Language enables people to transmit thoughts to each other because each person’s brain responds similarly to the meaning of words. In our newly published research, my colleagues and I developed a framework to model the brain activity of speakers as they engaged in face-to-face conversations. We recorded the electrical activity of two people’s brains as they engaged in unscripted […] … learn more→
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AIs encode language like brains do − opening a window on human conversations
Gen Z and Baby Boomers are both suffering from climate change, no need to point fingers
Studies at the global and national levels show that many young people from Generation Z (Gen Z) and Millennials are very concerned about environmental issues and climate change. Gen Z is a global population group born between 1998-2012, while Millennials were born between 1981-1995. Their level of concern about the current state of the earth is higher than that […] … learn more→
Google Gemini ad controversy: Where should we draw the line between AI and human involvement in content creation?
After widespread backlash, Google pulled its “Dear Sydney” Gemini ad from Olympics coverage. The ad featured its generative AI chatbot tool, Gemini, formerly known as Bard. The advertisement featured a father and his daughter, a fan of United States Olympic track and field athlete Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. The father, despite considering himself “pretty good with words,” uses Gemini to […] … learn more→
3 factors that prevent Indonesians from becoming world-class researchers
The World Class University (WCU) status targeted by the government will be achieved, one of the ways is if there are more world-class researchers from Indonesia. In fact, as of October 2023, there were only 92 Indonesian researchers included in the Top 2 Percent World Ranking Scientist list out of a total of 210 thousand top researchers, or […] … learn more→
CAPTCHAs: The struggle to tell real humans from fake
CAPTCHAs are those now ubiquitous challenges you encounter to prove that you’re a human and not a bot when you go to log in to many websites. Websites and mobile apps have long been attacked by bots on a massive scale. Those malicious bots are programmed to automatically consume a large amount of computing resources, post spam messages, […] … learn more→
University finances are in a perilous state – it’s the result of market competition and debt-based expansion
The higher education sector in the UK is in financial crisis. Over 60 institutions have announced severance or redundancy programmes, and around 40% expect to be in deficit in 2023-24. The financial collapse of one or more universities is now a distinct possibility, with disruptive economic and social repercussions for the regions in which they are based. This alarming situation is the […] … learn more→
Philosophy is crucial in the age of AI
New scientific understanding and engineering techniques have always impressed and frightened. No doubt they will continue to. OpenAI recently announced that it anticipates “superintelligence” – AI surpassing human abilities – this decade. It is accordingly building a new team, and devoting 20% of its computing resources to ensuring that the behaviour of such AI systems will be aligned […] … learn more→
Paul Dirac: from mathematical beauty to the discovery of antimatter
One day, the Russian physicist Piotr Kapitsa asked Paul Dirac for his opinion on the book Crime and Punishment . The latter’s laconic response: “Very well, but the author was mistaken, because he described two sunrises on the same day.” Dirac spoke little, very little and never to say nothing. It is said that his physicist colleagues and students […] … learn more→
Learning from 2 tech bubbles: will AI’s popularity burst and fade?
We are currently witnessing the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, large language models such as GPT and Claude have been developing rapidly since 2018. These models can generate text that resembles human speech, to visual generative AI (GenAI) such as DALL-E and Midjourney that are able to create images from text descriptions. Other examples include AI models that can […] … learn more→
Why inclusive education is a win-win situation for everyone
People share common traits; however, as unique beings, it is normal for us to be different. During childhood and adolescence, these differences can become enormous and that is why each course and each classroom are a miniature world : no two students are the same, nor are there two groups of students the same . But diversity is not a scourge of the […] … learn more→
