How to Picture A.I. | The New Yorker
A technology by itself is never enough. In order for it to be of use, it needs to be accompanied by other elements, such as popular understanding, good habits, and acceptance of shared responsibility for its consequences. Without that kind of societal halo, technologies tend to be used ineffectively or incompletely. A good example of […]
Neural-network brain scans are revealing how to boost your creativity
Practising mindfulness can increase creative thinking Gilaxia/Getty Images FROM Jane Austen to Albert Einstein, Zaha Hadid to Ai Weiwei, it is easy to name people who have advanced the thinking of humankind – but it is much harder to explain why people like this think so much more creatively than the rest of us. Are their […]
Sleep tech: How to take control of your dreams to boost learning and creativity
WHEN an ancient Egyptian sought an encounter with Bes, the god of fertility and childbirth, they would draw an image of the deity on their hand, wrap that hand and their neck with black cloth, and then settle down to sleep. This practice, described in a papyrus that dates to around 1350 BC, is the […]