Big Survey Of Scientists: 5% Chance AI Causes Human Extinction
“Those findings come from a survey of 2700 AI researchers who have recently published work at six of the top AI conferences – the largest such survey to date.”
On The Health Benefits Of 30 Minutes Of Walking
The Incas Could Write With Knots. How This Works Is Just Becoming Clear
“There are all sorts of varying factors in khipus: the colour of the strings, the structure of the knots and the direction in which they were hitched. Having spent countless hours poring over them, Urton began to think that binary differences in these features might be encoding information. For example, a basic knot tied in […]
Teens Don’t Appear To Adjust Performance In High Stakes Settings?
The team found that while the older volunteers performed better in the high stakes rounds, the younger ones didn’t – their performance didn’t change in line with whether the stakes were low or high. And the older the volunteers were, the more improved their performance was.”