Punching Cards

How can we address variations amongst human intelligence, cognitive strategies and skills? Can we draw conclusions in psychology that are valid for everyone? We had an inspiring conversation about human universals with Asifa Majid, professor of cognitive science at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St. Hugh’s College, and Rasha Abdel Rahman, professor at Humboldt University of Berlin and psychologist specialized in neurocognitive psychology.

For this episode, we invited Katja Liebal, director of the LeipzigLab at the University of Leipzig, and Alex Kacelnik, head of the Behavioural Ecology Research Group at the University of Oxford, to join us in a conversation about strategies to deal with research biases linked to anthropomorphism (the tendency in science to ascribe human charateristcs to non-human entities) as well as comparative psychology and behavioural biology more broadly.

In this new season of Punching Cards, Master students who participated in a science communication course at SCIoI have interviewed experts in the world of intelligence, exploring different topics. In Episode 1 we will be finding out more about the theme of Large Language Models together with experts Sepp Hochreiter and Alan Akbik. 
Written, recorded and produced by Elena Natascha Bank, Erik Rubinov, Julia Marie Schramm, Gregor Voigts, and Sarah Jessica Kron.

Welcome to our second season of Punching Cards! For this season, we've asked Master Students to take the lead and interview some of the most influential researchers in the field of intelligence. Stay tuned for the first episode, coming up in min January!

Plants, cells, and other organisms do very impressive things, but we tend not to call them intelligent. Is that a mistake? In the final episode of this season, we ask: What are the boundaries of intelligence?

With Dimitri Coelho Mollo, Nicolas Roth, Solveig Steinhardt.
Special Guests: Paco Calvo and Michael Levin.