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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

We wondered whether there was a link between connections to place and the learning that occurs there.” Why is citizen science important? While formal science education – the science we study in school or college – provides important scientific skills and knowledge, a lot of learning occurs outside of formal settings.

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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

But by now there are endless examples of machine learning systems that do well at reproducing human judgement in lots of domains. Could we “learn how to make sense of it”? But an alternative approach—more aligned with machine learning—is just to give examples, and (implicitly or explicitly) say “follow these”.

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