Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do mathematics.

The Right must find out what ‘winning an AI race’ means, how much jobs matter, and who to trust.

A personal statement from a self-confessed “doomer”

Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning

The alarming behavior prompted Anthropic to deploy a safety feature created to avoid “catastrophic misuse.”

Lassi Rautiainen is a Finnish photographer who captured photographs of a unique friendship between a female grey wolf and a male brown bear. The two buddies were seen every night for ten consecutive days. They spend a few hours together between 8. p.m. and 4. a.m. The wolf and the bear even share food with one another.

Apparently, it is very rare to observe a wolf and a bear getting along this well. It is unsure as to how and why the two creatures became friends in the first place. Lassi assumes that the wolf and the bear felt lonely and weren’t very sure as to how to survive on their own. They were also young so they must have found it nice to share the rare events that occur in the wild.

Lassi was glad to have come across these two friends because it made the perfect story. He felt as if the wolf and the bear found it safe being together. “No one had observed bears and wolves living near each other and becoming friends in Europe” he expressed. This unlikeliest of friendships is sure to inspire us all.

Nick Bostrom’s formulation of the Simulation Argument is a rigorous reworking of what is, at its heart, an ancient question. Are we living in a created world? He distills the answer into three stark possibilities, a trilemma:

Meridian Magazine positions itself as a publication for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon denomination. I don’t know much about Meridian or the people behind it. But today I learned that they’re willing to publish a fear-mongering distortion of Transhumanism, “Human 2.0 Is Here — And You Didn’t Even Notice” by Alexis Tarkaleson. Despite their positioning, I wish to make make clear that such behavior is not aligned with the values that the Church advocates.

Tarkaleson says “mind uploading” is an outlandish tale. What’s her take on tales of transfiguration and resurrection? Are those equally outlandish? Surely she’s aware that those doctrines require the possibility of mind (or spirit body) moving from one physical body to another, consistent with hypotheses of mind uploading.

How about cryonics, yet another outlandish tale she identifies? I’m curious to know what she thinks about the Church’s advocacy to collect genealogy and preserve family history, with intent to facilitate redemption of the dead. And what about proxy rituals that we perform for the dead? Most of the world probably thinks the Church’s practices in these areas are at least as outlandish as those of cryonicists.

The entry that follows is divided into ten sections. The first distinguishes various uses of the term The second addresses the question of which mental states have The third section brings out some of the main arguments for the view that are irreducible and non-physical. The remaining sections focus on functionalism and, the explanatory gap, and introspection, representational theories of, as intrinsic, nonrepresentational properties, relational theories of and finally the issue of and simple minds.

An accurate diagnosis of ADHD is crucial in bringing clarity and the right support to people who need it, but current diagnosis methods are time-consuming and inconsistent. A new study suggests AI could help.

Researchers in South Korea trained machine learning models to connect characteristics in photos of the fundus at the back of the eye to a professional diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

Of four machine learning models tested in the study, the best achieved a 96.9 percent score for predicting ADHD accurately, based on image analysis alone.