
Did sexual selection make male mosquitofish really smart?
Sexual selection — and natural selection — only show why smartness might be an advantage. They don’t explain how the trick is done.
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Sexual selection — and natural selection — only show why smartness might be an advantage. They don’t explain how the trick is done.
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Misinforming children is a very small part of the damage that private truth, which is incompatible with an open and science-based society, does.
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An industry is springing up to help survivors create an imaginary being that resembles the deceased — except for when they want to change it.
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Richard Finkel, first author of a study of the case, hopes that this early-start approach can be applied to other cases and other diseases as well.
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Given how health insurers will love the crashed costs, the next big mental health fight may be for the right to get in front of an actual human therapist.
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One of about 70 such structures, it is, in one science writer’s view, “one of the most surreal ancient structures ever built.”
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Curiously, that’s not what the AI celebs are saying. They’re promising the moon. We can believe the celebs or the hands-on programmers.
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Starting the day with a bit of natural irony: A misinformation expert was found to be inadvertently using fake citations in a court case.
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Chatbots may make the problem harder to spot but one outcome of attempts to address the problem is a spike in new research integrity tools.
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The more a data set can pinpoint specific users, the more profitable it will be to acquire and sell.
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The median number of views for one of YouTube’s nearly 15 million videos is only 41 and only 0.21% are monetized. It’s mostly Amateur Hour.
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AI automates frauds that would have taken much longer to perpetrate using traditional methods — but researchers are developing screening tools to combat fakery.
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Gemini informed her that she was married to a guy she’d never heard of who had died in the 1980s. But think of the entertainment potential…
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Lawyer Barry Arrington shows that fashionable supporters of Darwin were attempting to weaken the influence of Christianity by constructing such myths.
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Allstate needs to remember: If the shout hits the fan, don’t start threatening media. Nothing spreads the story faster or guarantees it more publicity than that
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Ingraham thinks competition among education options will help improve schools. but parent oversight is still needed. Charter schools, for example, may fail.
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In my view, an outreach of the sort the BBC Media Action CEO describes is best funded by disparate private philanthropists who have an interest in media.
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Will de-aging venerable stars and giving them AI “foreign” accents spur model collapse in films by constantly recycling old stuff instead of finding fresh stuff?
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AI companies have far less revenue than did dot-com companies before the burst; their revenue is 50 times smaller.
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Despite the angry denials, government data shows that key media outfits found a huge new source of income when Joe Biden took power in January 2021. Why?
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