How native speakers pronounce “ability”

(Laughter) Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

But the key enabling technology is actually eyesight -- giving drones the same ability that people have to look out and see the world.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

was listen. The ability to really listen to another person is an essential skill for a

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

one thread at a time, nor can they be solved. The ability to think with depth and complexity is greatly enhanced by

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

bit of dopamine available just one swipe away, and that undermines the ability to do difficult or sustained cognitive work

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

who are assigned to teach the pilot lessons to their students, because of our ability to explain complicated things simply and for our very unique experience in solving the science motivation gap

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

when we had sort of a supercruise capability, the Waymo driver was at that ability, we could go from ramp to ramp, no problem.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

my parents weren't stressed about bills or their ability to get the best education for me and my three siblings. It got to the point where my career became the center of our orbit,

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

then by extending rights to these systems, we’d be sacrificing our ability to control, to regulate them and perhaps even to turn them off and for no good reason at all.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

At first glance, our ability to remember things doesn't seem very impressive at all. 19th century psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

After having his hippocampus removed, H.M.'s ability to form new short-term memories was damaged, but he was able to learn physical tasks through repetition.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

Due to the removal of his hippocampus, H.M.'s ability to form long-term memories was also damaged. What this case revealed, among other things,

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

And for a while, I thought it was. Unfortunately, it turns out AI's strength is in its ability to gobble up huge amounts of information,

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

a capacity wired deeply into us via evolution. It's our ability to care, cooperate and communicate that has allowed Homo sapiens to thrive.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

And how we walk across this tightrope handling this paradox of people says a lot about our ability to make and keep friends. Because if we find ourselves stuck in the place

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

those can be internalized as a belief system that then can impede their ability to foster further connections, right? Because they may think "people are going to reject me,"

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

as you get more confident, you start to lose some of the ability to make new friends, but also using that confidence,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Like, that's the implicit message that they have that really inhibits their ability to connect. So the implications of this, I think,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Basically, when I get back in touch with my ability to imagine myself with my partner, when my imagination comes back in the picture,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

which is a mortar to desire. The ability to imagine it, as if it's happening, to experience it as if it's happening,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

in the best sense of the word: the ability to stay connected to one's self in the presence of another. So I want to draw that little image for you,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

work and play affect our ability to engage in healthful behaviors. When the world around us is what we might call

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

From conducting research on how social networks and social support strengthen our ability to achieve and sustain health goals

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

and work them in a new, slightly uncomfortable way so that we can improve our ability to take small risks when we need to. To condition for awkward.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

we miss an opportunity to step into what we independently, individually have the ability to do to be allies. And I know that word may still not sit well with a lot of you.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

injury prevention and recovery, the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, class and ability, as well as the effects of menopause.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

or reach for substances like alcohol, cannabis or Xanax that shrink our ability to think when we deserve to be our sharpest. To bypass suffering, normalize your feelings.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

that patients' lives, the context of where they live and work, matters, and the ability to do something about it in the systems in which we work.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

What's more important is that they all seem to share the same ability to implement a process that transforms their assistance,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and therefore their systems that they work in have the ability, the confidence to address the problems in the living

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

because the engineering of intelligence has vastly outstripped our ability to understand it. I want to take you on a tour of our work in the science of intelligence

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

Popping up a level, neuroscience now gives us the ability to measure not only neural activity, but also energy consumption across, for example, the entire brain of the fly.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

when that happens people turn out to have a remarkable ability to generate their own concrete

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By feeding kids in school, we're not just giving them calories, we're giving them the ability to focus, to grow and to thrive. So today, we harness the power of local governments,

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

We have got to accelerate it. We have the ability to do so. But the single biggest reason we have not been able to move faster

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

both deprioritized innovation, the United States would forever lose its ability to protect our way of life. And with so few willing to solve that problem,

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

One, generative AI. We now have the ability to create images that are almost indistinguishable from reality.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

It's doubling every seven months. What are AIs going to do with that planning ability in the future? Well, bad news.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

And finally, consider metacognition, which is the ability to think about your own thinking process. Working with AI requires significant metacognitive reasoning

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

the applicability of gen-AI, your ability to evaluate the output. These are things which are built into the process

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

Second, perhaps more importantly, we take the position that the ability to think well is essential for human agency and empowerment and flourishing.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily? So I left the classroom,

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck, and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

I actually mean reframing our thinking of our ability to believe in ourselves. Now I know,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

But CEO of an organization called Our Turn. A movement that uplifts the voices and change-making ability of young people to be able to create a thriving education system.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

So here are a couple of sample questions. Number 12: If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?

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you could do in front of a computer. I actually, even without the sort of ability to get better at something it doesn't know yet,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

Because AI that you give access to your systems, your information, your ability to click around on your computer, now, those, you know,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

that are really safe. And I think we are gated on our ability to make progress on our ability to do that.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And I think we are gated on our ability to make progress on our ability to do that. But it's a fundamental part of the product.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And it’ll be a world where, like individual ... ability, impact, whatever, is just so far beyond what a person can do today.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

Our warming climate is already affecting our ability to grow food in more dramatic and

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

to do these deals with the platforms because there's no collective ability to force a proper negotiation.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

like from the 50s to now, as kids independence, ability to roam, problem solve, play on their own has gone down,

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

empower a whole front line, namely friends, to help; and, in the process, improve all of our ability to love better. To do this, it's always important to start by illuminating

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

that while love is an instinct and an emotion, the ability to love better is a skill we can all build and improve on over time.

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

But ultimately, we have to test their ability to cut DNA by actually building them in the lab. And so that's what we did.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

Our drive for growth, our ability to be uncomfortable and sit there in discomfort with someone

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

Because what we know is, with friendship, not only are protecting your vulnerability and your ability to show up, you're protecting the privilege that your friends have

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

But there's some pros and cons in here. I think the most important part is this ability for us to explore, right? It opens up new doors for us

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

I know that I'm incredibly nervous and excited to be up here, which is greatly inhibiting my ability to keep it cool. (Laughter)

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

but spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions,

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

that govern the function of cells. This means that we now have the ability to use CRISPR like a word processor to find, cut and paste text.

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

by editing genes beyond just in individual organisms. We now have the ability to use CRISPR to edit entire populations of tiny microbes,

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

The path that we're taking, not AI. And so the ability for us to choose something else starts by stepping outside the self-fulfilling prophecy

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

but one of them is, for example, the ability to make hypothesis and make experiments, interact with the world and develop this hypothesis.

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

My mom is just amazing. And she also had this ability of talking to her children about real life and making sure that we understood the virtues of going your own way,

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

including math and science, so it's not a question of ability. The difference is in how boys and girls approach a challenge.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

And building a television set and writers’ room gave me the ability to practice equitable hiring within an archaic system in real time.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

because I realized they'd always been primed for imagination and exploration and gave us the ability to explore what can blossom from curiosity. This perspective shift taught me that I was thinking too small

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

A world of many selves. The ability to see is thought to have ushered in Cambrian explosion, a period in which a huge variety of animal species

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

In that primordial ocean, in our ancient times, the ability to see and perceive one's environment kicked off the Cambrian explosion of interactions with other life forms.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

So we are living in an era now where our tools can give us amazing ability to understand the world in ways never before possible.

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

their “actions quotient.” This is their ability to actually get stuff done in the digital and physical world.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

I hope that's happening. So because of this ability, we humans are able to transmit our ideas across vast reaches of space and time.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

So let's just say the accuracy in this room was not very high. This is a big difference in cognitive ability across languages, right? Where one group -- very distinguished group like you guys --

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

distinguishing these two colors. When we test people's ability to perceptually discriminate these colors, what we find is that Russian speakers are faster

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

from an image, from a photo. So the ability to transform text into images and to transform images into robots is important,

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

food preparation, cleaning and so much more. The ability to turn images and text into functional machines, coupled with using liquid networks

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

And this is a persistent problem. So the ability to grasp arbitrary objects is a grand challenge for my field. Now by the way, I was a very klutzy kid.

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

who work in social justice, mental health and abuse and neglect, what we know is that connection, the ability to feel connected, is -- neurobiologically that's how we're wired --

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

Maybe things from early in life or childhood that might actually shape our ability to make these connections later in life? RW: Yes, so, many of our social skills we learn when we're growing up.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

that having a clear understanding of why the relationship ended is really important for our ability to move on. Yet time and again,

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine. But if you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

I sometimes feel like and identify with the puffin bird, maybe because I kind of always have been dreaming about having the ability to fly. So it must be love,

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

and sometimes a bit complicated. We also know that sorrow is deeply connected to our ability to love and to care for other beings.

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

My mom, an intensive care nurse for many years, had a special ability to address tough topics: traumas,

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED