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What a psychotherapist learned during his chats with a large language model

2 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Robert Saltzman in The Hedgehog Review:What does it mean to say, " I am aware," when that sentence might be as much a performance as a report? That is the edge we now stand on. The question is not whether AI is sentient but how the invention of such accurate, coherent, convincing mirrors reflects upon our own experience of sentience, insight, and presence. We assume a great deal about our status as self-aware beings.
What a psychotherapist learned during his chats with a large language model - 3 Quarks Daily

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6 hours agoFacial Stimulation Clears Brain Waste and Boosts Aging MindsResearchers have discovered a safe, non-invasive way to enhance the brain’s waste clearance system by mechanically stimulating lymphatic vessels just …11 hours agoFuture Forecasting The Yearly Path That Will Advance AI To Reach AGI By 2040In today’s column, I am continuing my special series on the likely pathways that will get us from conventional AI to the avidly sought attainment of AGI (artificial general intelligence).
Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic

2 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Jane Qiu in Nature:The world is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, which many researchers say probably started, or was at least amplified, at a market selling live animals in Wuhan, China1,2. Yet the wildlife trade still thrives in many parts of the globe. China banned the farming and trading of most wildlife species for food in 2020, but these practices have simply gone underground.
Why Ukraine's Drone Attack on Russia Changes War Forever

2 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza
Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?

2 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Jessi Jezewska Stevens in The Guardian:Faced with unrelenting Russian aggression and the simultaneous withdrawal of American military and diplomatic support, European countries across the continent are reinvesting in defence. But civilian protection - non-military measures for civil defence, including the construction of nuclear and air raid bunkers - has also emerged as a fresh priority.
When Elvis and Ella were pressed onto X-rays

3 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Richard Gunderman in The Conversation:By using electrical microphones, amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, record companies could capture a far wider range of sound frequencies, with much higher fidelity. For the first time, recorded sound closely resembled what a live listener would hear. Over the ensuing years, sales of vinyl records and record players boomed. The technology also allowed some enterprising music fans to make recordings in surprising and innovative ways.
Lack of health insurance explains about five to twenty percent of the mortality disparity between high- and low-income Americans

3 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Angela Wyse & Bruce D. Meyer at the National Bureau of Economic Research:We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to administrative tax data.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome

3 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza
On capitalism's critics, why everyone is so unhappy with the system, and what may come next

3 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

James Surowiecki at The Yale Review:This is a pivotal moment for American capitalism. Even though GDP and household incomes have grown steadily in this century, most Americans say they feel dissatisfied with the state of the economy and believe that the country's economic future will be worse than its past.
Seamus Heaney, A Smiling Public Man

4 days ago | 3quarksdaily.com | S. Abbas Raza

Jeffrey Meyers at Salmagundi:Seamus Heaney was born on April 13,1939 (12 days after me) and 3 months after the death of Yeats. The Letters* begin in 1965, his miraculous year. His first book, Death of a Naturalist, was accepted by Faber & Faber; he got a teaching job at his alma mater, Queen's University in Belfast; and he married Marie Devlin, whom he was pleased to call Madame and Herself.