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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

Futurum

Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer. Published: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) link the brain directly to external computers, allowing users to do something just by thinking it. TALK LIKE A … COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Brains and computers share lots of similarities. How do BCIs work?

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2024 Spotlight: Women Leading the Way in STEM

STEM Sport

She is known for her impactful contributions in both chemistry and biology, where much of her career has been focused on cell surface sugars that are key to human health and disease. Dr. Fei-Fei Li Dr. Fei-Fei Li is a well-known computer scientist with degrees from Princeton University and California Institute of Technology.

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Is Working in AI a Good Career Choice?

CTE Learning

Our Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robotics course teaches a new level of understanding of systems, coding, biology, and behavior to middle school and high school students interested in learning the soft skills and hard skills that will be in demand for decades to come.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

And all I’ll be able to do here is give a snapshot of my current thinking—which will inevitably be incomplete—not least because, as I’ll discuss, trying to predict how history in an area like this will unfold is something that runs straight into an issue of basic science: the phenomenon of computational irreducibility. So what is ChatGPT ?

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Developing new kinds of computational diagrams. In the end—with a few trips in the middle, notably to see a total solar eclipse —it took me a couple of months to get my remote-CEO setup figured out (with a swank computer-connected fax machine, email getting autodelivered every 15 minutes, etc.). Figuring out more and more science.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work?

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