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Here’s why AI like ChatGPT probably won’t reach humanlike understanding

Here’s why AI like ChatGPT probably won’t reach humanlike understanding

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If you ask ChatGPT whether it thinks like a human, this chatbot will tell you that it doesn’t. “I can process and understand language to a certain extent,” ChatGPT writes. But “my understanding is based on patterns in data, [not] humanlike comprehension.” Still, talking to this artificial intelligence, or AI, system can sometimes feel like talking to a human. A pretty smart, talented person at that. ChatGPT can answer questions about math or history on demand — and in a lot of different languages. It can crank out stories and computer code. And other similarly “generative” AI models can produce artwork and videos from scratch. Let’s learn about artificial intelligence “These things seem really smart,” said Melanie Mitchell. She’s a computer scientist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. She spoke at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was held in Denver, Colo., in February. AI’s increasing “smarts” have a lot of people worried. They fear generative AI could take people’s jobs — or take over the …

Autism Acceptance: A New Understanding of Neurodivergence

Autism Acceptance: A New Understanding of Neurodivergence

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Source: @mcreynoldsphd / Canva April is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism, which is one type of neurodivergence, has received a lot of attention from the press and social media in the last several years. There are many people who speak and write about autism, including autistic individuals. If you are autistic or know someone who is or might be, it’s important to recognize that our understanding of autism is evolving. I hope this blog post contributes to improving awareness of the current conception of what it means to be autistic and the implications of this new knowledge. The following are some facts about autism that are often unfamiliar to people but that are important to acknowledge as we move forward in helping autistic people thrive. 1. You can be autistic your whole life and not realize it until you’re an adult. There has been a sharp increase in the number of individuals seeking an assessment to clearly determine if they are autistic in my practice. Many people would not have “met the criteria” according to previous …

Understanding of Earth’s flowering plants blossoms in genome study

Understanding of Earth’s flowering plants blossoms in genome study

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WASHINGTON : Flowering plants – from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse flower and voodoo lily – are cornerstones of Earth’s ecosystems and essential for humankind. New research based on genome data for 9,506 species, as well as an examination of 200 fossils, provides the deepest understanding to date of the evolutionary history of flowering plants, called angiosperms – the largest and most diverse plant group. It details how angiosperms appeared and became dominant during the age of dinosaurs and how they have changed over time. The scientists devised a new tree of life for angiosperms, covering 15 times more types of flowering plants – nearly 60 per cent of them – than the nearest comparable study. “It is a massive leap forward in our understanding of plant evolution,” said botanist William Baker of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) in London, senior author of the research published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. Angiosperms, plants …

Understanding the British government’s plan to send migrants Rwanda

Understanding the British government’s plan to send migrants Rwanda

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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives at the 10 Downing Street “Briefing Room” for the press conference on the bill to deport illegally-arrived asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. TOBY MELVILLE / AFP Following an intense battle between the United Kingdom’s House of Lords and House of Commons, the British Parliament approved the “Safety of Rwanda” bill on Monday night, April 23; paving the way for asylum seekers who had arrived illegally in the UK to be deported to the East African country. Read more Subscribers only UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda Backed by a new treaty between London and Kigali, which provides for the payment of substantial sums to Rwanda in return for receiving the asylum seekers, the bill aimed to respond to the findings of the UK’s Supreme Court, which in November ruled that the initial project was unlawful. Its many critics have judged the bill to be in breach of international law, impossible to implement, immoral, complicated, and excessively costly. Several appeals have been lodged with legal …

Understanding Justice Sensitivity | Psychology Today

Understanding Justice Sensitivity | Psychology Today

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Source: Giulio Fornasar/Getty Images, retrieved from Canva “Jennifer, life isn’t fair!” I can still see the exasperated look on my professor’s face after I complained about the selection process for a required internship. At the time, I felt hurt by my professor’s chiding, but I now understand that he was reacting to my justice sensitivity (JS), a trait that has brought me both inspiration and aggravation. JS involves 4 components: 1. Being sensitive to perceiving injustice; 2. Reacting emotionally to it; 3. Obsessing over it; and 4. Feeling an urge to undo or fix it. Some forms of JS are prosocial. They entail picking up on injustice being committed against others, and are related to behaviors like altruism and activism. I became lifelong friends with Casey in second grade because of her prosocial JS. She noticed that I was sitting alone during story time and patted the spot on the carpet next to her, indicating that she wanted me to join. Another form of JS is victim sensitivity, or believing you, personally, are being exploited. …

Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies

Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies

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  Modern art is notoriously difficult to understand. The mix of psychology and philosophy that loom over this period can make the art of this era difficult to digest. Modernism is marked by the rejection of tradition, ushering in decades of innovation within the art world. Artists worked to define themselves as individuals, catering to personal styles, tastes, and inspiration. The artist Francis Bacon is one of the most important modern artists. With his extraordinary triptych works, commonly titled Three Studies, Bacon elicits intense emotions from the viewer, inspired by relationships in his personal life.   Who was Francis Bacon? Painting, Francis Bacon, 1946. Source: The Museum of Modern Art, New York   Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was an Irish-British artist who defied categorical style, though he was often associated with surrealism. Bacon rose to fame with paintings that focused on the intensity of the human condition. He first started painting in the early 1900s, with his first work Crucifixion (1933). After being disillusioned with the severe criticisms, he turned away from the profession for some …

A new understanding of tinnitus and deafness could help reverse both

A new understanding of tinnitus and deafness could help reverse both

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Working as a DJ in Liverpool, UK, a decade ago, James Rand would often leave work hearing strange sounds that he knew weren’t real — a high-pitched whine or a low rumble. These symptoms of tinnitus always disappeared by the time he awoke… until, one day in 2017, they didn’t. A doctor confirmed that the sounds had probably been caused by Rand’s exposure to loud music for hours at a time. There were no treatments, bar ways to help him get used to it. “I knew I was never going to hear silence again,” he says. “It was incredibly depressing.” Today, though, the prospects for treating tinnitus aren’t so bleak. New research has led to neurostimulation devices that reduce the sounds’ volume. Moreover, several treatments are in development that could even silence tinnitus completely. “For the first time, we’re talking about a possible cure,” says Stéphane Maison at Harvard Medical School. These insights have also shed light on a common cause of hearing loss. In fact, they suggest that some of the same treatments for …

improving behavioural health treatments through understanding mis-implementation – Evidence & Policy Blog

improving behavioural health treatments through understanding mis-implementation – Evidence & Policy Blog

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Grace Hindmarch, Alex R. Dopp, Karen Chan Osilla, Lisa S. Meredith, Jennifer K. Manuel, Kirsten Becker, Lina Tarhuni, Michael Schoenbaum, Miriam Komaromy, Andrea Cassells and Katherine E. Watkins This blog post is based on the Evidence & Policy article, ‘Mis-implementation of evidence-based behavioural health practices in primary care: lessons from randomised trials in Federally Qualified Health Centers’, part of the Special Issue: ‘Learning from Failures in Knowledge Exchange’. “This is disappointing, but I agree we’ve done the best we can.”  – CEO of a rural health care system In October 2021, a rural healthcare system in the US discontinued implementation of a new program to improve access to quality care for patients with co-occurring opioid use disorder and mental health disorders. The program’s mission, fueled by passion for patients, was to help complex patients not fall through the cracks. After two years of immense effort, the system experienced ‘mis-implementation.’  Mis-implementation refers to unsuccessful efforts to implement treatments in real-world settings. Although it is a disappointing outcome, studying mis-implementation can provide insights to improve processes and make …

Understanding ADHD Working Memory Challenges

Understanding ADHD Working Memory Challenges

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Source: Antonio Diaz/ iStock photo ID:1048305438 Many people with ADHD wonder if they have a “bad” memory. I think “bad” is an unhelpful way to describe memory and “uneven” would be more accurate. Adults, teens and kids with ADHD often struggle with working memory. You may process memory differently than neurotypical brains–sometimes recalling extremely specific information from ten years ago and sometimes struggling to remember what you had for dinner yesterday. Your memory can work idiosyncratically and sometimes less effectively than you might desire. It’s really important to understand that having working memory challenges, along with processing speed issues, can be a natural part of living with ADHD and other executive functioning skill challenges. So, instead of labeling your memory as “good” or “bad”, let’s understand how it works and what strategies can help you strengthen your working memory and adapt to its frustrations. Let’s look at how memory works in general. There are three types of memory: It’s generally believed that short-term memory is super quick: it stores information briefly, just long enough to …

Is AI’s next leap understanding emotion? M for Hume says yes

Is AI’s next leap understanding emotion? $50M for Hume says yes

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Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. Yesterday, a new startup called Hume AI announced it had raised $50 million in a Series B round led by EQT Ventures with participation from Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Metaplanet, Northwell Holdings, Comcast Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures. The startup was co-founded and is led by CEO Alan Cowen, a former researcher at Google DeepMind. Beyond Cowen’s pedigree and a general frothing interest in AI startups from the VC world — what else could command such a sizable round? Hume AI’s differentiator from numerous other AI model providers and startups is in its focus on creating an AI assistant — and an API for that assistant that other enterprises can build chatbots atop of, as well as some of its underlying data — that understands human emotion, reacts appropriately to it, and conveys it back to the user. Unlike …