Topic: cooking

Science journalist Verena Tang joins Melina von Wenczowski to discuss how chemical concepts can be communicated accurately and engagingly. Everyday food and cooking provide examples for explaining chemistry, challenging misleading associations with harmful substances and connecting scientific explanation with an audience's practical experience.

Recent advances in deep learning have produced models that far outstrip human performance in a number of domains. However, where machine learning approaches still fall far short of human-level performance is in the capacity to transfer knowledge across domains. While a human learner will happily apply knowledge acquired in one domain (e.g., mathematics) to a different domain (e.g., cooking; a vinaigrette is really just a ratio between edible fat and acid), machine learning models still struggle profoundly at such tasks. I will present a case that human intelligence might be (at least partially