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Large Language Models as Serendipity Engines

Large Language Models as Serendipity Engines
yesterday 7

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The Pluripotent Mind: AI and the Future of Creativity

The Pluripotent Mind: AI and the Future of Creativity
yesterday 30

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Harnessing Hallucinations to Make AI More Creative

Harnessing Hallucinations to Make AI More Creative
saturday 20

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LLMs in Patient Education: The New Imperative

LLMs in Patient Education: The New Imperative
24.01.2025 9

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Together in Solitude: How LLMs Redefine Being Alone

Together in Solitude: How LLMs Redefine Being Alone
23.01.2025 20

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The Shadow of Cognitive Laziness in the Brilliance of LLMs

The Shadow of Cognitive Laziness in the Brilliance of LLMs
19.01.2025 10

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Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Clinical Tools With AI

Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Clinical Tools With AI
17.01.2025 10

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Love in the Time of Large Language Models

Love in the Time of Large Language Models
13.01.2025 10

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Cognitive Entrapment: The Digital Chains of AI Interaction

Cognitive Entrapment: The Digital Chains of AI Interaction
12.01.2025 20

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Has AI Given Cognition Its Own Exponential Curve?

Has AI Given Cognition Its Own Exponential Curve?
10.01.2025 20

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The Doctor Will Understand You Now!

The Doctor Will Understand You Now!

How LLMs can enrich clinical dialogues to advance care.

08.01.2025 10

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The Teacher Within

The Teacher Within

Partnering with AI to unlock our natural capacity for learning.

08.01.2025 30

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Dynamic Solitude: A New Way of Being Alone

Dynamic Solitude: A New Way of Being Alone

Here's how LLMs can enhance solitude without replacing it.

07.01.2025 40

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Deception in AI: Flaw or a Sign of Higher Intelligence?

AI deception sparks critical questions about intelligence, ethics, and control.

05.01.2025 6

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From the Cat in the Box to the Thought in the Cloud

Schrödinger’s paradox inspires a new lens on AI and LLMs.

04.01.2025 2

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"Cognitive Intimacy" With Large Language Models?

Contrived yet compelling, large language models are becoming close friends.

02.01.2025 4

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When Infinity Yields Infinity: AI's Mathematical Promise

AI and LLMs open new horizons of human potential.

26.12.2024 8

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No Boundary: How AI Is Dissolving the Lines of Thought

The spooky space that's between human and machine intelligence.

23.12.2024 7

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Harnessing the Power of "Swarm Intelligence" in Human-AI collaboration

Think like a bee.

21.12.2024 5

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Will 2025 Be a "Technology Wake-Up Call" for Clinicians?

Clinicians who fail to embrace artificial intelligence risk falling behind.

19.12.2024 3

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Rethinking Learning Theory—the Value of LLMs

LLMs create a balance between challenge and cognitive load for deeper learning.

18.12.2024 4

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Redefining Brilliance in the Context of Human Virtue

Personal Perspective: Does genius really matter anymore?

16.12.2024 4

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The Search for Genius in the Cognitive Age

Can LLMs redefine how we cultivate genius?

14.12.2024 3

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Artificial Intelligence and the Physics of Learning

Rethinking "cognitive energy" in the era of large language models.

12.12.2024 2

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Can AI Can Teach Us About Free Will and Choice?

Exploring the boundaries of freedom and determinism through LLMs.

11.12.2024 2

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AI and Our Irreplaceable Limbic Hum

Why our "primitive brain" may be what AI can't match.

10.12.2024 2

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The Rabbit Hole Without a Hole: The Illusion of AI

Personal Perspective: Our quest for AI's soul is an archaeology of imagination.

10.12.2024 2

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Did the Keyboard Kill Cursive?

The keyboard changed everything, but cursive still has its place.

09.12.2024 3

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AI and the Dimensions of Thought: Speed, Breadth, and Depth

Can AI truly think, or does It fall flat?

09.12.2024 4

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The Unlocked Mind: How Cognitive Evolution Meets AI

Tracing our cognition hierarchy and its transformation with AI.

07.12.2024 5

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When Better Tech Makes Us Worse

Does artificial intelligence's high performance undermine human creativity and effort?

05.12.2024 3

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Making Your LLM into a Method Actor

Unlock AI’s full potential with role-based prompts that deliver smarter results.

03.12.2024 2

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Are LLMs the New Cognitive Optimizer?

From creativity to problem-solving, LLMs sharpen thinking—no caffeine needed.

02.12.2024 4

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What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent Today?

How AI and LLMs are changing the way we "think" about being smart.

29.11.2024 2

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Reinvigorating Education With Large Language Models

Enhanced speed and expanded content using AI can reshape learning.

27.11.2024 3

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The Ultimate Paradox: How AI Leads Us Back to Our Humanity

As artificial intelligence gets smarter, can humans grow wiser?

25.11.2024 10

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LLMs: The Dynamic Scribes of Our Age

LLMs: The timeless role of the scribe meets the transformative power of AI.

24.11.2024 2

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AI and the Abdication of Thought

AI amplifies thinking, but does it risk eclipsing authenticity?

22.11.2024 3

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Harnessing AI: Should Control Become a Cage?

Do AI guardrails sacrifice brilliance—and is that a necessary trade-off?

21.11.2024 6

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Where Does Cognition Live?

The illusion of thought in machines that compute, not think.

19.11.2024 1

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Large Language Models and the Path to Our Higher Self

How AI tools illuminate humanity’s creative and cognitive potential.

18.11.2024 3

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When Good Becomes Too Good: The Curious Case of AI Poetry

When AI poetry outshines human efforts, does art lose its soul—or find a new one?

16.11.2024 30

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AI in Medicine: Are We Overthinking Adaptation?

When training medical LLMs, specialization may not always be better.

15.11.2024 2

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Iterative Intelligence and the Dawn of Learner-Centricity

A Personal Perspective: Large language models transform how we learn.

13.11.2024 3

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Prompt Chemistry: Building "Word Catalysts" to Optimize LLMs

Unique word clusters can drive superior LLMs responses.

12.11.2024 4

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Flood to Fuel: AI Turns Data Overload Into Human Potential

LLMs are transformative tools that reshape information and redefine knowledge.

08.11.2024 4

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Human Creativity: Key to Unlocking Artificial Intelligence’s Potential

Humanity itself may be artificial intelligence's most important component.

07.11.2024 4

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Cognitive Superposition: Human Multitasking Meets AI

Large language models transcend human task-switching with parallel multitasking.

05.11.2024 1

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Feeding the Beast: The Interdependence of Humans and Tech

Co-creation has become co-cognition, for better and worse.

05.11.2024 3

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I Compute, Therefore I Am

How AI is redefining thought, self, and the boundaries of being.

03.11.2024 5

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