How native speakers pronounce “works”

then there are 35 000 other works of art in the Louvre calling for your attention

Running

but there's a lot of science to back this up, based on the way our spatial memory works. There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus,

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This is the carbon cycle in action. This is how the living planet works. Elements of the universe are moving from one creature to another,

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

Now there are hundreds -- with protection. Protection works. With the Tetiaroa Society,

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

And the outcome will be either a better or a worse result for you. As long as medicine works well, we're fine with fast service,

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

It’s like a computer -- it works great so you never turn it off. You don’t even let it restart for updates,

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of touching a ladybug versus a stinkbug. They just want to understand how everything works and experience as much of life as they can.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

is an intensely active period of restructuring that's crucial for how our memory works. At first glance,

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

Milner's findings, along with work by Eric Kandel in the 90's, have given us our current model of how this consolidation process works. Sensory data is initially transcribed

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

But by the end of his life, doing lots of good works, he was highly respected. Andrew Carnegie even more so.

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and craft careers they love. Let me show you how it works. Past performance is what you've already done that matters.

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

about how to negotiate successfully as a woman. Maybe give you a few examples of how this works, right? So instead of saying,

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

How can we make this work?" That woman no longer works late into the evenings. Now, you might be thinking, "This isn't fair.

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

who loves giving this general, nice feedback, and you have someone who works for you, and a recruiter calls, maybe a past employee,

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

or showing affection towards them. That also works online. They feel like they like one another more.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

It could be the language I speak. It could be the way my body works. It could be my style of dress. It could be any of those elements.

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

that leads to out-of-the-box thinking. Whether it's nature or the exercise itself, it certainly works. And second, and probably the more reflective one,

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

The thing, number one, is to complete the stress response cycle. You can exercise if that works for you. A good night's sleep will do it.

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

you can change your body's response to stress. Now to explain how this works, I want you all to pretend that you are participants

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

(Applause) And community-based design works in places that couldn't be more different. It's how Matthew, a high school senior in rural North Dakota,

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TMD: It's important to me that everyone in this room understands exactly how change-making works in GirlTrek. One well-trained organizer has the power to change the behavior

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and getting a glimpse of what it feels like to be part of something that works, a health care system that stops bouncing you back and forth

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

And this is the fun part. Because you get to customize a life that works for you. When Lula realized that her problems with brushing her teeth

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

this connection between our biological clock and the external world, or our eyes, works when we, for example, travel across time zones. Now how much light do we actually need?

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

that tell him how to respond in Chinese to any Chinese sentence. Here's how the Chinese room works. A piece of paper comes in through a slot in the door,

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

It has a very mysterious surface of both capabilities and fragilities. And we understand almost nothing about how it works. I would like a deeper scientific understanding of intelligence.

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

OK, but let's return to the brain, where explainable AI can help us understand how it works. So now, AI allows us to build

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

As scientists, we'd like to have a conceptual understanding of how the brain works, not just have a model handed to us.

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

and we carve out the essential subcircuit responsible for that firing, and we explain how it works. We were able to do this not only for Newton's first law violations,

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

to build a digital twin of the entire primate visual system and explain how it works. But we can go beyond that

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

and convince someone else that you've really been to Vietnam. And this is how it typically works. And as in all university courses, you might know this,

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

enter a new relationship but we all know that's not how it always works some people start a new relationship

Superpower

and the cancer multiple myeloma. Now repurposing works because, though diseases like leprosy and myeloma may appear very different,

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

investing in nontraditional leaders as a complement to policing works. In 2014 --

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

To put white sheets over the remaining parts of the glacier? Well, God bless them, I hope it works, but these are the kinds of extreme measures

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

the cost of one of them, there's 71 in the works, 31 already existing, 25 billion dollars.

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

A gigawatt is the size of a medium-sized coal-fired power plant. OK, it only runs in the daytime, but it works. So we got really excited.

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

to avoid that from happening. And this is how it works. To gain access to the European oil and gas market,

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

So, Einstein. So when you study the way scientific discovery works, biology, math, so forth and so on,

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

is there must not be a good economic argument. The technology works. Teach them in their language, gamify the learning,

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

it's called stacking this is how it works when a group of people go out for coffee

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to determine if it's real or not, it's useful to understand how generative AI works. Starting with billions of images with a descriptive caption like this,

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

of an untrusted AI agent. And it works because in order to make predictions that an action could be dangerous,

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

But if we reset, and license our training data, we can build a better generative AI ecosystem that works for everyone, both the AI companies themselves and the creators,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

they found that 64 percent of them were trained, in part, on Common Crawl, a dataset that includes copyrighted works, such as newspaper articles from major publications.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that art was their full-time income. But in 2022, a dataset that included their works was used to train a popular AI image model.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

The beauty of licensing is that the two parties can come together and figure out what works for them. And this is happening more and more now.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

a short, simple open letter, which simply reads: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted."

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

we have to start from a position of respect for the value of the works being trained on and the rights of the people who made them.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

So leave it up to your own imagination. You can find whatever works best for you, but you need stop signs in your life.

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Do you still believe in that policy proposal? SA: I have learned more about how the government works. I don't think this is quite the right policy proposal.

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it's so new, it's so amazing, it's a miracle. Of course, you know, magazines are the way the world works. My kid, my kids hopefully, will never be smarter than AI.

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

against your interest is a horrifying thing. It's also true that in a way, you know, everything works from data. You need information to have any kind of useful knowledge.

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

that many people that go places like Stanford have. He doesn't understand how the place works, so he's struggling a little bit. Now when I arrive, I’m really impressed, because he’s so smart, he’s ambitious,

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

SRYA: Yeah, I could see that look. And I think anxiety works both ways, because alternatively, you could be thinking,

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like, these are just people. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But the opinion of people has always mattered a lot to me, I think.

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

And then it happens all at once. That's how that works, I think. So they're all there. waiting.

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

And if you get that raw, you're not going to like the other person. And I don't think that relationship works. I wanted to follow a couple that does this.

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

Lisa decides to go to medical school early in the marriage, and Andy works to support them. And Andy works night shifts in order to do that,

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and Andy works to support them. And Andy works night shifts in order to do that, and he also gives up a great job in another city.

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And the lady said, "Well, my phone works." "Oh, you're you know, you missed your

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

This is not the story we are usually told about how sexual desire works in long-term relationships. But I can think of nothing more romantic,

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

There's this saying, "A biologist will learn how a car works by poking at it, removing one part at a time,

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

and seeing how it affects the rest of the car. On the other hand, an engineer will learn how a car works by taking it completely apart and rebuilding it."

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

a painful, lifelong condition of the blood. And it works by just changing a single gene in a person's DNA to permanently cure the patient.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

in fact, the thing that a lot of people want to do today is create "sovereign AI" which means an AI that works for your country, culture and represents you.

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

(Laughter) But with CRISPR, we have a tool that works like a scalpel. It allows us to target a particular gene in a particular kind of cell.

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

We need to facilitate and regulate a way for them to do that safely that works for the robots and the owners and the other people living in the city who don't have robots,

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

It's interesting that none of the details about how it actually works are published, so we don't actually know exactly what's in GPT-4.

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

We don't know how big it is. We don't know how the RLHF reinforcement learning works, we don't know what other gadgets are in there.

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

♫ I want to thank you, thank you ♫ It works better, right? ♫ I want to thank you, thank you ♫

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

So for language, the normal matter is the visible text, and the dark matter is the unspoken rules about how the world works, including naive physics and folk psychology,

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

including: “Don’t spread the fake news,” “Don’t steal,” “Don’t lie,” which are all part of our common sense understanding about how the world works. However, the AI field for decades has considered common sense

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

but it's really about making sense of the world and learning how the world works. Maybe AI should be taught that way as well.

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

interact with the world and develop this hypothesis. We abstract away the concepts about how the world works, and then that's how we truly learn,

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

It's the business-as-usual horizon. The way our world works today. We rely on this horizon to be stable and consistent.

A Fresh Approach to Resolving Conflicts | Darya Shaikh | TED · TED

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a preacher paying attention to the works of Gandhi across the ocean while reading Tolstoy. But I also think of my own papa, who used his position within education

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

or predict the dynamic relationships among them in these works done by my students and collaborators. And there's more.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

(Applause) CA: So it's amazing to me just how reliably it works. I mean, this shows, you know,

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

And each of these things do a special function in nature. And they're almost like works of art. And it's still astounds me today that AlphaFold can predict,

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

where we're able to solve this problem about half the time. So it works, but I'm saying, we're still not quite there yet.

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

Save Your Wardrobe is an amazing tool that digitizes your wardrobe, kind of works a little bit like a fitness tracker, helps you style outfits together and facilitates care and repair,

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

we have all come to know quite well, and that is RNA. I think these days, everyone has a basic understanding of how RNA works. Again, thanks to the COVID vaccines.

What If a Simple Blood Test Could Detect Cancer? | Hani Goodarzi | TED · TED

So think about it: what would you do? What do you really understand about how your phone works? What are you willing to test or fix?

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

to connect the world and figure out how it works. And that's the connection that we're missing.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

Here's an experiment that I did recently to think about how a touchscreen works. It's just two metal plates,

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

It's testing and doing hands-on critical thinking. And it doesn't really matter whether I'm testing how a touchscreen works or if I'm measuring how conducting different types of materials are,

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

but even simple experiments can connect us better to the world. So now if I tell you that flash memory works by rotating small magnets, then you can imagine it. You've seen it.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

But I think that the challenge is worth it. Think about how something works, then take it apart to test it. Manipulate something and prove some physical principle to yourself.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

I'm going to spend a year, I'm going to totally deconstruct shame, I'm going to understand how vulnerability works, and I'm going to outsmart it.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

And I kind of got a handle on it. I kind of understood, this is what shame is, this is how it works. I wrote a book, I published a theory, but something was not okay --

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

just taking a walk, if that's not your usual routine. The other thing that we know works to help people, particularly who aren't as connected to others as they want to be,

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

in which my aberrances are a victory. Identity politics always works on two fronts: to give pride to people who have a given condition or characteristic,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

is what neuroscientists like me call "predictions." Predictions are basically the way your brain works. It's business as usual for your brain.

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And specifically one person who completely changed my perspective on how creativity actually works. And that one person is none other than the one and only James Corden.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

Or how about Monet, the legendary artist? Most people don’t know that he created over 2,000 works of art in his career. But here's what crushes my soul about Monet.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

Scott didn’t coin the term, but it was probably this use that stuck, and evolved to describe someone who works independently of any single company. That independence seems to make people happy.

What is a gig economy?

He found himself. And I thought, "Anything that works for a 15-year-old boy ought to work for me."

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED