How native speakers pronounce “problem”

and I brought the bird inside to show them, of course, because I have a problem. And one of the people watching this stream made a short video of this moment,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

it opens you up to other points of view other ways of seeing a problem and Conjuring a solution

Slow Thinking

That was when I realized that this sort of benign neglect was a real problem, and it had real consequences, not just for Alex and her love life

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And that's a problem for our ultra-social species, because a lot of our evolved bonding

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

but most of our public discourse on medicine really turns it into an engineering problem. We have the hallways of Congress,

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

(Laughter) The only problem is that when I graduated from medical school, I didn't get one of those little doohickeys

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

as we work to ignite those brain fires of curiosity in the next generation of big problem solvers. (Cheers)

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

They went out, celebrated, fancy dinner, opened a bottle of champagne. The only problem was a few weeks later, she started to notice another nodule in the same area.

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

if every car on the road was a Waymo. But this is the problem: people are really comfortable

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

in order for the technology to be viewed as solving a problem that society currently faces, because we've just accepted it.

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

the Waymo driver was at that ability, we could go from ramp to ramp, no problem. But when we got to surface streets,

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

But what hasn't gotten safer is the human. And so we decided we're patching around the problem. Actually, the way to make sure that this multi-ton vehicle

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

And so to me, that is not -- that is still patching around the problem. Doesn't mean it won't result in safer driving when you are attentive,

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

that are responsible for those higher order thinking processes, including reasoning, problem solving, and good judgment. In other words, the very type of brain activity that’s responsible for reining in

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

So your sleepless brain might be able to regurgitate facts, but you're finding it more difficult to find patterns or problem solve. You stare at the blank page, defeated.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

I thought that was wrong. But the real problem was that the Supreme Court never in its history,

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

It affects a third of us, and for 15 percent of us, it is a chronic problem, so it lasts longer than three months.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

who would kneel down next to them and help them solve a math problem. It was moments with parents.

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

and use it to help women who are having trouble getting pregnant. Obviously, the problem with this was that in order to test this idea, he needed a lot of pee from older women.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Approximately 8% of patients diagnosed with chronic insomnia are actually suffering from a less common genetic problem called delayed sleep phase disorder, or DSPD.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

of whether AI is going to be the biggest boon ever or possibly a serious problem. And, you know, I hope you continue conversations with people here

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

At age 11, I faced the biggest, most devastating problem of my life. The Taliban took control of my town

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

like the obstacles are too big and there's little we can do to fix the problem. But there's a lot I have learned over the past few years,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

(Laughter) As women, we have a negotiation problem. When we negotiate,

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

So I think we have to then think about what is the solution to this problem. Is it the case that we should all just be meaner to each other

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

told me that people who have gone through more setbacks are better at problem-solving, reasoning, logic. They're able to recognize the signs more quickly,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

to create a healthy and supportive environment together. So the problem is, we often think of weight control as an individual challenge.

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

aren't always inviting to those diverse identities. Now what my clients hear is a pipeline problem. But what I hear is an empathy problem.

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

Now what my clients hear is a pipeline problem. But what I hear is an empathy problem. I'll give an example of what that looks like.

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

Most of the candidates tell a story about working in a previous position, having to solve a problem, not having a lot of resources or information,

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

making some educated guesses and ultimately solving said problem amazingly. Alright? Creating a fantastic new product.

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

Everything is focused on this one goal, including your cognition. Your problem-solving is focused just on this one problem, and it will not let go, because your life is at stake.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

That pounding heart is preparing you for action. If you're breathing faster, it's no problem. It's getting more oxygen to your brain.

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

you can tear up, then smile within seconds. The problem isn't feeling, it's ruminating. Taking a two-minute interaction and replaying it for days,

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

Taking a two-minute interaction and replaying it for days, turning stress into a chronic problem. Ruminating was my specialty before I learned to reset.

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

Research shows that people with varied interests tend to be more creative problem solvers and more innovative. Hobbies are one of the best ways to recharge

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

especially if they feel fine. But herein lies the problem. You can feel just fine

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

Where is that place for you where people who are affected by a unique problem can meet a unique solution?

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

We don't ask about where you live and where you work, because if there's a problem there, we don't know what to tell you.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

in the systems in which we work. This is a huge problem right now, because it leads them to this next question, which is,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

First, they sit down and they say, let's identify the clinical problem among a certain set of patients.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

with asthma. After identifying the problem, they then move on to that second step, and they say, let's identify the root cause.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

of upstreamists who are doing remarkable things. The problem is that there's just not nearly enough of them out there. By some estimates, we need one upstreamist

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

that I'm surfacing, if I'm coming to you and I'm saying I think have a problem with my apartment or at my workplace

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

When the person who actually speaks Chinese gets a piece of paper that says something in Chinese in it, they can read it, no problem. But when our imposter gets it again,

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

theory it was a fact but here's the problem it's not a fact it's a myth

Linear

So how do we bridge the gap between AI and humans? We started to tackle this problem by revisiting the famous scaling laws. Here's an example of a scaling law,

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

in energy, compute and data collection. But there's a problem. The exponents of these scaling laws are small.

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

For example, when I teach my son math, I teach him the algorithm required to solve the problem, then he can immediately solve new problems

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

these fundamental limits? We recently solved this problem for the computation of sensing, which is something that every neuron has to do.

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

and many get confused and abandon. But the bigger problem with this way of thinking is that brands are doing most of the talking,

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

This cartoon anticipates by five decades what's now called the alignment problem, when the goals of machines and humans go horribly awry,

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

to try to find a treatment to save my life. There was just one really big problem. I didn't have 15 years and a billion dollars

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

always said problem shared is a problem halved his granny was right

Share

Because of this, many people have already given up. They see the problem as just too big and the progress too slow. But I haven't given up.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

Fast forward into today, the cycle of violence remains an extremely concentrated problem with unequal impacts.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

as well as the other stuff that they do. But this is a problem for the largely coal-fired grid in Pakistan because it's losing its best customers,

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

I had no clue about global climate change, the problem I'm working on in Europe today. But I did know air pollution.

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

and improving energy efficiency. Mexico City's air pollution problem dropped from number one in the world to 999.

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

And that's where I found out about the huge climate problem caused by methane, which also happens to be the main component of natural gas.

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

(English) This is why I’m hopeful, because we're using data not only to understand the methane problem, but to actually fix it.

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

And wanting to chase that feeling of not having to convince myself that I wasn't the problem, or not having to convince myself that something was good,

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

the zenith or what have you, of computation needs. That's problem number one, electricity and hardware. Problem number two is we ran out of data

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

That's problem number one, electricity and hardware. Problem number two is we ran out of data so we have to start generating it.

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

The rules keep changing. We will see if we can solve that problem. If we can solve that, we're going to need even more data centers.

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

So there's a set of such things. The problem with Yoshua's speech, with respect to such a brilliant person, is stopping things in a globally competitive market

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

There are legitimate people saying the only solution to this problem is preemption. Now I just told you that you, Mr. Good,

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

So for the rest of our lives, the key problem is going to get the people who are productive. That is, in their productive period of lives,

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

or build something that actually mattered. I wanted to solve a problem that was being ignored, one that would shape the future of this country and the world.

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

Tech companies that once partnered with the military had decided that national security was someone else's problem. The result?

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

the United States would forever lose its ability to protect our way of life. And with so few willing to solve that problem, I decided that I would try my best.

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

Even purely defensive tools that are fundamentally autonomous. Whether or not you use AI is a very modern problem. It's one that people who haven't usually examined the problem

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

Whether or not you use AI is a very modern problem. It's one that people who haven't usually examined the problem fall into this trap.

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

There's a thousand problems like this. The right way to look at this is problem by problem. Is this ethical?

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

Understand that when you share false or misleading information, intentionally or not, you're all part of the problem. Don't be part of the problem.

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

intentionally or not, you're all part of the problem. Don't be part of the problem. There are serious, smart,

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

HF: No. By the way, this is a secondary problem, which is now people are creating fake things,

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

hours per day which is a problem because too much work takes a toll on

Work

I just think about what's going to happen to jobs, because even if we solve the AI safety problem, it's still going to displace a lot of workers,

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

your toes the problem is that most of us live in cities where Mother Nature is out of

Slow Spaces

Next, I need to write a report. But I'm struck by the blank-page problem. I know, I'll drop in some resources and get an AI draft.

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

Is this the cost of progress? We've solved the problem of having to think. Unfortunately, thinking wasn't actually a problem.

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

We've solved the problem of having to think. Unfortunately, thinking wasn't actually a problem. (Laughter)

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

Goals pull you. The problem? My friend identified a project she wished she had already completed,

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

But it will decline in the middle. We call it the middle problem. My friend might start her project with much enthusiasm,

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

(Laughter) Another problem with middles is that you're going to experience setbacks,

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

compared to those in the control group. OK, but here's the problem. You don't only have one goal.

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

CA: Tristan Harris gave a very powerful talk here this week in which he said that the key problem, in his view, was that you and your peers in these other models

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

CA: But to the extent that this is a collective, a problem of collective belief, the solution to those kinds of problems is to bring people together

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

grow, process, package, transport all we eat and throw away is a problem for the climate.

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

(Laughter) But that's the problem here. Humor, or the lack thereof, can create distance between partners.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

So, how do we solve that problem? The people are

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

Someone who understands the full scope of this problem is Jasmine Crowe Houston.

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

scarcity. It's a logistics problem. And

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

will not make a real dent in this problem. These strategies are not

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

by expressing their feelings calmly and then jumping immediately into problem solving. So think of your most patient kindergarten teacher.

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

Alright. The first one was criticism. And criticism means blaming a problem on a personality flaw of your partner.

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

we can’t listen very well and we certainly can't creatively problem-solve. Julie: If you get flooded, here's what's crucial.

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

John: Right. So when we think about fighting right, whether talking about a perpetual problem or a solvable problem, what is the biggest mistake that the disasters of relationships make?

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