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When people don’t feel like their needs for connection to others are being met, they experience a feeling of loneliness. Everyone feels lonely every once in a while, but feeling lonely over the long-term is
Are Americans afraid to speak their minds? According to a recent study, “the land of the free and the home of the brave” has become a place of self-censorship. Two-thirds of us say that we
Source: Art: DALL-E/OpenAI A recent study on OpenAI’s “o1” model offers a glimpse into the evolving role of AI in medicine. Notably, “o1” outperforms GPT-4 in medical question-answering by an average of 6.2%, suggesting that
Isn’t it weird how some days you wake feeling super sharp, highly creative, and can get more done in one day than the entire last week? But the next day, you can barely drag yourself
Source: Art: DALL-E/OpenAI There’s an age-old debate: Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? In today’s digital age, we might ask a new question: Does technology imitate humanity, or are we now imitating
