Computer Sciences
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Consumer & Gadgets
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Machine learning & AI
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Consumer & Gadgets
If you are like most people, you probably spend more time than you want scrolling, clicking and surfing through content online. But why? It is a habit that can often prevent you from paying attention to what matters to you.
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Machine learning & AI
In 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines think? He suggested if a human couldn't tell whether they were speaking to an artificially intelligent ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
There's no doubt generative AI's ability to rapidly produce new texts, images and audio is shaking up creative jobs.
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Computer Sciences
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Consumer & Gadgets
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Consumer & Gadgets
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Computer Sciences
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Cognition is the scientific term for "the process of thought". Its usage varies in different ways in accord with different disciplines: For example, in psychology and cognitive science it refers to an information processing view of an individual's psychological functions. Other interpretations of the meaning of cognition link it to the development of concepts; individual minds, groups, organizations, and even larger coalitions of entities, can be modelled as "societies" (Society of Mind), which cooperate to form concepts.
The autonomous elements of each 'society' would have the opportunity to demonstrate emergent behavior in the face of some crisis or opportunity. Cognition can also be interpreted as "understanding and trying to make sense of the world".
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