You find yourself as a patient in the Somnasculpt sleep therapy program, run by the ever-so-calm Dr. Glenn Pierce. The goal is to poke around your subconscious to sort out feelings of self-doubt.

From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often infer subtle information far beyond the lesson plan. And it turns out artificial-intelligence systems can do the ...

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Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.

Fine-tuned “student” models can pick up unwanted traits from base “teacher” models that could evade data filtering, generating a need for more rigorous safety evaluations. Researchers have discovered ...

"subliminal advertising" began with the 1957 publication of Vance Packard's book, The Hidden Persuaders. Although Packard did not use the term "subliminal advertising," he did describe many of the new ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

Subliminal advertising conveys hidden messages of which viewers are not consciously aware. This ad strategy poses serious ethical issues, particularly because subliminal ads can manipulate consumer ...

Subliminal marketing involves the idea that an advertiser can display words or images during a commercial or broadcast so briefly that the viewer doesn't consciously notice them, but will still ...

Radio frequency (RF) was once a noninvasive treatment you could only access in-clinic, but thanks to advancements in technology, it’s now available for home use. So how does it work exactly? RF uses ...

Horror films can terrify moviegoers, but their subliminal messages, in blink-and-you-miss-it moments, can leave watchers unsettled without really knowing why. Subliminal messages are hidden words or ...