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and as the pièce de résistance: a very uncharitable amount of fart spray. (Laughter)

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

in serious-injury-causing crashes over a human, and the same amount of reduction as it relates to injuries with pedestrians.

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

There are remarkable lives. And no amount of pearl clutching or calls to get married

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

because we think love comes with selflessness and in fact desire comes with a certain amount of selfishness in the best sense of the word:

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

a woman I know who I'll call Maya, went through a lot of big changes in a short amount of time. She got married.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

However, keep in mind that just like getting eight hours of sleep at night, the exact amount that's right for you personally might be higher or lower.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

Anyone? How about a moderate amount of stress? Who has experienced a lot of stress?

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Here's an example of a scaling law, where error falls off as a power law with the amount of training data. These scaling laws have captured the imagination of industry

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

So to reduce the error by a little bit, you might need to ten-x your amount of training data. This is unsustainable in the long run.

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

where adding a few more data points could reduce your error, rather than ten-xing the amount of data. So what theory did we use to get this result?

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

where it can predict how much energy is needed, where and when, and it delivers just the right amount of energy at just the right location, for just the right amount of time.

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

and it delivers just the right amount of energy at just the right location, for just the right amount of time. So clearly, we have a lot to learn from physics, neuroscience and evolution

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

this camera would have to start recording 3.8 billion years in the past to record this amount of data. There would not be much motion to watch at first,

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

And that is just what we're expected to add in 2025 alone. Now, this great amount of data and content is what powers the dawn of AI models and overall content 3.0.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

their characters are scripted. The amount of agency this results in is very different. Even more, characters can break the fourth wall

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

Which says, for something to be funny, it has to have just the right amount of wrong. Now I didn’t use any theories to create that cartoon.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

they get the glory of being in the New Yorker magazine, a huge amount of money, house in the Bahamas that Sam Bankman-Fried --

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

making it Kenya's most affordable and nutritious meal. Parents contribute a subsidized amount, and kids just tap to eat.

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

that we would get 4.4 trillion dollars in savings, which happens to be just about the exact amount we need to finance the transition to renewable energy.

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

25 billion dollars. That's the exact amount that would provide universal energy access to all of Africa.

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

but this access to market is likely to be based on methane intensity. That is the total amount of methane emissions as a percentage of production.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

and I'd like to find it. I'm sure that there is an enormous amount of physics in dark energy, dark matter. Think about the revolution in material science.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

I mean, I'm not Mother Teresa, I'm still a selfish bastard a huge amount of the time. But I'm better than I was before this project.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

And three hours a day is, I'm going to say, a fair amount of us are using those numbers. I want you to reclaim the attention that has been robbed of you,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

a gzero world I I think that the United States has an enormous amount of power but the big difference is this is Trump

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Together, that's a huge amount of land. It means that

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

comes to sustainability is reducing the amount of organic waste that we're putting into the environment.

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

of food that is wasted in Europe is equivalent to the amount of food that is produced in Africa every year.

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

And I find it helps double, triple the amount of time that cilantro can last.

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

For the AI platforms to earn people's subscription, where you’re literally paying out an amount per month, I think they're going to conclude

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

So one of the things that faculty do is train the next generation of faculty. And so you have PhD students for a significant amount of time, often could be five to six years.

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

And Andy ... no amount of financial support is going to make him feel compensated for what he gave up,

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

she was too much of a mouthful for the greedy. Just a small amount of her was more than they could stand. Oh, they wanted her bland.

"Wild Women" | Sunni Patterson

and they say, you would not believe the amount that we confess and we confide, and we tell AI sex therapists.

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

and they'll work for less than minimum wage. That is a crazy amount of power. To give an intuition, there was about, you know,

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

Extreme-scale AI models do acquire an ever-more increasing amount of commonsense knowledge, I'll give you that.

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

they may not be the best suited to serve as reliable knowledge models. And these language models do acquire a vast amount of knowledge, but they do so as a byproduct as opposed to direct learning objective.

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

I'm not imagining that the smaller is the better either, by the way. It's likely that there's right amount of scale, but beyond that, the winning recipe might be something else.

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

And what the chart reveals is that there is a tragic amount of death among children, not just infants, but five-year-olds and 10-year-olds

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

between what we call health span and lifespan. The amount of time that we spend that is fundamentally healthy and full capacity.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

on all of these people every few years ever since. The amount of information that's now been collected on these people is just completely mind-boggling.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

Few people have the time or desire to walk such extreme lengths. However, research shows that adding even a modest amount of walking to your daily routine can dramatically improve your health.

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

the beginning of the internet era and computer era, the amount of data that was being produced and also scientific data,

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

and I remember him radioing back the tag was on. OK, a huge amount of suspense: Would it ever come back to the surface, or would it flood with water?

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

and to transform images into robots is important, because we are drastically reducing the amount of time and the resources needed to prototype and test new products,

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

And the humans don't like doing this work, there's a huge amount of turnover. So it's a challenge.

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

In a survey conducted in the US, half of freelancers said there was no amount of money that would convince them to rejoin the traditional workforce.

What is a gig economy?

were quite willing to label their original performances as awful. That may be why people with a moderate amount of experience or expertise often have less confidence in their abilities.

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

and their vehicle-miles traveled per day, the amount that each person drives, actually peaked in 1996,

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

between the subjects that they could figure out was the amount they were moving, and that in fact those who gained weight

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

from factories anymore, it comes from tailpipes, and the amount that people are driving in your city, your urban VMT, is a good prediction

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

In one study, increasing the amount of information available to incident commanders consistently decreased their performance,

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED