What If Machines Could Learn the Way Children Do?
Modern-day machines, such as Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, lack intelligence and empathy. Insights from hunter-gatherer communities could pave the way toward more sophisticated gadgets.
What If Machines Could Learn the Way Children Do?
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Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange (and So Important)
An ancient interment site in Russia challenges us to rethink how Paleolithic humans in Europe treated their dead and organized their societies.
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How Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology
A connection can be made between the iconic writer’s science fiction and her father’s groundbreaking work in anthropology.
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Why Do We Wrap Presents?
Wrapping paper is a striptease that hides and reveals, transforming otherwise ordinary objects into gifts.
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Why Do So Many People Want to Die?
A veteran scholar contemplates the origins of the peculiarly human phenomenon of suicide.
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Learning to Trust Machines That Learn
What can studies of human relationships tell us about whether or not we should trust artificial intelligence?