AI chatbots know more about you than you realize

“From a few basic questions, the kind of day-to-day things you might ask a friend or family member, an AI chatbot can learn more about you than those who have known you for years. Emotional maturity, relationship status, financial constraints, professional ambition, and even your health — none of which you were asked about directly, and most of which you hadn’t realized you’d shared. Using the powerful pattern processing inherent to artificial intelligence, chatbots simply inferred these details. For years, the ability to build such a rich profile of you required something only a handful of companies had: the infrastructure to collect and process your online behavior on a massive scale. That’s no longer true. Now, that same understanding can emerge from a single exchange — and the privacy consequences are profound.”

The Straits Times »

Subscriptions are canceled, creativity is not

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Quantum physics can confirm where someone is located

“An urgent call comes in from the White House. But the recipient is skeptical: They need a way to verify that the message comes from the purported location. Quantum physics has a solution. Scientists have demonstrated a quantum technique to ensure that someone is in the location they claim to be, physicist Abigail Gookin reported … Called quantum position verification, the technique is based on the concept of quantum entanglement, in which the fates of two far-flung particles are closely linked.”

ScienceNews »

Survival of the wittiest

“Killjoys and scatterbrains might have propelled the evolution of the human species. This is, essentially, the theory proposed by linguist Ljiljana Progovac… Progovac argues that clever verb-noun compounds like killjoy — which has a bit more punch than joy killer — were the earliest forms of verbal wit and helped the species survive. They enabled our ancestors to both soothe tempers with humor and compete with words rather than with fists. The wittier the human, the more likely that human would survive.”

Nautilus »

Finally, no one’s watching

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How can you tell if soil is healthy? Just listen to it.

“Think back to the last concert you went to. Now replace the music that rang through the venue with an erratic series of pops, muffled staccatos, distorted taps, and sudden clicks. No single sound is quite distinguishable from another, all blending together in a medley of unsynchronized noise. Except, instead of musicians, what you’re hearing is a mass of underground invertebrates. And they’re putting on an unorthodox show for the handful of humans who know where, and how, to tune in — a complex symphony of vibrations and pulses that relay the state of the very soils these organisms are moving within.”

Atlas Obscura »

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