Daniel Van Zant

Wolfram Institute Seminar: Building Better Theories in the Computational Sciences

A presentation of a system I am working on.

Aug 22 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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1:19:22

June 2025

"An Extra Chunk of Cortex": A Cognitive Scientist's Practical Use of ChatGPT

A Live Demonstration of AI-Augmented Research Workflow

Jun 11 • 

Daniel Van Zant

 and 

Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.

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14:29

May 2025

Augmenting technical conversations with AI (demo)

Demo of an AI tool that displays relevant information live as you are having a technical conversation or presentation.

May 14 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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2:47

April 2025

Accelerating Neuroscience with AI

My PhD Dissertation in 4 Minutes

Apr 7 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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4:01

March 2025

Breakthrough Incentive Markets

Aligning financial incentives with scientific progress to solve humanity's most urgent challenges

Mar 24 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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Mindfest Virtual Poster

A "virtual poster" to go with my Mindfest poster

Mar 13 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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February 2025

What does the structure of large language models imply for cognition?

A discussion/debate between two computational neuroscientists

Feb 15 • 

Daniel Van Zant

, 

ekkolápto

, and 

Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.

3

An AI prototype that lets you "zoom in and out" of a book

Have had this idea to use LLMs to allow you to “zoom in and out” of a book conceptually, the same way you can zoom in and out on something like Google…

Feb 6 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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4:11

January 2025

The RAG Dilemma: Scale vs. Intelligence

Why you can't have both massive document sets and deep reasoning in current systems

Jan 29 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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Interview with Alex Ellery

Self-replication, Lunar Industrial Ecology, and Space Colonization

Jan 14 • 

Daniel Van Zant

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