Researchers have put together a 30-second movie clip based on a group of mice's brain activity data that was recorded while they watched the footage
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may2024 Q4 Brain waves, visual processing & AI tech: Experiments aim to narrow the challenges of transferring knowledge from a theoretical context to a practical medical application for visually impaired people...
Fuzzy Sets, Family Resemblances, and Conceptual Truths
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may2024 Q4 Language games, family resemblances & fuzzy sets: Transferring concepts from philosophy to gender science may help see through the 'contemporary politics, ideological extremes, and conceptual confusions' that drives the pursuit of knowledge...
The science-fiction writer imagined artificial intelligence—and what it might want—long before this uncanny reality ever became our own.
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may2024 Q4 AI, Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics & Science Fiction: Taking knowledge from the context of artistic fiction to teach us something about our digital world may be challenging but it's also revealing...
Researchers believe that gestures used by great apes were an evolutionary "starting point" for our language.
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may2024 Q6 Gestures, translating apes & the language origin story: the most recent evidence confirming a theory may be surprising but is part of a chain of evidence leading back to previous experiments...
Thinking about the various challenges involved when experts transfer knowledge between contexts creates various challenges for the experts who and whether or not they underestimated these challenges. Does the analogy of growing tomatoes help understand the question?
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may2024 Q4 Mayan hieroglyphs, creative interpretations & mistranslation: how transferring knowledge from one context to another is fraught with challenges...
Our assumptions about the countryside have held us back from paying attention to catastrophes unfolding there in plain sight.
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may2024 Q4 The Romantic countryside, global warming & rewilding: transferring knowledge from an artistic context to a politically scientific one can help us learn from the past...
The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct language and meaning from stories that people hear, see or even imagine.
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may2024 Q4 'Speech decoders', fMRI data & mind reading: When taking knowledge from neuroscience and transferring it to H Sciences, We might underestimate the challenge of privacy...
The disappearance of Nicola Bulley saw armchair detectives flood the internet with uninformed and harmful speculation
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may2024 Q4 True crime, armchair detectives & social media circuses: when non-experts take knowledge out of its original context and transfer it into another context, they underestimate the real pain and suffering caused to victims of crime.
This courageous account puts the indigenous Americans who came to Europe, most as slaves, at the centre of the story
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may2024 Q4 Columbus, legal fictions & colonial history: when transferring knowledge of the past from a western context to an indigenous one 'convincingly shatter[s] conventional historical framing'...
Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
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may2024 Q4 Large Language Models, tech progress & 'inflection points': experts explore if we've underestimated the impact of transferring applications of AI from an academic context to the context of work, especially artists & 'knowledge workers'...
On nights and weekends, Justin Gilmer attacked an old question in pure math using the tools of information theory.
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may2024 Q4 The 'union-closed conjecture', Information Theory & uncertainty: overcoming the challenge of applying techniques from one math context to solve a problem in another, successfully.
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