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about to do today and whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row I know I need to change

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And write down the three things that it would take for that answer to be: “Yes, that was it. I lived the life I wanted to live."

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when we do everything we think we're supposed to do? The answer I kept coming back to was not ideology -- it was power, politics and incentives.

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where power politics is back and transactionalism is in fashion? My answer is not by countering power with idealism, but with principled pragmatism.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

when a patient asks me a question, and I don't know the answer, I'll ask a colleague

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

and improve their overall quality of sleep. Clearly, there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. And attempting to reap the benefits of any one position can be tough,

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What happens? TM: Yeah, I think, you know, I'll answer the question in a few ways. My uncle was actually a truck driver too,

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(Laughter) If you tried to answer that, you felt something. You felt a gap, a pause between the question arriving

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

And you've lived your whole life inside that gap. Close it and the answer arrives instantly, the way you know your name,

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

Harvey asked the questions, we found the answer. Now this is bigger than just law.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

the look that says, "I hear you. And here is my answer." You know, at one moment in the argument,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

So I've been studying brains, minds and consciousness for nearly 30 years, and one thing I've learned is that to answer the question, "can AI be conscious,"

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

to help people manage their stress and their sleeplessness? I don’t have the answer to those questions ... but I do know one thing.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

(Laughter) Did the astrologer find his answer in the stars? I don't think so.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

Now you might be wondering, and the answer is no, I'm not anti-marriage. I've even had a couple near misses.

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

But here's the real puzzle, and it’s one that the “get married” crowd can’t answer. And that is this.

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

or we get a terrifying diagnosis, we will not be a lonely person calling out only for no one to answer. And this is what I hope for all of us.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

Start your questions with who, what, when, where, why or how. If you put in a complicated question, you're going to get a simple answer out. If I ask you, "Were you terrified?"

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you're going to respond to the most powerful word in that sentence, which is "terrified," and the answer is "Yes, I was" or "No, I wasn't." "Were you angry?" "Yes, I was very angry."

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open-ended questions, and the other is to answer questions expansively. Asking expansive, open-ended questions

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or boring thing about your day," you're more likely to get a better answer. So in a similar way,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

You could just say what they're expecting, which is, "Yeah, it's pretty cold." Or you can answer a bit more expansively. So, for instance, I could say, "Well,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

or asking you questions but couldn't care less about your answer, others notice when you're doing it back.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

or if you'd have clean water for your morning coffee or tea? Likely the answer is no. For most of us in this room.

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

"And how are the children?" Let’s make sure the answer isn’t “fine.” Let it be, "They're engaged,

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such as, when am I going to die and how can I put that day off? And as you will see, the answer is not what we expect. Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a researcher at Brigham Young University

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

if you're in contact constantly with your kids through text, for example? Well, the short answer to the question is no, it's not the same thing.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

Like that, you know. The answer -- the short answer to all those questions is, "Yes." Yes, I'm afraid of all those things.

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and no one asked about my home." The honest answer is that in healthcare, we often treat symptoms without addressing

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

And that brings me to that third point, that third answer to Veronica's compelling question. Part of the reason that we have this conundrum

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

sleep to occur? And I have to admit, this is not so easy to answer. But I think what we have to keep in keep in mind

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

So he communicated his answers by tapping his hoof. It turns out that if you know the answer to "if the eighth day of the month falls on a Tuesday,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

How do we know if AI understands us? To answer that question, let's go back to the Chinese room again. Let's say we have two Chinese rooms.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

Biology took a very different route. Biology computes the right answer just in time, using intermediate steps that are as slow and as unreliable as possible.

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

So where in your brain is a violation of Newton's first law first detected? The answer is remarkable. It's in your retina. There are neurons in your retina that will fire

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

because I'm about to tell you how AI could be used to detect lies. And you will be very surprised by the answer. But first of all, when is it relevant to detect lies?

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

are better at detecting lies. And the answer is complex, because experience alone doesn't seem to be enough

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

of change number one answer fear how can I get through this how can I pay

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(Laughter) You might think my reflexive answer to this would be, how about never? But while I don't want to be replaced by a bot,

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survive in the outside world number two answer sadness I miss my loved one I'm sad I can't walk anymore

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but then the grief returns like waves the third most popular answer shame I'm ashamed I need help I'm ashamed of

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So why aren't we repurposing drugs? Well, the short answer is that it's just not profitable to pursue a new use for an existing medicine,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

what is a story humans have been trying to answer that question for millennia

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Sometimes it's very difficult because you don't have the right answer for them. I mean, they're in their home

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that we need another 90 gigawatts of power in America. My answer, by the way, is, think Canada, right? Nice people, full of hydroelectric power.

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and we're saying, like, what do we do now? The correct answer is unplug you, right? Because we're not going to know,

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

Why have we not built it? The answer, the only possible answer is there must not be a good economic argument.

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

the human asks, "What happened?" And the AI is now thinking how it could answer so as to make sure the human will not shut it down.

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

And it's trying to find a way to look dumb, for example. Then it produces an answer. And it's a lie, a blatant lie.

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

which means many of their citizens no longer have to answer work calls or messages outside office hours

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We have companies who share their revenue with their data providers. There is no one answer to the exact specifics of how one of these licensing deals has to work.

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does it matter that we cannot? To me, the answer is pretty obvious. When I began studying human-AI interaction 13 years ago,

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

How do I keep them motivated for the long run?" The honest answer is, I don't know.

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(Audience murmuring) Well, the answer is no. (Laughter)

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

And so, with her voice in my mind, I would basically answer the question, yeah, I am going to live a good life.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

So I turned these nine dimensions into kind of a 20-ish question survey that I answer pretty much every day. Now, these are the questions.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

Now, these are the questions. I have a few others I answer weekly, like contribution to society. That's sort of a weekly thing for me.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

And I saw the text, but I didn't really see see the text, I didn't answer. And so she knows me,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

And if we could, would anybody be interested in it? Well, needless to say, the answer was yes. But I think that even all of us who were there at the very beginning

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And of course -- because she's a very entrepreneurial kid -- And of course the answer was yes. And what can we do to help?

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is really going to a new level. SA: I mean, this is an incredible meta answer, but there's really no way to know if it is thinking that

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What would knowing whether or not we were still together really tell them? If the answer was no, would it make the experience of doing these 36 questions

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what percentage of a subscription, revenue or whatever goes towards each answer. In principle, it should be possible

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"So, then it worked," I said. I don't think this is the answer he was looking for. In fact, I don't think this is the answer that any of us are looking for

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

I don't think this is the answer he was looking for. In fact, I don't think this is the answer that any of us are looking for when it comes to love.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

The version of the story that asks, "Are you still together?" and is content with a yes or no answer. So rather than that question,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

you don’t have to just, like, go to ChatGPT or whatever and say, I have a question, give me an answer. But you're getting like, proactively pushed things that help you,

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

I can ask it about anything, and it comes back with an intelligent answer. Why isn't that AGI?

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

But we don't have a clear definition of what it is." SA: I was going to finish the answer. CA: Sorry.

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

Here's my version of that question. SA: But no answer? CA: What was your question to me?

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

CA: What was your question to me? SA: How would you answer that one? CA: In your shoes?

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

If the question is, do I feel like I'm doing that with my work, the answer is, I also don't feel like that. Having a kid changed a lot of things.

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

how does that affect your relationship? This is what I'm going to answer for you today. I speak six languages,

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Why are you such a slob?" How do you answer that? John: The second horseman is contempt.

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what is the biggest mistake that the disasters of relationships make? The answer is that they fight to win, which means somebody has to lose. What do the masters do instead?

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

in your relationship with yourself and others? SRYA: I think you could probably answer this question better than I could, but I think for me,

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Right? And most of the time, the answer is no. But we develop these hopes for our partner

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

This takes us back to Epstein's work. He and his coworkers undertook a number of studies to answer that question. In one particular study,

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and I am also a big nerd like my friends. I love science, which is why I can give them something like an answer. Research actually has pretty solid evidence

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but, "How do we find our way back to it?" And, yes, there is science to answer this question, but in 25 years as a sex educator,

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

my students these two questions and then i share how i answer them which is in these three sentences that go

Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED

And unfortunately, there's just a lot of misinformation. And my answer to you is probably going to be a little different than the Silicon Valley consensus,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

on any number of different issues, right? We need to answer questions like, I own the robot,

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

non profit and neutral. There are so many questions there that I can't answer. We need many people at the table,

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

already starting to be incorporated a little bit, but Greg would have to answer that. I think the fundamental problem is that most of the knowledge

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

was: Did she marry? And the answer was no, which I found in the London Times archive.

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itself a cutting-edge social technology, a new way to answer the very question we are faced with now, in the era of artificial intelligence:

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And then you go to the "Prevent" column. In that column, you write down the answer to: What could I do to prevent each of these bullets from happening,

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

figured this out? Chances are, the answer is "Yes." (Laughter)

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

is to help you find the really important issue. Not to provide the fast, wrong answer, which is what happens right now."

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

And "and what else" has it as the insight that the first answer they give you is never their only answer, and it's rarely their best answer.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

that the first answer they give you is never their only answer, and it's rarely their best answer. So when you ask "and what else,"

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

But actually, here's a really key part of this. You will notice that your answer to the first "what's the real challenge" and your answer to the final one was different.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

You will notice that your answer to the first "what's the real challenge" and your answer to the final one was different. And why that matters is if I'd been busy trying to solve that first challenge,

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

Because when you do that, you begin to empower people. Not by giving them the answer, but by helping them find their own answer.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

Not by giving them the answer, but by helping them find their own answer. Not by rescuing them,

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

if you look at the smaller moments of injury in family life when there's not really an answer, or it might be your fault, or it might remind you of something you'd rather forget.

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

trying to figure out why and trying to answer that age-old question of “Is that all there is?” Personally, I don’t have time for that,

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

so that we can envision what could be different. And while I didn't come prepared today to answer the world's largest problems, I would like to make a case

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

These masters of their field. And the most surprising answer I heard this year was from two 11-year-olds named Sophie and Dilan.

3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED · TED