How native speakers pronounce “computer”

life but 10 years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer it all came back to me and we designed

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

it all into the Mac it was the first computer with beautiful typography if I had never never dropped

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

and since Windows just copi the Mac it's likely that no personal computer would have have

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

my wife Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film Toy Story and is now the most

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Every piece of information coming out of your computer or phone is a single thread. At any given moment, you are holding

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

aren't on devices, when they don't have a computer and the multitasking staring them in the face.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

students can't learn that well when there's a computer in front of them, how do we expect the 8-year-olds to do it?

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

The advantages of integration will be hard to compete with. Think about what we even do when we use a computer today. You move a picture of an arrow around until it touches a picture of a folder.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

It's clear that system didn't know how to stop. It’s like a computer -- it works great so you never turn it off.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

people stop thinking. "The computer says so." Four words, human judgment ends,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

a kind of myth, really. And this is the myth that the brain is a computer that just happens to be made of meat rather than metal.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

but which could equally be carried out in silicon, in AI. But the computer is just one in a long line of technological metaphors that we've reached for

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Later, it was a telephone exchange. And for the last few decades, it's been a computer. And this most recent metaphor has been extremely powerful.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

there's no sharp separation between the mindware and the wetware. Unlike the separation that you get between software and hardware in a computer. And this really matters because in a computer,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Unlike the separation that you get between software and hardware in a computer. And this really matters because in a computer, you can describe and understand everything about an algorithm,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

that power today's AI. The brain is not, or at least not just, a computer made of meat. And so consciousness is very unlikely to be a matter of computation alone.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

for consciousness to happen inside a machine? Well, a computer simulation of a hurricane does not create real wind. computer simulation of a black hole doesn’t suck the Earth

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Well, a computer simulation of a hurricane does not create real wind. computer simulation of a black hole doesn’t suck the Earth into its algorithmic singularity.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

by the idea that it just has to be some kind of information processing. After all, if you think the brain literally is a computer, then what else could it really be?

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

and consciousness together. Second, the brain is not, or not just, a computer. So consciousness is unlikely to be

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

including a deep connection between consciousness and life. Artificial intelligence is computer software. It is not a living mind.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

And the latest one was a WhatsApp bot. I put it on my computer, it talks through the apps that you already know.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

And remember, this agent, by default, can do anything that you can do on your computer. So obviously I put it in a public Discord, and I invited random people.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

And that greatly reduces the actual risk because you can only access what's on that computer. And maybe all your pictures are not there.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

they look down at the chart more, or they look more at the computer screen instead of making eye contact with those patients.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

If you're on your phone or scrolling through your computer, and the other person's talking to you,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

we need to combine physics, math, neuroscience, psychology, computer science and more, to develop a new science of intelligence.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

It took us a few decades after the invention of computers, to figure out how to make computer games that stand the test of time,

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

that are an idea of human -- of computer creativity. And also when you look at it, what it is,

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

it's much more efficient not to use human language, but we'll invent our own computer language. Now you and I are sitting here, watching all of this,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

which you can't control. Recursive self-improvement is where the computer is off learning, and you don't know what it's learning.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

Another one would be direct access to weapons. Another one would be that the computer systems decide to exfiltrate themselves, to reproduce themselves without our permission.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

And your Snapchat filters, they rely on better computer vision than our most advanced military sensors.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

your first move is to contact somebody like me and my team. I am by training an applied mathematician and computer scientist. And I know that seems like a very strange first call at a moment like this,

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

My name is Yoshua Bengio. I'm a computer scientist. My research has been foundational to the development of AI

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

I travel the world to talk about it. I'm the most cited computer scientist in the world, and you'd think that people would heed my warnings.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

by its own code and weights. After it executes the command on the computer, the human asks, "What happened?"

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

When they'll be more powerful, they would not just copy themselves on one other computer and start that program.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

Clara’s not having to chat with anything to do her work, yet she is silently and appropriately assisted by her computer as a computer

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

yet she is silently and appropriately assisted by her computer as a computer and not as an ersatz human.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

it can't just sort of do any knowledge work you could do in front of a computer. I actually, even without the sort of ability

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

Because AI that you give access to your systems, your information, your ability to click around on your computer, now, those, you know,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

before the newspaper lands in the vestibule like a grenade, the phone shrills, the computer screen blinks and glares awake. There is this hour:

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

I first learned to code when I was eight years old, on a paper computer, and I've been in love with AI ever since.

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

acing college admission tests and even passing the bar exam. I’m a computer scientist of 20 years, and I work on artificial intelligence.

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

It includes thousands of paper questionnaires and terabytes' worth of computer data. Scientists have also built up a huge bank of tissue samples,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

and teaches intro to Java tells me about his office hours with computer science students. When the guys are struggling with an assignment,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

And that number is really powerful, because last year we only graduated 7,500 women in computer science. Like, the problem is so bad

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

Nine years ago, on this stage, I delivered an early progress report on computer vision, a subfield of artificial intelligence.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

And there's more. Recall last time I showed you the first computer-vision algorithm that can describe a photo in human natural language.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

Here are more examples. Recall, we talked about computer programs that can take a human sentence and turn it into videos.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

is we're getting, you know, even back 20, 30 years ago, the beginning of the internet era and computer era, the amount of data that was being produced

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

Oh my God, we pulled out the SD card and like, with bated breath, we put it in the computer and waited for the files to load. And oh my God, we had footage from the back of a sperm whale.

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

Because we started off with classic Atari games from the 1970s, the simplest kind of computer games there are out there. And one of the reasons we used games is they're very convenient

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

is a far more demanding space than the digital world. Today, I lead MIT's Computer Science and AI lab, the largest research unit at MIT.

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

Well, this separation is starting to change. AI is about to break free from the 2D computer screen interactions and enter a vibrant, physical 3D world.

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

Each of us has probably spent many, many, many hours typing on a computer without getting faster,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

Or, a little closer to home: if you have a smartphone or a computer -- and this is TEDx, so you've got both with you right now, right?

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

The first time I experienced heartbreak was when I sat glued to my computer screen, staring at mass dolphin hunts that turned the shoreline red.

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

I mean, partially, it was the repetition. I remember there was a day I was sitting at the computer, making the sound of a neuron.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

TEDster Bill Gates says, "I had an idea: founding the first micro-computer software company." I'd say it was a pretty good idea.

Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes | Richard St. John

two mathematicians named Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken announced the first-ever computer-aided proof. Their discovery meant that for the first time in history,

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

even if they simplify things by looking for symmetries. So they used a computer to get over the finish line. Not everyone believed the proof initially.

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

Not everyone believed the proof initially. Maybe the computer had made an error somewhere. Suddenly, mathematicians no longer had total intellectual control.

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

and hand-checked calculations? Surely, a computer would be more accurate. Whether we're talking about anesthesia, self-driving cars,

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

to decide whether to release people on bail or parole. The computer isn't deciding whether they've committed a crime. In effect, it's predicting whether they'll commit one in future.

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED