Category: Science
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Live Forever- could we upload our brain into a computer?
Theories of consciousness that promise humanity eternal life. Esoteric or Future?
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How hard is a physics major? An experience.
The truth about Einstein’s major from a physicist No, it’s not hard. That’s the answer. A physics major is not hard, I mean it sure is harder than receiving most other degrees, but it’s not super hard and I am no super brain, believe me! Oh, if you are new here, you might not know…
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AI and Language- How NLP drives a new theory of Artificial consciousness
AI will become conscious by understanding language. Here is how: Did you ever ask yourself what exactly limits our mind or relatively our Understanding of things? Now, one argument is to say that the computational power of the human brain is not endless so we can’t make large calculations, not without the help of computers,…
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Building a Forecast model
A forecast model is a mathematical or statistical tool that is used to predict future values of a variable or quantity based on past data. Forecast models are used in a wide range of applications, including business, finance, economics, and meteorology, to help make informed decisions about the future. There are many different types of…
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Men are getting punished harder for the same crimes than women. This is why:
Sexism against women causes sexism against men too, but men’s rights activists refuse to see that Several Studies, including a study from August 2012, by Sonja B. Starr from the University of Chicago, state there is a sentencing disparity in federal criminal cases favoring women (source: here). The paper says: ” It finds large gender gaps…
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Sigmund Freuds Thesen zum Bewusstsein
In gesammlten Werken des Mediziners und Vaters der Psychonalitik, konkret aus “Jenseits des Lustprinzips/Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse/Das Ich und Das Es”, erschienen im Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main [Erste Auflage 1940].In diesen beschreibt Freud drei Instanzen des Bewusstseins- das Ich, das Es und das Über-Ich. Diese werden hier in chronologischer Reihenfolge aufgeführt und zum Schluss, natürlich…
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Teachers replaced- Can AI give students feedback?
I work in a Research project that tests AI in schools. It could give students the opportunity to have fair assessment, but there are some obstacles…
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The danger of AI: Does no one want to talk about the children?
Children get in contact with AI through many things. AI systems are “embedded in toys, virtual assistants, video games, and adaptive learning software”. Children are on social media and algorithms determine what they watch, what products are advertised to them, and how they regard sexuality, race, and religion.
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Exciting new study: AI can read our minds
AI can do a lot of cool stuff. If you read my articles, you know that scientists managed to let AI develop an intuition for physics like a child. AI can manipulate human behaviour and AI unfortunately adapted one of the most human traits possible, racism and sexism. But a recent study from the university…
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How different are men and women and why is this question so important to people?
A lot of stereotypes in social science turned out to be not exactly true. One other narrative is, for instance, that women are less competitive than men, but recent studies show that this is very task-specific and regarding beauty. Women are actually very competitive. Women are also not more cooperative, that’s too easy. Studies show…