Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying math that powers modern machine learning to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives, even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…
The Village Church is built on the foundation of valuing people, celebrating life together, and learning principles that will enable us to face life’s challenges. Our vision is to be a community of faith that is dedicated to knowing Jesus Christ, serving others in His name and making Him known throughout our home community. Our church exists beyond the walls of just Sunday morning. We’re glad to be investing in Thorold and surrounding communities! We want to make a good city great!
The Village Church is built on the foundation of valuing people, celebrating life together, and learning principles that will enable us to face life’s challenges. Our vision is to be a community of faith that is dedicated to knowing Jesus Christ, serving others in His name and making Him known throughout our home community. Our church exists beyond the walls of just Sunday morning. We’re glad to be investing in Thorold and surrounding communities! We want to make a good city great!
Pastor Terence of The Tables talks to us about the dark side and evil forces that are present in our every day lives and we can wrap ourselves in God to help us when we come up against these forces. Pastor Terence speaks from the Book of Ephesians 6:10-13. To view the video - click here
Pastor Mark continues our series of Church 101: Back to Basics. This morning, Pastor Mark talks about guilt and gives us two examples from the Book of Acts 2 and 3 - denying guilt and accepting guilt.
As we continue our sermon series - Church 101: Back to Basics, Pastor Terence preaches to us from the Book of Acts 2:14-21 and reminds us that God calls us to dream like children.
We continue our sermon series on UNHURRIED: PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION. Pastor Mark will bring a message on Eramos, from Matthew 4:1-4.
This Sunday, Pastor Mark continues our message series Unhurried: Practicing the Presence of God in an Age of Distraction. Pastor Mark speaks on the message of practicing Friendship in the presence of God.
This Sunday, we begin a new sermon series on UNHURRIED: PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION. Pastor Mark bring our first message: The Problem.
Nov 17 - We continue our sermon series, MOVE IN: GO WHERE THE GOSPEL IS NEEDED. Hilda Vander Klippe will share a sermon from Acts 17:24-27 called, ' Where Has God Moved You In? '
We continue our sermon series, MOVE IN: GO WHERE THE GOSPEL IS NEEDED. We have guest speaker Yaw Perbi, Director of International Student Ministries Canada, who will be sharing how the ministry is bringing the Gospel on campus to international students.
This Sunday, we continue our sermon series, MOVE IN: GO WHERE THE GOSPEL IS NEEDED. We have guest speaker, Shishye Thompson, from Dubai, who will be sharing how he has Moved In to his community.
We continue in our sermon series, FIRST THINGS FIRST: SETTING PRIORITIES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Jeff Lamontagne will talk about God and Friendship, from 1 Samuel 18:1-5. We will also celebrate Communion together post message.
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