How native speakers pronounce “computers”

have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

his poetic touch this was in the late 60s before personal computers and desktop publishing so it was all made

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

to look out and see the world. Our drones have very powerful computers built in that parallel our brains.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

happened when we started putting computers and tablets on kids' desks. This is the so-called one-to-one device policies.

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

This is the so-called one-to-one device policies. Computers and tablets are multi-function entertainment systems.

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

Many of us professors are banishing computers, laptops from our classrooms.

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

Will it feel a sense of beauty or a rush of joy? Or will computers, however smart they get, always remain dark on the inside,

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

we face in our time. If computers can be conscious or sentient or aware, we'd be entering a new era in human history.

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

or are we having our own Clever Hans moment? Some philosophers think that computers will never understand language. To illustrate this, they developed something they call

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

Consider, for example, addition. Our computers add using really complex energy-consuming transistor circuits, but neurons just directly add their voltage inputs,

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

given an energy budget? And what kinds of electrochemical computers can achieve these fundamental limits?

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

That's that red curve. And we were able to find the chemical computers that achieve these limits. And remarkably, they looked a lot like G-protein coupled receptors,

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

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

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

Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle for the mind. If that's the case, what's AI, a rocket ship?

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

is what does this mean? How is it that our computers could come up with something that humans had never thought about?

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

The eventual state of this is the computers running all business processes, right? So you have an agent to do this, an agent to do this,

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

I'll give you an example. Let's imagine we are collectively all of the computers in the world, and we're all thinking based on knowledge that exists that was previously invented.

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

The little packaging and the little glue things and so forth that are part of the computers. If China were to deny access to them, that would be a big deal.

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

the high-performance chips that power today’s AI, GPUs, robotics. These are also the chips that power your phones, computers, cars and medical devices.

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

and start that program. They would copy themselves over hundreds or thousands of computers over the internet.

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

They will never grow up in a world where computers don't just kind of understand you. And do, you know, for some definition of whatever you can imagine,

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

you know, highly politicized lawsuits in which they're going to have to open up their computers, their laptops.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

these new kids coming in uh they were great on computers and great at you know problem sets but if there was ever an

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

I find something incredibly heroic about this chart. I mean, here's a guy without computers, without the Internet, without Excel, trying to do something that is incredibly hard

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

At that time, I pushed my luck and said, "Andrej, can we make computers to do the reverse?" And Andrej said, "Ha ha, that's impossible."

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

The recent milestones in spatial intelligence is teaching computers to see, learn, do and learn to see and do better.

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

enabled a database of millions of high-quality photos to help train computers to see. Today, we're doing the same with behaviors and actions

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

Today, we're doing the same with behaviors and actions to train computers and robots how to act in the 3D world. But instead of collecting static images,

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

we develop simulation environments powered by 3D spatial models so that the computers can have infinite varieties of possibilities to learn to act.

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

But I believe the full potential of this digital Cambrian explosion won't be fully realized until we power our computers and robots with spatial intelligence,

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

But if we do this right, the computers and robots powered by spatial intelligence will not only be useful tools

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

I guess it was in the mid '80s, we would use the very early chess computers, if you remember them, to train against,

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

these ideas, and then maybe how we could mimic that with computers. So yeah, it's been a whole theme for my whole life, really.

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

to understand the world in ways never before possible. The same advances that have put computers in our pockets and access to almost unlimited information on our screens

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

thousands and thousands of AI experts worked on building incredible chess computers. Eventually, they got better than humans.

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

And that's what's transpired. And Google, you know, had and still has the most computers. CA: So Earth is building these giant computers

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

And Google, you know, had and still has the most computers. CA: So Earth is building these giant computers that are going to basically, these giant brains,

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

another new branch of technology began. With the invention of computers, we quickly jumped from the first mainframes and transistors

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

AI has amazed you with its decision-making and learning, but it remains confined inside computers. Robots have a physical presence and can execute pre-programmed tasks,

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

With physical intelligence, AI doesn't just reside in our computers, but walks, rolls, flies

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

So for physical intelligence, AI has to run on computers that fit on the body of the robot. For example, our soft robot fish.

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

We can run them on smartphones, on robots, on enterprise computers, and even on new types of machines

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

But fundamentally, it's not seeing what we're seeing. This tension between the benefits that computers can bring and the understanding that humans have to relinquish isn't new.

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