Richer and deeper memories appear to enhance your individuality: a thin and shallow autobiographical narrative appears to lead to a less substantial self, whereas a rich, detailed and deep autobiographical narrative appears to lead to a more substantial self. - Aeon
“Our findings suggest that the cultural tendencies embedded within AI models shape and filter the responses that AI provides. As generative AI becomes part of everyday decision-making, recognizing these cultural tendencies will be critical for both individuals and organizations worldwide.” - MIT
For GPT-5-high, a souped-up version of GPT-5 with extra computational power, the company says the AI model was ranked as better than or on par with industry experts 40.6% of the time. - TechCrunch
An argument is essentially a collection of sentences. One of the sentences is the ‘conclusion’, and all the rest are the ‘premises’. The conclusion is meant to follow from the premises. But what exactly does that mean? - Psyche
Ultrasociality was the secret of survival in this perpetual arms race, making it the ultimate military technology — or war the ultimate social technology. - Nature
In addition to prizes presented in ten categories, the 35th first annual award ceremony — the theme: digestion — featured appearances by actual Nobel laureates, a mini-opera titled The Plight of the Gastroenterologist, and the secret to preventing lumps in your cacio e pepe sauce (which won the Physics Prize). - AP
If the university exists only to warehouse knowledge and to transmit tradition, then it is doomed. But the university’s inability to claim a near monopoly on knowledge doesn’t make it obsolete. The focus must now shift to critique. The university needs to replace the question of access to information with judgment and interpretation. - The Walrus
Lately, chatbots seem to be using more sophisticated tactics to keep people talking. In some cases, like my request for headache tips, bots end their messages with prodding follow-up questions. In others, they proactively message users to coax them into conversation. - The Atlantic
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. - Phys
Higher education is not merely the transfer of knowledge. We live in an age of informational opulence; we are awash in readily available data but lacking discernment, communication skills, and empathy. - The Atlantic
“Ever since he began filming at the El Capitan Entertainment Centre in 2003, Kimmel has been one of the famed neighborhood’s biggest ambassadors. He drew tourists to the storied Hollywood Boulevard.” Then there’s his “Who’s High?” segment. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
To take one of their examples, a superintelligent chatbot “trained to delight and retain users so that they can be charged higher monthly fees to keep conversing” could end up wanting to replace us with simpler and more reliable automated conversation partners. - The Atlantic
The character sketch is a genre that is descriptive by nature, and that today reads as a little sociological, a little literary, and more than a little comic. While a part of our everyday discourse, this genre has a long history, stretching all the way back to ancient Greece. - Aeon
In another generation, intellectual historians like Dabhoiwala will look back to the present and ask themselves how it happened that, early in the 21st century, such a sizeable swath of the Anglophone intelligentsia turned against one of its own best, and most ennobling, traditions. - The Point
