Category: Humans
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Google Bard is dead. We were alive long before...
Google decided to discontinue the name 'Bard' from its LLM AI and replace it with Gemini. The new engine seems better and less... human. It responds to questions in a more specific and professional way (not that Bard lacked professionalism) and has less tendency to do... jokes. Yes, Bard had a sense of humor. Once…
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Death from the sky. Life from below…
Although tales of people being killed by meteorite impacts date back to biblical times. But few deaths, if any, have been documented. Turkish researchers uncovered the earliest evidence that a meteorite killed one man and paralyzed another when it slammed into a hilltop in what is now Iraq in August 1888. Documents chronicling the event…
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Bots. Humans.
Social media bots are continuously evolving and becoming more 'human-like' in the way they talk and interact on online platforms. Previous research has focused on bot detection, but little attention has been devoted to the characterization and measurement of the behavior and activity of bots, compared to humans. In this study, researchers have revealed distinct…
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What is an individual?
It's almost impossible to imagine biology without individuals -- individual organisms, individual cells, and individual genes, for example. But what about a worker ant that never reproduces, and could never survive apart from the colony? Are the trillions of microorganisms in our microbiomes, which vastly outnumber our human cells, part of our individuality? The authors…
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Fairy tales...
But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.~ C.S. Lewis When we are kids we love fairy tales. But now we have grown up. And we consider fairy tales... fairy tales. Now we believe in science. Now we believe in what we can see. Now we believe in us…
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