This quote by influential psychologist B.F. Skinner aptly captures two human tendencies that are becoming particularly dangerous in the age of generative AI. First, the tendency to ascribe ...

Bob Skinner, a baseball lifer from La Jolla, California, spent 12 years in Major League Baseball as a player and many more as a coach. He was a mainstay in the ...

Joseph Ray of Tennessee worked on a combination of instruments in the 1930s. B.F. Skinner of the University of Minnesota and then Harvard University worked on machines for animal learning. During ...

In 1938, B. F. Skinner proposed that all of behavior reflects reaction to rewards and punishments (reinforcers) provided by the environment. He believed that the voluntary behavior of organisms is ...