#human-perception

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Philosophy
fromAeon
1 week ago

Orcas haven't changed, but our view of the killer whale has | Aeon Essays

Orcas display lethal, sophisticated, and contradictory behaviors, from abducting and killing whale calves to gifting and cooperative hunting, challenging simplified human perceptions.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Microsoft AI chief says Moltbook makes AI appear more human than it really is

"As funny as I find some of the Moltbook posts, to me they're just a reminder that AI does an amazing job of mimicking human language," Suleyman wrote. "We need to remember it's a performance, a mirage."
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
4 months ago

Humans flunk the Turing test for voices as bots get chattier

Think you can distinguish between a human voice and a robot? Think again, because the numbers are starting to say otherwise. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London found that people can no longer reliably distinguish between genuine speech and cloned AI voices. Their study, published in open-access journal PLOS One, found that when people were played recordings of real people together with AI-generated versions of the same voices, their judgments were little better than random chance.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

The all-female rescue mission to Mars: my opera about a toxic tech bro takeover of the red planet

Mars isn't just a planet. It's a philosophy, an ideology. The way humans think about it changes over time, reflecting the unstable mix of assumptions, hopes, dreams and anxieties that define each historical moment.
Philosophy
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