Tag: Humans
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Species loss endangers humans
A growing worldwide concern of recent times is the extent to which life nurturing conditions have been disrupted.
June 15, 2019 -
Communication, emotions and AI
One of the main characteristics that distinguish humans from other living beings is their ability to communicate among themselves, both verbally as well as in writing. Humans interact using specific languages which have well-defined vocabularies, grammars and compositions. It would be interesting to examine what advantages we gained from this ability and to what extent …
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November 4, 2018 -
Meat causes global warming
Meat is consumed on a massive scale across the world, with billions of animals killed every year.
October 13, 2018 -
Why do flies sit on humans?
It is so energy expensive for them. They are brushed away a thousand times, swatted, hurt, and killed. So why don't they sit on animals, or even furniture?
July 15, 2018 -
The end rather than the means
The New Caledonian crow’s style of learning may resemble the one followed by primitive humans.
July 4, 2018 -
Whose health is it?
Why are we wasting billions of rupees killing millions of animals in testing when it isn’t leading to any medical advancement?
June 24, 2018 -
Becoming slaves to machines
Recently, I have been listening to my dad a lot; he happens to be a great fan of physicist and futurist Michio Kaku. After hours of discussion, I constantly get reminded of an essay that I studied while in school. The essay is titled ‘Time and Machine’ and is written by Isaac Asimov. In the …
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May 29, 2018 -
Microsoft AI translates Chinese to English like humans
A team of Microsoft researchers, including one of Indian-origin, has created an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered machine system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as humans. Researchers from the company’s Asia and US labs said their system achieved human parity on a commonly-used test set of …
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March 15, 2018 -
New AI system can negotiate deals better than humans
Scientists have created a new artificial intelligence system that can negotiate a compromise and maintain relationships more effectively than humans. Researchers programmed machines with an algorithm called S# and ran them through a variety of two-player games to see how well they would cooperate in certain relationships. The team from Brigham Young University (BYU) and …
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January 21, 2018 -
Deep and thought-provoking
Dorothy Elmiger’s Shift Sleepers reads as a collage of voices with the narratives interweaving, interrupting and overlapping with one another.
December 31, 2017 -
Punishment not effective to make humans cooperate: study
Punishment might not be an effective way to get people to cooperate for the common good, a study has found. Human societies maintain their stability by forming cooperative partnerships. However, cooperation often comes at a cost. For example, a person taking time to raise alarm in order to alert other members of a group to …
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December 28, 2017 -
New neural network chip system can help machines think like humans
Scientists have developed a new type of neural network chip that can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans. The network, called a reservoir computing system, could predict words before they are said during the conversation, and help predict future outcomes based on the present. Reservoir computing systems, which improve on …
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December 24, 2017 -
Humans like faulty robots more than flawless ones
Humans prefer interacting with faulty robots significantly more than with robots that function and behave flawlessly, new research has found. For the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI, researchers examined how people react to robots that exhibit faulty behaviour compared to perfectly performing robots. "Our results showed that the participants liked …
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August 7, 2017 -
Humans made of matter from distant galaxies
Humans may be made of particles that travelled from distant galaxies, say scientists who found that more than half of the matter in the Milky Way was transported through intergalactic winds. Researchers from Northwestern University in the US, using supercomputer simulations, found a major and unexpected new mode for how galaxies, including our own Milky …
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July 27, 2017 -
Humans turning Earth into ‘plastic planet’
Humans have created 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastics since early 1950s, and most of it now resides in landfills or the natural environment, a study has found. Researchers, including those from the University of Georgia (UGA) in the US, found that by 2015, humans had generated 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastics, 6.3 billion …
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July 21, 2017 -
Humans first settled in Australia 65,000 years ago
The first settlers arrived in Australia at least 65,000 years ago, drastically altering the known history of the trek out of Africa by modern humans, a study has found. The world-first finding, which follows years of archaeological digging in an ancient camp-site beneath a sandstone rock shelter within the Jabiluka mining lease in Kakadu, Northern …
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July 20, 2017 -
Ravens can plan for future like humans
It is well known that ravens are smart but a new study shows the birds may be more intelligent than we previously thought. Experiments conducted by Swedish researchers found that ravens can plan ahead for different types of events and they are willing to forgo an immediate reward for a better one in the future, …
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July 16, 2017