes of this special digital HLF.
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Talking to young researchers
We talk to young researchers who took part in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2020 about their work.
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The agent perspective
In these articles and podcast we explore how agency is what distinguishes us humans from intelligent machines, and how machines might be taught to behave more like we do.
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AI, babies, and agency
In this podcast we find out why true artificial intelligence will only become possible once machines have something that babies are born with: agency.
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Emergence and the dynamics of crowds: The podcast
In this podcast we talk about magical concept of emergence and how we can model the behaviour of crowds of people.
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence
In this podcast find out the basics of machine learning, and why time travel and immortality might be easier to achieve than human level artificial intelligence.
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The agent perspective
How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.
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Building meaning: dog or ostrich
How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.
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Maths: The next generation
What do young researchers in maths and computer science work on? We find out at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2019.
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Dodging Doppler: Atomic clocks and laser cooling
Atomic clocks are the best time keepers, but need to be kept incredibly cold. Paradoxically, the cooling is achieved by shining light on them.