Gabriel Snyder

2 months ago | newsweek.com | Gabriel Snyder

"The neuroscience community doesn't have a single definition of intelligence," says David Eagleman, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University. This fundamental uncertainty about the very thing we're trying to recreate in machines is the starting point for how Eagleman approaches artificial intelligence.

Feb 24, 2025 | newsweek.com | Gabriel Snyder

Rodney Brooks shares, in the first of Newsweek’s AI Impact interview series, what 50 years of experience has taught him about AI hype cyclesRodney Brooks shares, in the first of Newsweek’s AI Impact interview series, what 50 years of experience has taught him about AI hype cyclesPhoto-illustration by Newsweek/Getty news article Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.

Jun 27, 2024 | flaminghydra.com | Gabriel Snyder

by Gabriel SnyderWhat would Donald Trump actually do if he actually became president again? It’s been all too easy, especially if you have enjoyed tuning out his bombast since he left the White House, to lose track of his violent lurches from one shock and horror to another.

Apr 17, 2024 | flaminghydra.com | Gabriel Snyder

by Gabriel SnyderAs Donald Trump’s first criminal trial opens, a certain conventional wisdom holds that the criminal indictment alleging payments of hush money and business records falsifications addresses the “least” significant of the crimes he’s been accused of; and that being so, the reasoning goes, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has risked devaluing the weightier prosecutions Trump faces, and may have made a critical mistake in charging the case at all. This is hokum.

Mar 22, 2024 | flaminghydra.com | Gabriel Snyder

by Gabriel SnyderAh! I am very glad you asked me about my belt buckle. When I was growing up in the South, I kind of always had an obsession with big leather belts with the showy Honky Tonk buckles. They were a little glamorous, as well as a little menacing–especially to anyone who as a child had found themselves on the business end of that leather strap, as I had. But I never got one until someone gave me a leather belt, but no buckle, in early 2017, just after the Trump election.