AI briefs overwhelm a British court: A tragedy of the commons?
Perhaps Britain will need to consider AI judges for non-criminal cases as well …
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Did you know there is a typeface that prevents AI data theft?
It’s a sound and welcome response to the current mass appropriation of everybody’s work without consent or compensation.
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What happens to your brain and mind under anesthesia?
Researchers are trying to develop better ways of preventing post-operative cognitive issues, a common problem in older patients.
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Why do taxi drivers suffer low rates of late-life dementia?
Driving, as such, did not offer protection from the dread dementia; needing to constantly map place coordinates quickly in real time seems to enlarge the hippocampus.
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Could the Fermi Paradox — where are the aliens? — get worse?
Ivliev contends that aliens would be machine-mediated and low-noise so we should not expect to find them easily.
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Culture change: Darwin’s rival Lamarck is back
Despite longstanding ridicule, many recent papers show evidence of Lamarckism in many life forms.
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The prof who argues against intellectual diversity is at least honest
But why should taxpayers be compelled to support universities if their attitude to diversity of opinion — as outlined by Saraganian — is that of a strict church?
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Legacy media struggle to keep Fauci legend alive
For many media people, the revelations from Fauci’s papers are just something that needs explaining away. That is pretty much what they will continue to try to do.
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Yes, Hollywood’s on the way out but not for the reason many think
Hollywood has always been left of center. If that’s now affecting the bottom line, it’s because something else has changed in the meantime.
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No, we haven’t hit the Singularity. We’re not even sure what it is
If what the Singularity means depends on who we talk to, we can probably decide we are there whenever we want to be there.
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AI scores 100% in math contest?: Robert J. Marks explains
Marks: The questions on these exams are drawn from domains that already exist in the corpus of material used to train modern generative AI systems so their success is not surprising.
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Hate the media? Elon Musk interview touches a nerve
People can afford to loathe traditional media for its missteps because they have alternatives in social media now.
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Orcas surprise researchers by exploding dead sunfish
While the orcas’ sunfish-exploding behavior is remarkable, it is consistent with their reputation as “wolves of the sea.”
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Neanderthals are still getting smarter…
Did Neanderthal man get smarter or is there a growing realization of the fact that the human mind has no history? We see it where and when we see it.
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Interoception: Is it really a new sixth sense?
Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses – our senses are mostly aimed at getting information from the world outside ourselves anyway.
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Relax. You do NOT have a lizard brain
The cultural moment is changing if even McGill University does not see any need to hang onto that stuff.
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Authors be warned: AI scams are much cleverer today
Sophisticated AI tools can now tailor an email so that is sounds personal — a far cry from the junkmail that ends up in our recycle bins.
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It’s not that we don’t “trust media.” We’ve moved on
The internet fundamentally changed how people get news. A few words in the navbar about a recent event generate hundreds of links and an AI summary.
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Can a pagan religion thrive without a supernatural element?
The basis of a religion is not — as many think — assertions about the supernatural. It’s about how to understand our relationship to the universe.
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Who expected this? Luddites are Cool now?
Things have really gone south if people need to be taught how to flirt without technology.
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