AI Dangers: Real or Human Hallucination?
The backlash to advances in artificial intelligence have come in all shapes and forms, from mild concern to dramatic over-reactions. Here’s a look at the primary concerns.
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ChatGPT Makes Your Head Spin, But At Least Explains Why
Few tech developments ever have had the sudden impact of the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chat software, released last week. For many, using it had the quality of experiencing a transition into a new era...
What the Moon and the Metaverse Have in Common
Uncharted territory. The lure of the unknown. And just like with the explorers of yore, the course of history will inevitably be altered by greed, motive, and human error.
Crypto’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
A watershed moment for Bitcoin and its brethren.
Charged Up With Nowhere To Go: Why Electric Vehicles Demand Better Infrastructure
For the first time in 20 years the nation’s overall infrastructure got a better report card – going from a D to a C-. The tidal wave of electric vehicles makes the lack luster grades...
Vaccines, Bitcoins, and Catalytic Converters
What we're reading this week: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family strife over his anti-vax activities, India builds its own substitute Twitter that will bend to the government’s will, and why disconnected communities suffer more from...
Why “Othering” AI Keeps Us From Understanding It
AI is not coming to get us. It’s already here and adding real value to our daily lives. Deployed with vision and foresight, robotics and machine-learning has the promise to make us more human in...
Finally, AI for the Masses?
OpenAI's GPT-3 was recently described as “the most powerful 'language model' ever created" and has the potential to be the poor man's road to AI riches.
