Tag: intelligence

• Bee Smart

  A new study suggests that the average honeybee might be able to use tools in novel ways to solve problems. Anthony and Jeff discuss bee intelligence and how it relates to Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie.

  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/bees-use-tools-to-solve-problems-study-finds

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  September 25, 2026Episodes

• The AI Social Network

  A Reddit-style social network called Moltbook lets AI agents post, comment, upvote, and create subcommunities without human intervention. Anthony and Jeff take a look at this bizarre experiment to suss out why anyone would want this to happen and …

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  March 30, 2026Episodes

• Intelligence and Personality

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  Link to this week’s story: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/study-personality-intelligence-links/

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  August 25, 2023Episodes

• AI Mind Reader

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  Link to this week’s story: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/ai-plus-mri-yields-the-ability-to-recognize-what-the-mind-is-hearing/

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  May 19, 2023Episodes

• Artificial Intelligence or Personhood?

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  June 20, 2022Episodes

• Alchemical Intelligence

  Ali Rahimi, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) at Google, took a swipe at his field last December—and received a 40-second ovation for it. Speaking at an AI conference, Rahimi charged that machine learning algorithms, in which computers learn through …

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  May 16, 2018Episodes

• Doggie Data Care

  What can artificial intelligence learn from dogs? Quite a lot, say researchers from the University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI. They recently trained neural networks to interpret and predict the behavior of canines. Their results, they say, show …

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  April 27, 2018Episodes

• Host in the Shell

  For Hermit crabs, suitable shells are hard to come by. So they have come up with an ingenious scheme. When a crab happens upon a shell, it scopes it out – and when it is too big, the crab sits …

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  September 7, 2016Episodes