A 2024 study from Markus Meister and Jieyu Zheng proposed that the mind is an oddly slow thing. Compared to other systems of the brain which operate fast and tackle multiple problems all at once,…
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Music is organised sound, structured to tease the predictive machine that is your brain.
The AI pioneer Marvin Minsky once said that the mind is what the brain does. Another way of saying this is that the mind ‘supervenes’ on the brain. This leads to the recognition that any…
There’s a large collection of books growing in front of me, expanding faster than I can possibly read. Here’s what I did enjoy in 2023.
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” —Oscar Wilde Money makes the world go around. From the dawn of money and market societies, we’ve increasingly viewed…
We disagree a lot on what’s right and wrong, good and bad. We disagree between individuals, cultures, and countries. And our views on these matters change over time. Actions once deemed off-limits have become admissible,…
Does AI understand what it’s doing when it generates those impressive images or responds to our questions? It might, but only a little…
If you’re not right, you’re wrong. Right?
People have been worried about automation before, will history repeat itself or is AI a fundamentally different beast?
We can be stubbornly attached to stereotypes and descriptions, even when more informative data is right in front of us