personality

A lot of EVs aren’t that fun to drive, built as they are to glide around a highway like a swan on a river. Sure, like the swan’s manic paddling, there’s a lot of hardware and software sweating in the background to maintain that serenity. But the feeling can be so soporific that you wind up lusting for the day full autonomy comes and puts us out of our misery.Except, of course, if you’re driving a new Lotus.You see, when you’re driving an electric Lotus, there’s a sense of cognitive whiplash you don’t often get these days.…

More than 2,000 years ago Socrates thundered against the invention of writing, fearful of the forgetfulness it would cause. While writing has since redeemed itself, ChatGPT and its brethren in what is collectively known as GenAI now trigger similar warnings of linguistic novelty posing a threat to humanity. Geoffrey Hinton, who is sometimes called the “godfather of AI,” issued a stark warning that GenAI might get out of control and “take over” from humans.The Word Economic Forum’s global risk report for 2024, which…

PHOENIX —  Where’s Charlie?The question from Shohei Ohtani caught Freddie Freeman by surprise.Freeman had introduced his then-5-year-old son to Ohtani at the All-Star Game in Los Angeles in 2022.Now here they were, back at Dodger Stadium 17 months later as part of a contingent of players enlisted to recruit Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Ohtani was asking Freeman about his son by name.Ohtani has continued asking about Charlie in camp.“Every single day, ‘Where’s Charlie?’ ” Freeman said.Freeman will have his son accompany him…

In Palm Beach and Broward counties, the proportions of open and conscientious people are roughly the same, according to a new typological approach that reveals more substantial effects that traditional approaches. Credit: Florida Atlantic University Geographic sorting along ideological lines is on the rise. Counties and regions of the United States differ in political ideology. But do they differ in personality as well?…

An innovative AI algorithm developed by experts in canine behavior aims to accurately assess working dogs’ personalities, facilitating better training and placement outcomes. This collaboration between academia and the canine technology startup Dogvatar uses C-BARQ survey data to predict dog personality types, offering a new approach to dog-human matchmaking. Algorithm generates canine personality thumbprint, much like the popular Myers-Briggs test does for people.A multi-disciplinary research team specializing in canine…

Research from the University of Bath indicates that excessive optimism, particularly among those with lower cognitive skills, often leads to poor financial decisions. In contrast, individuals with higher cognitive abilities exhibit more realistic expectations, challenging the conventional emphasis on positive thinking.Research highlights adverse effects on financial well-being.Optimistic thinking, often celebrated in self-help literature as a pathway to happiness, health, and longer life, can also lead to poor…

Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: January 14, 2024, 15:58 ISTRanbir Kapoor. (File photo)Here's list of top known personalities in India who never miss a chance to flaunt their JLR Range Rover.The luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover has witnessed great sales in FY2023, securing the top position in the Indian auto industry. Most of the credit goes to the hot-selling product Range Rover, which has become a style statement nowadays for a lot of celebrities, making it the first priority in the SUV segment, all thanks to…

Students at a university. Credit: Keira Burton, Pexels, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) In a study of nearly 5,000 North American first-year college students, those who were more extroverted, more agreeable, or less neurotic were more likely to feel a greater sense of belonging at school. Alexandria Stubblebine, an independent researcher in Ocala, Florida, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the…

A comprehensive study reveals that personality traits like conscientiousness and extraversion may reduce dementia risk, while neuroticism increases it. These findings suggest that personality influences dementia management rather than being directly linked to brain tissue damage.Individuals with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion, and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect, according to a new analysis by researchers at the…

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that uses sequences of life events — such as health history, education, job and income — to predict everything from an individual's personality to their lifespan.Built using transformer models, which power large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, the tool called life2vec is trained on a data set pulled from the entire population of Denmark. Life2vec is capable of predicting the future, including the lifespan of individuals, with an accuracy that exceeds…