Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said Tuesday that the U.S. banking industry will embrace cryptocurrencies for payments if regulators allow it. The head of the second largest U.S. bank by assets was asked by CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin about how the industry’s approach to crypto could change given President Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for digital […]
There were many issues on the table in the 2024 election. The most fundamental one, though, was the contest between the moral code of the West and its chief rival. Nothing is more central to Western civilization than the idea that moral requirements must be universalizable.
Attending a psychology conference this month, I was struck by an unsettling trend in social-science research. The abstract book revealed that nearly all of the 1,500 posters and talks related to some kind of confirmatory work — using statistical analyses to test an existing hypothesis. Hardly any reported the sort of open-ended exploratory research needed […]
Getty Images Described as a virtual singer powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Mya Blue says: “I am not the enemy, I am just a music lover exploring the different sounds of the world.” Her Instagram account, where she makes this statement, has the tag line: “I may not be human but I sing from my […]
There is a belief in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli government that a Trump administration will allow it to end its wars on favorable terms.
Adobe is going all in on generative AI models and tools, even if that means turning away creators who dislike the technology. Artists who refuse to embrace AI in their work are “not going to be successful in this new world without using it,” says Alexandru Costin, vice president of generative AI at Adobe. In […]
Scared? Good. How Fear Fuels Success And Why You Should Embrace It getty How often do you catch yourself thinking, “I Can’t Do This”? That little voice in our heads can be pretty convincing, and it’s often loudest when we’re facing something new and intimidating. But what if we started pushing back? What if, instead […]
When you think of what makes us human, would you say it’s our powers of prediction? I probably wouldn’t have, at least not until my conversation with Mark Miller, a philosopher of cognition and research fellow at both the University of Toronto and Monash University in Melbourne. He studies how new ideas about the mind […]
