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Made in Our Image
We can’t predict the future of artificial intelligence, but we do know its origin: us. The models we use today were trained on unfathomably huge sums of human-generated text: our books and blogs, our science and myths, our jokes and lies. In the output of language models, we see glimpses of ourselves refracted through a strange new form of intelligence we’re only beginning to understand.
The idea of a “permanent underclass” started as a meme. It’s tapping real anxieties in Silicon Valley.
This article is part of Big Think’s fall 2026 special issue, Made in Our Image. History and SocietyArtificial IntelligenceAnxietyCareer DevelopmentHuman Behavior A rationalist blog forum popular in the Bay Area, LessWrong is known for its sprawling, hyper-logical takes on everything from AI research to optimal reproductive strategies.
Liquid fertilizer loading saves time, trouble
A self-loading system helps busy North Dakota farmers move liquid fertilizer to fields faster. “The automated system allows growers to self-load liquid fertilizer tanks quickly and efficiently, 24/7,” says Brennen Boll, location manager at CHS Dakota Plains Ag in Mooreton, N.D. Here’s how it works: Drivers enter a loading bay and punch in a load number at a kiosk, connect the spout to the tank and receive their liquid fertilizer. The transaction prints at the kiosk.
Inteligencia visual. Agudiza tu percepción, cambia tu vida Amy E. Herman - espacioLogopedico
¿Cómo puede ayudar a ahorrar millones a tu empresa la contemplación de los cuadros de nenúfares de Monet? ¿Cómo puede frustrar un ataque terrorista la observación del calzado que lleva la gente? ¿Cómo puede vencer en una discusión, tranquilizar a tus hijos o ayudar a atrapar a un ladrón tu elección de un adjetivo? En su célebre seminario El Arte de la Percepción, la historiadora del arte Amy Herman ha enseñado a percibir y a comunicarse mejor a expertos de muchos campos.
smART: Use Your Eyes to Boost Your Brain
I Spy and Where's Waldo? get a revolutionary twist in this fun, eye-opening (Booklist) young readers edition on how to fully engage your brain to think critically and creatively. What would you say if I told you that looking at art could give you the confidence you need to speak up in class? Or that learning the history of donuts could help you think like a super spy and train like the CIA?
The Top 8 Creativity Books of 2022
HomeEntertainmentThe Top 8 Creativity Books of 2022 2022 has been an amazing year for books of all kinds, and creativity books are no exception. And yet with so many great titles, where do you start? At the Next Big Idea Club, we crunched the numbers to identify the creativity books that were loved most by our tens of thousands of app users.
The Top 8 Creativity Books of 2022
2022 has been an amazing year for books of all kinds, and creativity books are no exception. And yet with so many great titles, where do you start? At the Next Big Idea Club, we crunched the numbers to identify the creativity books that were loved most by our tens of thousands of app users.
The Saturday Evening Post
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! Thanks to a wireless web with a constant flow of information available to us anytime, anywhere, there are more things competing for our attention than ever before. Today more people have access to cellphones than to working toilets, and the average person checks their phone 110 times a day and nearly once every 6 seconds in the evening.
How Leaders Can See Solutions Amidst the Shards
Everything is broken. A new normal eludes us, so we plod on. There is a better way for leaders to see our world in a changed and more productive light. The solution to so many setbacks has roots in an unlikely practice that’s right before our eyes: how we look at works of art.
Balthus "Therese Dreaming" 1938: Should we hold modern art to the standards of #MeToo?
What should we do with the art created by people who commit great wrongs? In his recent article about the sexual abuse allegations against esteemed conductor James Levine, New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini wondered whether he should purge the maestro’s greatest recordings from his collection. Ultimately, Tommasini reasons that the revelations about Levine’s behavior do not tarnish the quality of the artist’s music.
Letter to the Editor: Those pesky plastic bags
Recently, I saw a video about a stranded whale off the Norway coast where scientistsfound the whale's stomach and intestines full of plastic bags and packaging with labels in Danish and English. The creature had very little blubber and was emaciated, and in severe pain. The wardens had to put it down.Researchers estimate the amount of plastic in the ocean is set to increase 10-fold by 2020 — three short years from now.
How visually intelligent are you? Amy Herman on perception and the pertinent negative
Amy Herman Amy E. Herman, JD, MA, designed, developed and conducts all sessions of The Art of Perception. While working as Head of Education at The Frick Collection, she instituted the program for medical students to improve their observation skills.
Art that makes us uncomfortable can make us smarter, more empathetic citizens
The canon of Western art is replete with images of the sublime and inspirational. But it also includes myriad pieces that depict violence, racial injustice, and pain—from Nicolas Poussin’s Abduction of the Sabine Women to Picasso’s Guernica to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. Such art forces viewers to confront what makes us uncomfortable. We learn the value of looking closely at things that we don’t like or understand—a habit that many of us otherwise seek to avoid.
Can anything be art? An art historian explains why not
It’s a thought that has occurred to many a museum visitor upon confronting Jackson Pollock’s splattered canvases or Yoko Ono’s apple on a pedestal: I could do that. A pair of teenagers recently put that sneaking suspicion to the test. High school students TJ Khayatan and Kevin Nguyen were unimpressed with the exhibits at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
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