ToK Essays Nov 2024

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

Fuzzy Sets, Family Resemblances, and Conceptual Truths

The science-fiction writer imagined artificial intelligence—and what it might want—long before this uncanny reality ever became our own.

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.

On nights and weekends, Justin Gilmer attacked an old question in pure math using the tools of information theory.

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.

The disappearance of Nicola Bulley saw armchair detectives flood the internet with uninformed and harmful speculation

This courageous account puts the indigenous Americans who came to Europe, most as slaves, at the centre of the story

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?