tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43890300549487550502024-03-14T05:00:54.299+00:00Coaching Your BrainAdelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-87332120869694357872023-12-19T13:29:00.001+00:002024-01-27T11:08:22.101+00:00A Myriad of Tongues: How language may shape our world viewNoam Chomsky theories shaped the understanding related with language acquisition, suggesting the human mind is pre-equipped with a set of linguistic constraints, a "universal grammar" as common structural foundation across languages. Chomsky's theory challenged the belief that language development was solely influenced by environmental factors, arguing that all human languages share Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-38677050140932319892023-11-06T19:20:00.001+00:002024-01-02T19:22:54.959+00:00AI is not the universal problem solverArtificial Intelligence is rife with contradictions; a powerful tool still also very limited in terms of capabilities. And, while it has the potential to improve human existence, at the same time it threatens to deepen social divides and put millions of people out of work. While its inner workings are highly technical, the non-technical among us can and should understand the basic principles of Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-19392321782677373222023-10-20T11:45:00.001+01:002023-11-21T12:09:42.430+00:00Study presents new method for explainable AI; CRP, Concept Relevance PropagationIn their paper "From attribution maps to human-understandable explanations through concept relevance propagation," researchers from Fraunhofer Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) and the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) the concept relevance propagation (CRP), a new method that can explain individual AI decisions as concepts understandable to humans. The Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-11779531140819484272023-09-28T11:45:00.001+01:002023-12-10T19:48:42.166+00:00When Computer Vision Works More Like a Brain, It Sees More Like People DoFrom cameras to self-driving cars, many of today’s technologies depend on artificial intelligence to extract meaning from visual information. Today’s AI technology has artificial neural networks at its core, and most of the time we can trust these AI computer vision systems to see things the way we do — but sometimes they falter. According to MIT and IBM research scientists, one way to Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-16243560524555971842023-08-17T12:23:00.001+01:002023-09-01T12:40:11.367+01:00Japanese groundbreaking vaccine is potentially capable of preventing or modifying the course of Alzheimer’s disease.Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking and behavior. Symptoms eventually grow severe enough to interfere with daily tasks and the disease accounts for 60% to 80% of dementia patients worldwide.In Alzheimer’s disease, two abnormal structures called plaques and tangles are prime suspects in damaging and killing nerve cells. In the first, an accumulation of brain Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-12837579352377242262023-07-12T12:22:00.000+01:002023-09-01T12:22:58.559+01:00Too fast, too soon? Sweden backs away from screens in schoolsSweden recently announced that the country's schools will remove digital technology from classrooms because of poor student performance. Some ask how useful is digital learning. But it also poses the question: is "digital de-escalation" even possible?Sweden’s Minister of Schools, Lotta Edholm, said children’s ability to read has deteriorated and their writing skills have weakened, and there are Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-46307136769319619592023-06-05T20:09:00.001+01:002023-07-12T10:31:48.668+01:00AI has "hacked the operating system of human civilization", says Yuval Noah Harari Pedro Pinto and Yuval Noah Harari delve into the future of artificial intelligence and together, they explore pressing questions in front of a live audience, such as: - What will be the impact of A.I. on democracy and politics? - How can we maintain human connection in the age of A.I.? - What skills will be crucial for the future? - And what does the future of education hold?"Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-75004518114460354792023-05-25T19:38:00.001+01:002023-06-11T19:53:47.220+01:00Here it is: GPT-4 the next generation of AI Large Language Models or High-Tech PlagiarismTuesday 14th of March 2023, 4 months after the first launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI released GPT-4, a more powerful model than ever compared with previous versions. Since 2018, OpenAI had been disseminating GPT language models, but of all huge language models, GPT-4 is not just the newest, but also the most potent.OpenAI GPT-4 was created as the latest milestone and effort in scaling up deep Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-76346503662579787722023-04-27T21:16:00.001+01:002023-07-16T21:20:19.041+01:00A new peptide may hold potential as an Alzheimer’s treatment - while exercise boosts brain health MIT neuroscientists have found a way to reverse neurodegeneration and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease by interfering with an enzyme that is typically overactive in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.At the same time, investigation continues around how exercise releases chemical signals that boost brain health.Beckman researchers studied how chemical signals from contracting muscles promote Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-65983553858266598402023-03-12T20:36:00.000+00:002023-03-12T20:36:39.485+00:00AI modelling that help to re-create what people see by reading brain scansAs neuroscientists struggle to demystify how the human brain converts what our eyes see into mental images, artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting better at mimicking that feat. A recent study, scheduled to be presented at an upcoming computer vision conference, demonstrates that AI can read brain scans and re-create largely realistic versions of images a person has seen. As this Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-51000627989019400492023-02-22T20:29:00.006+00:002023-03-12T20:33:08.440+00:00Dementia only causes about 41% of cognitive decline: new study identifies other predictorsCognitive decline naturally occurs as we age, with a common belief that dementia is the cause in most cases.Recently, researchers at the Ohio State University say there are more factors causing cognitive decline than we once thought.Socioeconomic factors, physical health measures, and behaviors, including exercise and smoking, accounted for 38% of the variation between participants in their levelAdelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-7481301564070388022023-01-24T08:37:00.002+00:002023-03-17T08:38:59.426+00:002022: The year in innovationThe well know year review from McKinsey for 2022, reveals how clients around the world are developing resilience in the face of a seemingly unrelenting set of disruptions. For highest-priority articles and features, here is a roundup of some of most innovative experiences of 2022, including top ten lists, a complete collection of 2022’s innovations.Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-49993123486103164722023-01-09T20:51:00.001+00:002023-03-12T20:58:30.031+00:00Clearly AI is going to win, says Daniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman, 87, Nobel prize in economics in 2002 for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making. His book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, a worldwide bestseller, was key on my master thesis and set out revolutionary ideas about human error and bias and how those traits might be recognized and mitigated. (for those interested, here's Chat GPT summary of the book)A new bookAdelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-18041936217683983182022-12-12T20:39:00.001+00:002023-03-12T20:45:03.424+00:00The Simpson’s Paradox when analyzing data and taking decisionsWhen we want to study relationships in data (eg, in observations of the world), we can plot, cross-tabulate, or model that data. When we do this, we might come across cases where the relationships we see from two different views of a single dataset lead us to opposing conclusions. These are cases of Simpson’s Paradox.Finding these cases can help us understand our data better and discover Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-11249149042346826862022-11-21T20:20:00.001+00:002023-03-12T20:22:16.146+00:00Top 10 Cognitive Computing Trends Cognitive computing is the amalgamation of cognitive science and is established on the basic premise of simulating the generic thought process.Cognitive computing trends are a consistent flow of learning techniques that combines many disruptive technologies like AI and machine learning wrapped with sentiment analysis and contextual awareness to fix day-to-day problems, just like humans. These Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-29296765114274706282022-10-09T13:37:00.001+01:002022-10-09T13:37:35.372+01:00Conneting the dots.Steve Jobs has left an indelible mark in our society. An icon of business and culture, the Apple co-founder was a public figure who remained enigmatic. In his 2005 Stanford speech, he speaks about "faith", about how one should trust that "it will all work out eventually". I have often think about this. About how what I do on a daily basis will amount to something in my Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-58842684593469116982022-09-16T18:21:00.001+01:002022-10-09T18:56:32.576+01:00Learning to accept tough situations in lifeNo one ever promised that life would be fair. In fact, life is often unfair.Thus, after saying so many times this to many to other people, I am writing it down (again!) so to remember what have learned about how to go through tough situations in life. It is never easy or solved by using a single formula. So, here I am once again. Saying it out laud. Repeat. Writing it as many timesAdelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-36529428031288462792022-09-15T16:29:00.001+01:002022-10-11T16:35:29.440+01:00Why having fun is the secret to a healthier lifeIf you're not having fun, you're not fully living, says science journalist Catherine Price, arguing persuasively that our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles have led us to obsess over intangible concepts such as happiness while obscuring the fact that real happiness lies in the everyday experience of fun. We often think of fun as indulgent, even immature and selfish. We claim to Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-15696688942873595192022-08-17T18:12:00.001+01:002022-10-09T18:21:16.767+01:00How do we see?The visual system takes up a very large part of the brain—some say that as much as 30% of prime cortical real estate is specialized for visual processing in humans (Orban et al., 2004). This tells us that vision is important for human survival; language, touch, and audition, for example, get a far smaller slice of the cortical pie. So, what happens to all visual information? All the Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-77781279403287204382022-07-19T17:36:00.001+01:002022-10-09T17:44:36.640+01:00Truth and courage aren't always comfortableBrene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, and a visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin. She has spent decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, author of six #1 best sellers books.She hosts of the weekly Spotify original podcasts Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead hosting conversations with change-catalysts, Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-37952157697423202902022-06-06T16:36:00.001+01:002022-09-26T17:23:33.749+01:00Your brain is unique ... and so are you !I have many times written about neuroscience and coaching.Neuroscience, as the study of the brain and the nervous system and how these systems function physiologically to transform sensory stimuli into output, actions and/or reactions is key to understanding coaching, another transformative process of guiding and enabling change within a coachee for positive outcomes.Coaching the Brain: Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-78139294812345001322022-05-03T11:51:00.005+01:002022-05-03T11:51:37.880+01:00From detection with ML to understanding human behavior and its in-depth complexities.What a fantastic article at Scientific American! Opening question:Do your facial movements broadcast your emotions to other people? If you think the answer is yes, think again. A question that has been under contentious debate, with some experts maintain that people around the world make specific, recognizable faces that express certain emotions, such as smiling in happiness, scowling Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-81852408078334002362022-04-26T11:52:00.001+01:002022-05-03T11:53:54.768+01:00Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes "We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.We all knew and now is confirmed.Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-65479120774318661692022-03-26T16:32:00.000+00:002022-09-26T16:35:03.150+01:00Women in Data Science - on how I am a proud community facilitator Deeply happy and thankful for all the support and energy received from Isabel Pedrosa, Alexandre Gomes da Silva, Liliana Ferreira, Marisa Figueiredo, Sandra Barão, Filipa Dos Santos Rodrigues, Nuno Santos, Guilherme Ramos Pereira, Coimbra Business School | ISCAC and DSPA - Data Science Portuguese Association. Awesome moments, sharing and learning from all to all.Be the change you want to seeAdelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4389030054948755050.post-3818933065544061812022-03-10T11:54:00.001+00:002022-05-03T11:56:46.513+01:00Artificial Intelligence for ChildrenA toolkit designed to help companies develop trustworthy artificial intelligence products for children and youth.Click to download from World Economic Forum Adelaide Leitaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022762949445910652noreply@blogger.com0