The true game-changer was 2020’s The Last of Us, Part 2. The makers "decided to do a lot of experimenting and consulting with gamers with disabilities. They eventually added more than 60 different accessibility options to the game.” - NPR
Researchers found that after learning negative information about the artists, participants rated the paintings less favorably. Specifically, paintings by artists associated with negative biographical details were liked less, found more arousing, and judged to be of lower quality compared to those associated with neutral information. - PsyPost
By using it to provide ideas, options, and solutions beyond the capabilities of a small and, perhaps limited, management team, smaller companies can overcome limitations of time, personnel, and resources. - Harvard Business Review
As artificial intelligence systems outpace human performance on an increasing array of cognitive tasks, they risk undermining the intellectual supremacy upon which we have long staked our self-worth. - Psychology Today
How do the reasons we read the news line up with the reasons we say we read news? Do we claim dedication to noble civic virtues when all we really want is true crime podcasts? Do we read high-brow journalism on its merits or just so we can look smart to our peers? - NiemanLab
Children do not use cellular technology; the technology uses our children—by monetizing their data and converting their attention into advertising revenue. - The Walrus
Computers might in fact approach what we call thinking, but they don’t dream, or want, or desire, and this matters more than AI’s proponents let on—not just for why we think but what we end up thinking. - The Walrus
“I am staring in horror at something on my phone or laptop, and no matter how many other people are also staring in horror at that thing, somewhere, many of us are sitting alone. We look, and we look, and then there’s another thing, and another." - Reactor Magazine
For instance: “Could AI take over the bulk of legal work or is there an underlying thread of creativity and judgment of the type only speculative super AI could hope to tackle? … Where do we draw the line between general and specific tasks?" - Fast Company
That’s the plan at the urban, fully blended into the city Portland State University, which is in the final stages of a design competition to “revitalize” Portland’s much-derided (mostly, but not only, by conservatives) downtown. - Oregon ArtsWatch
No media consumer is an easier mark than the guilt-ridden parent, whose perseverations about not paying enough attention can be amplified a millionfold by graphic pop-culture warnings about teen temptations. What’s so different about leaving kids to spend seven hours a day on screens? - Racket News
Language has been a central object of philosophical attention ever since the ‘linguistic turn’ in the beginning of the 20th century. What can the emergence of a second language-producing entity tell us here? - 3 Quarks Daily
