@AirCanada m’oblige maintenant à écouter 3 publicité avant le départ, sans possibilité d’éteindre l’écran et l’audio transmis sur les hauts-parleurs de l’avion. Impossible d’éviter le braquage. Je boycotterai à l’avenir.

AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Bot or not: Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system? | Judgment and Decision Making www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #OA

Posture can influence your mood and behaviour, McGill study suggests | McGill University www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

Reward hacking: Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1... @yoshuabengio.bsky.social

How people find information and build knowledge they can trust in the age of instant answers Scribd Understanding Index | Scribd www.scribd.com/report/under...

Do this for 5 to 10 minutes a day to improve your brain at any age, new research shows | Fast Company www.fastcompany.com/91582870/bra... Measuring and increasing the brain health span across adulthood: a public health imperative | Scientific Reports www.nature.com/articles/s41... #openaccess

"average effects on test scores are consistently close to zero" School cellphone bans don't boost scores or attendance, study finds | Axios www.axios.com/2026/08/02/s...

Very good overview of evidence-based learning strategies: Want to Learn Anything Faster? Researchers Say Most People Use the Wrong Learning Techniques (These 12 Actually Work) | Pinch of Health www.pinch-of-health.com/want-to-lear... #pedagogy

Le technicisme réduit l'homme à un télamon de la machine.

Unbelievable! AI slop, it seems. US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The power of metacognition. Generative AI could boost creativity, but only for some workers | Fast Company www.fastcompany.com/91578663/gen... How and for whom using generative AI affects creativity: A field experiment. | Applied Psychology psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... [paywall]

Smarter learning, smarter AI: new method uses multidimensional graphs to personalize online education | www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Children who miss preschool more likely to start school behind, major Curtin study finds | Curtin University www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-r... Early Childhood Education and Care and Developmental Vulnerability at School Entry | JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #freeaccess

Good news on plastics (including a nice video on the history of plastic): Plastic Waste Has Been Turned Directly Into Hydrogen Fuel – No Sorting Required | Science Alert www.sciencealert.com/plastic-wast...

Les bots et le slop saturent les médias sociaux ad nauseam. Le salut passe par les filtres.

"pro-girl" bias. Gender gap in predicted grades raises questions over their use in university admissions | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... Tracing the origins of teacher gender bias | Economics of Education Review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #openaccess

Like other typologies, we're a mixture of many types. Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you? | The Gardian www.theguardian.com/science/2026... What do People think About? | SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #freeaccess

"Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and their decline began well before European colonial expansion" The lost golden age of language diversity | Max Planck Institute www.mpg.de/26871018/the...

Can a robot tutor give too much help? New SCIoI study shows that robot-delivered feedback can support learning after mistakes, but timing matters | Science of Intelligence www.scienceofintelligence.de/can-a-robot-...

Interesting: Waymo’s driverless cars involved in 68% fewer crashes than human drivers, U.S. study finds | CBC www.cbc.ca/news/world/w... Rise of the machines: crash experiences of highly automated vehicles and human drivers | U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety www.iihs.org/research-are...

Are AI chatbots a threat to democracy? New study explores their persuasive power | PsyPost www.psypost.org/are-ai-chatb...

Learning a new skill triggers both temporary cell swelling and lasting structural growth in the human brain | PsyPost www.psypost.org/learning-a-n... Learning engages transient and sustained cellular mechanisms in the human brain | PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #openaccess

The capitalist model has profitability constraints that communism does not. If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time | Fast Company www.fastcompany.com/91577359/why...

On the importance of curiosity and play. Curious robots mimic how children can learn to understand language | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology www.oist.jp/news-center/...

Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences | NPJ Science of Learning pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #freeaccess

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI | The Next Web thenextweb.com/news/dark-tr...

"The state still controls the language in which the information appears. It has far less control over the language in which individuals read it." Opinion: AI will expose the limits of Quebec’s language restrictions | The Montreal Gazette montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-e...

Well done arXiv! No one should know better than scientists. "Authors who submit a paper containing unchecked output from a large language model (LLM) will risk a year’s suspension from arXiv." arXiv’s one-strike rule on AI | CERN Courier cerncourier.com/arxivs-one-s...

Le filtre d'images IA de DuckDuckGo est une véritable passoire. Je loue le début d'action, mais je continue, bec et ongles, à lutter contre l'assaut du slop.

How the Brain Achieves 79% Energy Efficiency | Neuroscience News neurosciencenews.com/information-...