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Newly elected Kelowna city councillor Brady Rogers explains how he told people not to vote for him... and won. Electrical and computer engineering professor Emily Wenger reveals how she tested the creativity of AI models and found the results to be surprisingly homogeneous. Organizational behavior professor Jon Gruda outlines how your job says little about what you want in a romantic partner. AI researcher Sil Hamilton describes how large language models, when asked to generate a story, somehow all bring up Elias and the lighthouse keeper. Media and literature professor Mathias Clasen goes over the psychology of horror movies, how they provide an imaginative context in which people can play with fear, and explains why bringing horror into the classroom might be a good idea.
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Segments:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:07) Brady Rogers
(10:00) Emily Wenger pt. 1
(20:00) Emily Wenger pt. 2
(30:00) Jon Gruda pt. 1
(39:50) Jon Gruda pt. 2
(49:50) Sil Hamilton
(59:50) Mathias Clasen pt. 1
(1:09:50) Mathias Clasen pt. 2
(1:19:09) Sign-off
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