The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie

We definitely have an attention problem, but it’s not just a function of the digital technology that pings and beeps and ...
Frontiers

Multi-perspective hotel operation process anomaly prediction method based on graph transformer and autoencoder

Due to the complexity of hotel operation processes, abnormal situations are inevitable, making proactive anomaly prediction essential for ensuring operational stability. Although current deep learning ...
IEEE

GraphMind: Context-Aware Multi-Agent Systems With Graph Attention Autoencoder and Large Language Model Integration

In recent years, integrating large language models (LLMs) with multi-agent systems has shown promise in improving the quality and coherence of automated conversations. However, managing the context ...
The Economist

Attention economy: the costs of brainrot

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. How much time gets wasted by people mindlessly scrolling on their phones? Economists are increasingly treating attention as a ...
Newsweek

Can Your Attention Span Really ‘Break’? Experts Weigh In

The idea that attention spans can "break" has been spreading like wildfire across TikTok, podcasts and think pieces—framing focus as something fragile, like glass. But experts say the reality is more ...
The Conversation

Eight seconds and dropping? How to make the most of short attention spans

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Chorowski, J.K., Bahdanau, D. and Serdyuk, D. (2015) Attention-Based Models for Speech Recognition. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2015, Montreal, 7 ...

ABSTRACT: Traffic prediction is the core of intelligent transportation system, and accurate traffic speed prediction is the key to optimize traffic management. Currently, the traffic speed prediction ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ma, J., Zhao, J. and Hou, Y. (2024) Spatial-Temporal Transformer Networks for Traffic Flow Forecasting Using a Pre-Trained Language Model. Sensors, 24, Article No. 5502.

ABSTRACT: Traffic prediction is the core of intelligent transportation system, and accurate traffic speed prediction is the key to optimize traffic management. Currently, the traffic speed prediction ...
The Atlantic

The Birth of the Attention Economy

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Early in the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. announced in The ...
The New York Times

How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us

The economics writer Kyla Scanlon on how attention has come to shape politics, our economy, Gen Z and more. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the ...