How native speakers pronounce “fundamental”

And for the future, it won't serve us. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

if your deepest desire is that your partner change fundamental aspects of who they are. You really want them to be a different person.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

There's a fundamental paradox right at the core of human life. On the one hand, decades of research have shown

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

And at the heart of every experience, beneath even emotion, is this simple, shapeless and formless but fundamental feeling of being alive. And in this story,

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

And at the heart of sustaining desire in a committed relationship, I think, is the reconciliation of two fundamental human needs. On the one hand, our need for security, for predictability,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

in the body and the head of the other and not in your own. So in this dilemma about reconciling these two sets of fundamental needs, there are a few things that I've come to understand erotic couples do.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

never ask permission to save your own life. It is our fundamental right as human beings to solve our own problems.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

and better match computational dynamics to physical dynamics. For example, what are the fundamental limits on the speed and accuracy of any given computation,

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

And what kinds of electrochemical computers can achieve these fundamental limits? We recently solved this problem for the computation of sensing,

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

which is something that every neuron has to do. We were able to find fundamental lower bounds or lower limits on the error as a function of the energy budget.

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

So this suggests that biology can achieve amounts of efficiency that are close to fundamental limits set by the laws of physics itself. Popping up a level,

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

which shifts how I think about Mondays, because there's a fundamental difference between a tough day, when you project it out into eternity, as I often do,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

on our ability to do that. But it's a fundamental part of the product. CA: In a world where agency is out there

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

And C, this is going to happen. This is like a discovery of fundamental physics that the world now knows about.

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

Does that change the -- ? CC: So I think that's fundamental to it. But however, it's just like, you go back

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

And if you can't respect the basic fundamental underlying principles with which we order society --

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

There are a lot of questions like that to consider on the governance side. On the research side, we're lacking some really fundamental tools right now. For example,

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

but Greg would have to answer that. I think the fundamental problem is that most of the knowledge in the neural network systems that we have right now

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

So what would it take to choose another path? I think it would take two fundamental things. First is that we have to agree that the current path is unacceptable,

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

choose your battles. So what fundamental questions should we ask right now and tackle today

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

We talk about optimism. That is the most fundamental form of good news there is. (Laughter)

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

And so starting my career, I was deadly curious about fundamental mysteries of the most basic building blocks of life,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

Now, for me, this little pond scum critter Tetrahymena was a great way to study the fundamental mystery I was most curious about:

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

and I was interested in all the big questions, fundamental nature of reality, what is consciousness,

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

we haven't made much progress in understanding some of these fundamental laws. So I thought, why not build the ultimate tool to help us,

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

What's the vision? DH: AlphaFold is a sort of fundamental biology tool. Like, what are these 3D structures,

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

what I'd like to use it for is to try and use it to understand the fundamental nature of reality. So do experiments at the Planck scale.

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

But it was actually a simpler and much more kind of fundamental question that left me puzzled. One that actually gets to the very heart of my work every day.

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

This is where it gets really, really difficult because of a fundamental issue, which is uncertainty. There's uncertainty in the control.

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

I specialize in making new types of nanoscale electronic devices to study their fundamental quantum mechanical properties. But even I wouldn't know where to start in terms of testing elements on my phone

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

collecting the debris of these collisions to search for new, undiscovered fundamental particles. Its design and construction took decades of work

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

that may or may not work out. They thought this was fundamental. I personally thought it was betrayal.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

and the tools of biotechnology. Fundamental to all of this is the most essential tool, is genomic sequencing and the power of bringing that information into the light

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

can be applied to save endangered species. It's all a fundamental tool kit. It's essential.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

our constant craving for more, stimulated by a political system that does not act to protect our fundamental home, a system that disconnects us from nature, the soil, the forest,

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

was learning all about this cognitive bias, but I made the fundamental attribution error. This is when you overattribute

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

These are all exaggerations, slight exaggerations of a fundamental truth, which is Portlanders spend a lot more on recreation of all kinds

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

"drive till you qualify" neighborhoods. So a fundamental shift, and now you have environmentalists and economists like Ed Glaeser

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

Together we envision and transform. And I also come to realize a fundamental truth: people need beauty.

How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED