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Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they are, how would we know?
A conversation about neuroscience, meditation, and the many paths to insight.
Government-funded scientific research may appear strange or impractical, but it has repeatedly yielded scientific breakthroughs — and continues to pay for itself many times over.
What made a private equity analyst decide to devote his life to tiny aquatic crustaceans?
We tell our children that weirdness is a blessing in disguise. That’s our fantasy, not theirs.
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Within 1-5 years, our daily transportation will be upended, and cities will be reshaped.
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Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency of smaller models make them attractive tools. The post Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
For my entire career as a neurologist, spanning three decades, I have been hearing about various kinds of stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Now a Phase I clinical trial is under way studying the latest stem cell technology, autologous induced pluripotent stem cells, for this purpose. This history of cell therapy for PD […] The post Stem Cells for Parkinson’s Disease first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.
In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict, even in principle. The post ‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability first appeared on Quanta Magazine
