[Music] The moment we adopt blindly adopt a religion or a political system or literary dogma become automatons. This was said by Ana Nin who is a French essayist. I'm Sundam and today I'm going to talk about a very deep a very deeply intriguing and important aspect of human nature.The rationality of human reasoning. Now this sounds a bit conducting isn't it. I mean reasoning is basically rationality and the rationality of human rationality doesn't make much sense.It's paradoxical. While we humans like to th ...

[Music] You know, it has been a rough week for Elon Musk and his AI chatbot, Grock. First, it went on a racist and anti-Semitic posting spree on Tuesday, which was followed by Ex's CEO, Linda Yakarino, announcing her resignation the next day. Grock has since issued an apology for the anti-Semitic posts it made, which included praising Hitler.Musk's company posted on X that it apologizes for quote the horrific behavior that many experienced. The post noted that the root cause of the posts was an update to a ...

Core Insights - Skydance CEO David Ellison is in early discussions to acquire Bari Weiss's online news site, The Free Press, potentially to integrate her right-of-center perspective into CBS News following the approval of Skydance's merger with Paramount [1][5][4] Group 1: Company Developments - The Free Press was founded by Bari Weiss in 2021 after her departure from the New York Times, aiming to provide an alternative to left-leaning media [2][13] - The site has over 136,000 subscribers paying approximately $8 per month, with a total of around 1.5 million free and paid subscribers [16] - Skydance is awaiting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for its $8 billion merger with Paramount Global, which has faced scrutiny over alleged liberal bias in CBS News [5][17] Group 2: Key Individuals - David Ellison has been in talks with Bari Weiss for several months regarding her potential role in shaping CBS News' editorial direction, although not in a managerial capacity [3][4] - Weiss has been vocal about her experiences with media bias and has created content addressing various controversial topics, including antisemitism and media trust issues [14][15] Group 3: Industry Context - The discussions between Ellison and Weiss are taking place against the backdrop of CBS News's ongoing challenges with its editorial direction and internal culture, which some sources describe as resistant to change [7][8][10] - The recent settlement of a lawsuit involving CBS News and President Trump highlights the network's contentious relationship with conservative figures and the implications for its editorial stance [6][12]

When I turned 25, I was gifted a whole host of things. Anxiety, back pain, and ADHD diagnosis. But I thought, you know, at least my brain is fully developed now.So, who else has heard that. That your prefrontal cortex fully develops by 25. Congratulations.You fell for the same lie that I did. So there has not been a single study that actually says your brain fully develops by 25. What happened was that there were a series of studies then that showed different levels of maturity between your late teenage yea ...

Raise your hand if you ever told yourself that you're just going to check Instagram or Tik Tok for five minutes and you grab your phone and you're scrolling and you're scrolling and you look up and it's an hour later. Has anyone been there. Right.It's like these apps have this six sense for knowing exactly what you're into. Whether it's showing you promotional content from that movie that you casually mentioned at lunch or it's those oddly satisfying cleaning videos that you just cannot stop watching. Whate ...

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] You would be surprised of some of the experiences that my patients have had in healthcare. I had a patient who went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain. We'll call her Amy.Now, typically imaging is done to figure out the cause of abdominal pain, but Amy, she didn't have any imaging done, and she was discharged home. She followed up with me the next day, and after reviewing her blood work, I ordered a CT scan, which should have been done in the emergency room, and I ...

[Music] [Applause] Have you ever tried to convince a diehard Ronaldo fan how Messi is clearly the better player. or told an Italian friend how pineapple actually belongs on pizza. If you have, you know how frustrating yet almost impossible it feels to change someone's mind.But why is this so difficult. The answer lies in what Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein describes as the information cocoon. The information cocoon is a social phenomenon.It describes how social media and news algorithm surround us with ...

[Music] [Applause] So artificial intelligence is reshaping our world. Currently it is changing how we predict the weather, how we detect diseases, how we access loans or produce music, but even how we fight in wars. More and more frequently, artificial intelligence is deciding what we buy, what we watch in the evening when we are tired, but even who we interact with on social media.And this is why we must ask ourself whose world is this artificial intelligence reflecting. AI is no longer just a tool. Right ...

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Cognitive Biases and Pattern Recognition - The human brain is wired to identify patterns for survival, but this can lead to finding patterns where they don't exist, a phenomenon called apophenia [1][2][3][4] - Cognitive biases, like availability bias, can cause inaccurate or illogical decision-making, even among skilled professionals such as doctors [5][6][7] - Emotions can impair the ability to understand probability objectively, leading to misinterpretations of data and potentially harmful consequences [9][10][11][12] Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - AI is a fast and accurate pattern detector capable of processing vast amounts of data, but it is trained on human data and can therefore reflect human biases [7][8][13] - AI can surface potential diagnoses that human doctors may not consider, highlighting its potential as a diagnostic tool [15][16] - A partnership between AI and human intelligence is crucial for accurate diagnoses and better decision-making in high-stakes situations [17][18] Numeracy and Probability - Numeracy, the ability to understand and work with numbers, and probability are essential for objective decision-making [8][9] - Misunderstanding probability can lead to severe consequences, as illustrated by the Sally Clark case where incorrect statistical analysis resulted in a wrongful conviction [10][11][12]