Archive - Daniel Van Zant

Breakthrough Incentive Markets

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

Mar 24 •

Daniel Van Zant

Accelerating Neuroscience with AI

My PhD Dissertation in 4 Minutes

Apr 7 •

Daniel Van Zant

4:01

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

A discussion/debate between two computational neuroscientists

Feb 15 •

Daniel Van Zant

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Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.

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

4:11

"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

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Elan Barenholtz, Ph.D.

14:29

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

2:47

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

Interview with Alex Ellery

Self-replication, Lunar Industrial Ecology, and Space Colonization

Jan 14 •

Daniel Van Zant

Mindfest Virtual Poster

A "virtual poster" to go with my Mindfest poster

Mar 13 •

Daniel Van Zant

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