Piero Scaruffi's slide presentations

Slides of Piero Scaruffi's presentations

Human 3.0 (2023)
Deep Learning vs Deep Thinking
My 10-day Blockchain class
Slides of my class on Cognitive Science (Audience: generalists with college-level education)
Slides of my class on History of Knowledge (Audience: generalists with college-level education)
When A.I. makes art, is it still Art? (for a panel in July 2016 at University of San Francisco)
"The Best Kept Secret in Silicon Valley" for the Chinese Academy of Art (September 2015) (Audience: art students and cultural historians)
"Selfies, Surveillance and the Voluntary Panopticon" (May 2015) (Audience: generalists and intellectuals)
"The Singularity and you" (March 2015) (Not very useful actually: they forced me to summarize the A.I. presentation)
"Cosmology, Neuroscience, Rock Music" (January 2015) (Audience: rock music fans and cultural historians)
"Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity" for the LAST festival (October 2014) (Audience: college-level education, generalists, sociologists, cultural historians)
My Chinese lectures on Silicon Valley (September 2014) (Audience: general public - this is a companion to the book "A History of Silicon Valley" - history and trends)
"The Best Kept Secret of Silicon Valley" for the Alpbach Technology Forum (August 2014) (Audience: general public)
"Body: An Introduction" (California College of the Arts - April 2014) (Audience: art students, generalists, cultural historians)
A Brief History of Creativity from Athens to Silicon Valley (UC Davis 2014) (Audience: general public - this will evolve into "Best Kept Secret")
Creativity is a why, not a what - Biology, History and Thermodynamics of Creative Processes (USF 2014) (Audience: business-school students)
Demystifying Machine Intelligence (Audience: general public - this is a summary of my book "Intelligence is not Artificial")
Why mix art and science; why Silicon Valley happened here?; What is unique about humans?; The difference between you and it (UC Santa Cruz 2013) (Audience: general public - this will evolve into "Best Kept Secret")
An Introduction to Language (Stanford 2013) (Audience: general public)
A Brief Interdisciplinary History of Body (Stanford 2013) (Audience: general public)
Roger Sperry and the Age of the Brain (USF 2013) (Audience: general public)
A History of Silicon Valley (Audience: general public)
A brief History of Silicon Valley (San Jose State Univ 2013) (Audience: this is a version for art students)
A Visual History of the Visual Arts - Part 3: The Computer Age (Audience: general public)
A Visual History of the Visual Arts - Part 2: From Abstract Art to Conceptual Art (Audience: general public)
A Visual History of the Visual Arts - Part 1: From Impressionism to Surrealism (Audience: general public)
Space for the SMMMASH! (Stanford 2012) (Audience: general public)
Machine Intelligence vs Human Stupidity: Are we building smarter machines or dumber humans? (USF 2012) (Audience: general public)
Art, Science & Creativity (Sunnyvale Art Institute 2012) (Audience: art students)
Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (Audience: general public - this will evolve into "Machine Intelligence vs Human Stupidity")
What is the Dao of an Ant: A Tour of Cognitive Science (Audience: general public)
A Brief History of God (Audience: general public, cultural historians)
Women in History/ A HERstory of Women (Audience: general public, cultural historians)
A brief History of Videogames
How To Kill Yourself, Your Country And Your Planet In A Few Easy Steps and Feel Good About It (Notre Dame College 2012) (Audience: general public, especially younger generation)
A Brief History of Me (2000) (Audience: general public)

For my class "Thinking about Thought" at UC Berkeley (2014):

For my class "History of Thought" at UC Berkeley (2014):

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