Returning to Childhood 2.0 and so many discouraging—okay—depressing documentaries from the past few years (The Great Hack, Requiem for The American Dream, The Social Dilemma, etc.), it’s tempting to throw up our hands. To surrender to disillusionment. Even nihilism.
That’s the wrong way to view the difficulties of our times.
Instead, let’s use our challenges as mechanisms for growth. Or as Winston Churchill once remarked, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” In the spirit of innovation and goodwill to humankind this holiday season, let’s seize this challenging moment to tell a new story about philanthropy.
Yusuf Shah, a Year 6 student at Wigton Moor Primary School, took the Mensa IQ test as he wanted to know if he figured in the top two percent of the people who take the test.
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A new artificial intelligence tool called GPT-3 has recently been created, and it’s able to perform some tasks better than humans can. That’s because GPT-3 isn’t taught or trained by…
In this bonus interview for the series Science Uprising, computer scientist and AI expert Selmer Bringsjord provides a wide-ranging discussion of artificial intelligence (AI) and its capabilities. Bringsjord addresses three features humans possess that AI machines won’t be able to duplicate in his view: consciousness, cognition, and genuine creativity.
Selmer Bringsjord is a Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Director of the Rensselaer AI and Reasoning Laboratory. He and his colleagues have developed the “Lovelace Test” to evaluate whether machine intelligence has resulted in mind or consciousness.
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When you need someone to narrate the history of the universe — and Mel Brooks is busy — you might as well go with Morgan Freeman. Not only has Freeman played God in “Bruce Almighty” and “Evan Almighty,” but he’s also told “The Story of God” and “The Story of Us” for National Geographic.
In “Our Universe,” Freeman is lending his voice to a new six-part nature documentary series for Netflix. As the title implies, this series is even bigger in scope than “The Story of Us.” It’s looking back at the whole history of the universe and how 13.8 billion years have led us to this moment.
Freeman also narrated the Oscar-winning documentary “March of the Penguins,” and while I’m not a wildlife expert, I think you might spot some brown penguins in the “Our Universe” trailer. For anyone who enjoyed seeing cosmic events recreated with special effects in Terrence Malick’s “Voyage of Time,” but wished the movie had been narrated by Detective Somerset instead of Detective Mills (as in, Freeman and Brad Pitt’s “Seven” characters), this Netflix series might be right up your alley. Check out the trailer for “Our Universe” below.
Like most physicists, I spent much of my career ignoring the majority of quantum mechanics. I was taught the theory in graduate school and applied the mechanics here and there when an interesting problem required it … and that’s about it.
Despite its fearsome reputation, the mathematics of quantum theory is actually rather straightforward. Once you get used to the ins and outs, it’s simpler to solve a wide variety of problems in quantum mechanics than it is in, say, general relativity. And that ease of computation—and the confidence that goes along with wielding the theory—mask most of the deeper issues that hide below the surface.
Deeper issues like the fact that quantum mechanics doesn’t make any sense. Yes, it’s one of the most successful (if not the most successful) theories in all of science. And yes, a typical high school education will give you all the mathematical tools you need to introduce yourself to its inner workings. And yes, for over a century we have failed to come up with an alternative theory of the subatomic universe. Those are all true statements, and yet: Quantum mechanics doesn’t make any sense.
New psychology findings suggest that attractive students earn higher grades in school, but for female students, this beauty premium disappears when classes are taught remotely. The findings were published in the journal Economic Letters.
A large body of research suggests that physical appearance has an impact on a person’s success. For example, attractive people tend to earn more money and report higher life satisfaction than less attractive people. Interestingly, scholars have yet to agree on the explanation behind this beauty premium.
One account suggests that the beauty advantage can be explained by discrimination. For example, employers may inherently favor attractive over unattractive workers. Another perspective suggests that beauty is a productivity-enhancing attribute. This view suggests that attractiveness lends itself to higher productivity, for example, through increased self-confidence.
The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized the way we look at the universe in less. than a year. Since its launch on December 25, 2021 multiple images captured by the largest. telescope with potentially the highest infrared resolution and sensitivity have been going viral. around the globe. James Webb is no doubt the most advanced telescope in human history. The. telescope’s integrated science instrument module or ISIM framework provides it with electrical. power, computing framework, cooling capability and structural stability. The ISIM also holds the. four science instruments and the guide camera of the telescope. The infrared imager NIRICam. serves as the Observatory’s wavefront sensor while the NIRISpec performs spectroscopy over. the same wavelength range as that of NIRICam. The Mid-Infrared Instrument measures the mid. to long infrared wavelengths and the Fine Guidance Center and Near Infrared Imager and. Slitless Spectrograph is used to stabilize the line of sight during the science observations. So far. the images and data received from the JWST are well worth the ten billion spent on building this. miraculous invention. The first ever in ages from the telescope were revealed to the world on. July 12, 2022 and experts believe these pictures from the largest and most powerful telescope. in the world demonstrate Webb at its absolute best, fully prepared to further unravel the infrared universe. These included images of cosmic cliffs in the carina nebula, exoplanet WASP-06b. southern ring nebula, Stephen’s quintet and the brilliant deep field view of the universe. But. these were just the first batch, since then the James Webb Telescope has provided scientists. with even more dazzling and awe-inspiring images of the cosmos. Some of these images have. left astronomers and cosmologists quite confused. A flood of astronomical papers has been. published since the revelation of these images and data from the JWST, a few of these papers. have incited panic among the cosmologists. But what exactly is the reason behind this wave of. panic? Well, it’s the assumption that the findings of James Webb Space Telescope are blatantly. and repeatedly contradicting the Big Bang Theory. In order to better understand what’s going. on, we first need to understand what the Big Bang exactly is.
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