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The blind man and the algorithm: Why our sense of wonder makes humans different from AI (opens the original)
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Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, director of UAlbany’s AI Plus Institute, leads efforts to use AI to solve real-world problems. In this episode, he explains the flights of impulse, wonder and exploration that make humans different from AI, whether we hold machines to a higher standard than ourselves, and why he wouldn't go on a podcast recorded solely from the host and guest’s unspoken thoughts (even though it's technically possible).
Chasing losses: How America's gambling surge is impacting college students (opens the original)
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As interim director of UAlbany's Center for Behavioral Health Promotion and Applied Research, Jessica Martin is among a relatively small number of researchers tracking the impacts of widespread gambling legalization — particularly on college students. We spoke to her about who's at risk, what problem gambling looks like in the age of mobile sports betting and prediction markets, and how to convince policymakers to take it seriously as a public health problem.
Terms of engagement: Our sometimes toxic relationship with social media (and who's responsible for fixing it) (opens the original)
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Sarah Domoff, assistant professor of psychology at UAlbany’s College of Arts and Sciences, unpacks problematic social media use — what it looks like, how to recognize it before it spirals and what distinguishes healthy engagement from habits that can take over. Domoff also explains how society can chart a safer path forward in this first of two season-opening episodes exploring how technology can drive problematic behaviors in all of us — but in young people especially.
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