Mary Martin

I believe that in nearly every instance where science fiction has successfully ‘predicted’ a turn of events, it’s more true to say that it has inspired that turn of events.

The community remains puzzled about whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks, or seemingly succeed by memorizing the training data. This paper makes important strides in addressing this question. It constructs a suite of carefully designed counterfactual evaluations, providing fresh insights into the capabilities of... See more

What we do know is that the brain is emerging, in study after study, as one of climate change’s most vulnerable landscapes.

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic

Kind Words is arguably the best game for any person feeling lonely, as it can be enjoyed even by non-gamers. The objective is to write and receive letters from other anonymous players. The contents of these letters tend to be heartfelt stories about people’s lives.

‘I think there are offences that are unforgivable, and that we don’t have a moral obligation to forgive them,

Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors