Daniel Van Zant

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Breakthrough Incentive Markets
Aligning financial incentives with scientific progress to solve humanity's most urgent challenges
 • Daniel Van Zant
"An Extra Chunk of Cortex": A Cognitive Scientist's Practical Use of ChatGPT
A Live Demonstration of AI-Augmented Research Workflow
 • Daniel Van Zant and Elan Barenholtz
14:29
Accelerating Neuroscience with AI
My PhD Dissertation in 4 Minutes
 • Daniel Van Zant
4:01
What does the structure of large language models imply for cognition?
A discussion/debate between two computational neuroscientists
 • Daniel Van Zant, ekkolápto, and Elan Barenholtz
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…
 • Daniel Van Zant
4:11
The RAG Dilemma: Scale vs. Intelligence
Why you can't have both massive document sets and deep reasoning in current systems
 • Daniel Van Zant
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.
 • Daniel Van Zant
2:47
Wolfram Institute Seminar: Building Better Theories in the Computational Sciences
A presentation of a system I am working on.
 • Daniel Van Zant
1:19:22
Interview with Alex Ellery
Self-replication, Lunar Industrial Ecology, and Space Colonization
 • Daniel Van Zant
Mindfest Virtual Poster
A "virtual poster" to go with my Mindfest poster
 • Daniel Van Zant
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