248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
Over the last year, AI large-language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have demonstrated a remarkable ability to carry on human-like conversations […]
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Technology
238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking
Modern computers are somewhat more secure against being hacked – either by an inanimate virus or a human interloper –
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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Welcome to another episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape. Today, we’re joined by Raphaël Millière, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at
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229 | Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology
Every time our brain does some thinking, there are associated physical processes. In particular, electric currents and charged particles jump
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210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If…?
What’s the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing?
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191 | Jane McGonigal on How to Imagine the Future
The future grows out of the present, but it manages to consistently surprise us. How can we get better at
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186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity
Advances in technology have gradually been extending the human self beyond its biological extent, as we augment who we are
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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
As the holidays approach, we are being reminded of the fragility of the global supply chain. But at the same
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141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
In a world flooded with information, everybody necessarily makes choices about what we pay attention to. This basic fact can
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don’t See
It’s a truism that what we see about the world is a small fraction of all that exists. At the
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