How native speakers pronounce “task”

and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

multitasking and started monotasking he focused on one task at a time without distractions none of us not even digital natives can

Slow Thinking

average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to return to your original task moreover when you toggle back and forth between

Slow Thinking

much longer sometimes twice as long than if you had performed each task one at a time monotasking helps you reflect and think

Slow Thinking

"we need you to pay attention." And people immediately unplugged from the driving task, and they started shaving and curling their eyelashes,

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

Every employee, every day, one task automated by OpenClaw. If you miss too many days, you're fired.

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

and asked me if I would cochair a newly-formed Women's Health Task force. What?

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

collaborating and, indeed, co-existing with others. That's why I believe our task isn't merely to improve schools, it's to redesign them for a new purpose.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

The opposite action, lovingly bringing your full attention to the task that matters most, again and again.

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

Shouldn't we just provide pills and procedures and just make sure we focus on the task at hand?" Certainly, rescuing people at the water's edge

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

she's a little less stressed about tomorrow's problems. And this approach can work with any care task that you struggle with.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

because no knowledge of Chinese is required to follow the instructions. Performance on this task does not show that you know Chinese. So what does that tell us about AI?

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

is a little scratch pad. And everything they have to remember in order to do this task has to be written on that little scratch pad.

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

If we could see what was written on that scratch pad, we would be able to tell how different their approach to the task is. So though the input and the output of these two rooms

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

have nothing in common, we won't be able to do this prediction task. It won't be possible to predict one from the other.

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

But could it also be the AI and the brain share something in common? So we’ve done this scratch pad prediction task, and it turns out, 75 percent of the time

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

not just words, but sentences, even stories? Again, this scratch pad prediction task works. We’re able to predict the neural network scratch pad from the brain and vice versa.

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

For example, if I was a participant in the truthful condition, and the task was "tell me about your past holidays,"

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

All of the AI juju circa 2016 wasn't up to the task. It really couldn't even decode the image.

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

there are incremental steps toward the largest and most important task of all revamping the story you tell about yourself

Launch

to figure out how long Factory workers should take for every single task down to the nearest second

Timekeeping

Working with AI requires significant metacognitive reasoning about your task goals, decomposing the task,

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

about your task goals, decomposing the task, the applicability of gen-AI,

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

and allow us to rise to the occasion when an exceptionally complex task comes our way. Studies show that when we don't use our brains,

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

They're customizable micro representations of the text that can emphasize what is most relevant to the task at hand. So in this case, Clara selects the consumer’s lens.

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

But the current systems, you can't say like, hey, go do this task for my job, and it goes off and clicks around the internet

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

but they're very hard to scale. So people have to custom-build them for a particular task. On the other hand, neural networks don't require so much custom engineering,

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

But this is precisely why they must be. If existing democracy is unequal to the task, our job is not to give up on it.

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

This perspective shift taught me that I was thinking too small because I thought the task at hand was to merely alter these systems at play rather than to imagine entirely new ways of being.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

using summertime videos like these ones, and the task was to find things in the woods. All the models learned how to do the task in the summer.

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

and the task was to find things in the woods. All the models learned how to do the task in the summer. Then we tried to use the models on drones in the fall.

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

The traditional AI solution gets confused by the background. Look at the attention map, cannot do the task. Liquid networks do not get confused by the background

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

Liquid networks do not get confused by the background and very successfully execute the task. So this is it.

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

We need physical data because videos do not capture the dynamics of the task. So we collect muscle, pose, even gaze information

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

which leads to substantial improvement, not just time on task performing. For example, research shows that after the first couple of years

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

searching for aliens. What is your first task? To immediately orbit the planet, land, take a quick look around

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

where they assigned some people who were about to go on the subway the task of talking to a stranger while other people were assigned the task

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

the task of talking to a stranger while other people were assigned the task of just doing their usual thing of being on their phones

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

didn't think they were going to like it, but they turned out to be much happier at the end of the task than the people who just rode the subway keeping to themselves.

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