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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

“At the same time, participants gain knowledge about science, scientific processes and the natural components they study. We wondered whether there was a link between connections to place and the learning that occurs there.” Why is citizen science important? Ben and Julia used two social science research methods to gather data.

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

Futurum

Deepfake — manipulation of existing digital media (image, video and/or audio) – e.g., by swapping faces and changing voices – or creation of new media, typically using machine learning-based techniques such as deep learning. For technical degrees and careers, subjects like computer science and mathematics can be useful.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Sales or education jobs where one wants “human persuasion” or “human encouragement”. But actual evolution seems more like deep learning with a large neural net—where one’s effectively operating in an extremely high-dimensional space where there’s typically always a “way to get there from here”, at least given enough time.

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