Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Thursday, September 14, 2023

AI Compositions and Their Influence on Letters as Signals

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In Cory Doctorow's latest column, he brings up a potential unintended byproduct of overusing "large language models," aka chat...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Telepaths and Language

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One panel I attended at this year's RavenCon was about communicating with aliens. I brought up the question of whether a telepathic spec...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The Internet of Trees

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An old song laments, "I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me." Apparently, however, trees listen to each other. Some...
Thursday, July 01, 2021

Talking with Aliens

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When extraterrestrials visit our planet, or vice versa, will we be able to communicate with them? This article discusses the issue of learni...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Whale Culture

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Do animals have culture, defined as the customs of a particular social group? Not too long ago, established science would have answered with...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Social Media in the Raging 20s

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In her latest LOCUS post, Kameron Hurley writes about tension and anxiety in the era of instantaneous communication and miscommunication: ...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

Brain-to-Computer Communication

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A research project at Stanford University enables paralyzed people to type on computers by moving a cursor with their thoughts: Brain-Comp...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Fatal Courtesy

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My post today is about the disastrous consequences of inappropriate language in the cockpit, but IMHO it has interesting applications for wo...