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It's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts. And if you're wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels,

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I put other people in experiments for a living, but this morning I decided to put myself in an experiment and pay close attention to what happened.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Turn a stranger into a momentary acquaintance. The second I had that thought about that experiment, my brain started screaming at me all the reasons

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

and you’ve got nothing to even start with, smarty pants.” Nevertheless, I decided the experiment must continue, so I ignored that part of my brain.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

But when we recruited another sample of people and actually randomly assigned them in an experiment to either keep to themselves in solitude

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Pessimistic beliefs in that way are self-fulfilling. This little experiment was just the tip of a very large iceberg that came into view for us in many ensuing years.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

I want to start off tonight with a two-step experiment. For step one,

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and then make a prediction that we can test with an experiment or other observation. A couple of examples.

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

Therefore, every encounter with medicine is an experiment. You will be a subject

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

You will be a subject in an experiment. And the outcome will be either a better or a worse result for you.

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

and you're most likely good to go, but this is the experiment that we're doing. This is what you're going to watch for.

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

But she was now a scientist, not only a subject in her experiment. And so I encourage you

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

And then in early 2025, I tried an experiment. I wanted to see what these new AI coding agents are all about.

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of the two decades of experiments that I mentioned. And we're going to do this experiment on you right now. I'd like you to focus on my hand, and I'd like you to track it.

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Our study was composed by three main experiments. For the first experiment, we fine-tuned our model, our FLAN-T5, on each single dataset separately.

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

on each single dataset separately. For the second experiment, we fine-tuned our model on two pairs of datasets together,

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

and we used all three possible combinations. For the last final experiment, we fine-tuned the model on a new, larger training test set

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

The results were quite interesting because what we found was that in the first experiment, FLAN-T5 achieved an accuracy range between 70 percent and 80 percent.

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

FLAN-T5 achieved an accuracy range between 70 percent and 80 percent. However, in the second experiment, FLAN-T5 dropped its accuracy to almost 50 percent.

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

FLAN-T5 dropped its accuracy to almost 50 percent. And then, surprisingly, in the third experiment, FLAN-T5 rose back to almost 80 percent.

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

What can we learn from these results? From experiment one and three we learn that language models

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

that previous studies trained on the same datasets. However, from the second experiment, we see that language models struggle

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

but linguistic cues of deception are context-dependent. And from the third experiment, we learned that actually language models

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And it's a lie, a blatant lie. OK, so this was a controlled experiment. What is it going to be in a few years

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the weirder it gets. So a final thought experiment. Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite.

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of Giving Tuesday since it was created in 2012. And it began as an experiment. Could we use social media to create a day of giving,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

from giving to others. In one experiment, my colleagues Kiley Hamlin, Lara Aknin and I brought kids just under the age of two into the lab.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

in those individuals' lives. For example, in one experiment, we gave participants an opportunity to donate a bit of money

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

start some interesting conversations, find gaps in regulation and experiment with community standards for the world around me. This is a Unitree G1 EDU-1.

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So why is this common sense even important? Well, in a famous thought experiment proposed by Nick Bostrom, AI was asked to produce and maximize the paper clips.

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Here's a classic thought experiment that's designed to trick your brain into thinking long-term

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but instead he chose to recreate the famous 1952 primordial soup experiment, the one that showed us how life began on Earth.

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

I mean, this shows, you know, here's the model and you do the experiment. And sure enough, the protein turns out the same way.

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

by doing more hands-on experiments. Why? Well, because an experiment is a procedure to test a hypothesis, demonstrate a fact.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

So let me give you an example. Here's an experiment that I did recently to think about how a touchscreen works.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

Because, even a basic magnet is something that we can experiment with at home. They're both simple and complex at the same time.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

I am a physicist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the largest science experiment ever mounted. It's a 27-kilometer tunnel on the border of France and Switzerland

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

we had been working tirelessly to switch on the LHC at the highest energy that humans have ever used in a collider experiment. Now, higher energy is important

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

in parts of the LHC, but imagine designing a particle physics experiment using such sophisticated algorithms

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

Even talking to strangers has that benefit. So they did an experiment where they assigned some people who were about to go on the subway

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

(Laughter) Ilkka Hanski was an ecologist in Finland, and he did this experiment himself. He just stopped mowing his lawn,

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

But Corden came along and he's like, you know what? I'm going to experiment with 109 different formats, from Carpool Karaoke to Crosswalk the Musical to Riff-Off,

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Many of us do not speak Mandarin. But Cai agreed to do a wild experiment. For this talk,

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Let's go back to self-driving cars. A common thought experiment when it comes to AI is what’s known as the “trolley problem.”

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