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Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a robust artificial ...
How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
How Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world. On balance, will AI help human...
Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science
In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipul...
The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind
A New York University psychologist argues that the mind is a "kluge"-a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption-as he ponders the accidents of evolution t...
How A Tiny Number Of Genes Creates The Complexities Of Human Thought
A psychologist offers a detailed study of the genetic underpinnings of human thought, looking at the small number of genes that contain the instructio...
The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age
On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how ...
The New Musician and the Science of Learning
An NYU professor of psychology describes how he was able to learn to play the guitar in midlife in spite of a limited musical aptitude, revealing what...
Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill t...
How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought
In The Birth of the Mind , award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of t...
The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
Arguing against a whole tradition that praises our human minds as the most perfect result of evolution, Marcus shows how imperfect and ill-adapted our...
The author describes how he was able to learn to play the guitar in midlife in spite of a limited musical aptitude, revealing what he learned about th...
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The Science of Learning to be Musical
Follows the efforts of Peter Cottontail to compete against the nefarious Iron Tail in order to secure his position as the Easter Bunny....
Peter is to announce Easter, but he has laryngitis....