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Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that provides perceptual experiences that blend the user’s real-world context with computer-generated virtual elements to form a unified scene. AR experiences situate the virtual in relation to the real world and then dynamically track changes in perspective to

Neil McDonnell 7 min
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Large Language Models

A large language model (LLM) is a computational system, typically a deep neural network with a large number of tunable parameters (i.e., weights), that implements a mathematical function called a language model. A language model (LM), in its most general form, is a probability distribution over poss

Melanie Mitchell 15 min
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Organizing

Organizing is a fundamental and pervasive activity. We organize things, we organize people, and we organize information. We also organize information about things, people, and information itself. As the scale of organizing increases, businesses, governments, and institutions systematize models like

Robert J. Glushko 21 min
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Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that provides perceptually rich, multisensory simulations that surround users and respond to naturalistic body movements. VR has been studied by cognitive scientists in three main areas. First, VR has been used as a tool to study basic cognitive processes, for ex

Jeremy N. Bailenson 5 min