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EU Enshrines Robot Takeover Into Law
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act will only help ensure that the robot takeover is unstoppable. But thank goodness it will be orderly.
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AI Is A Human Rights Story
AI challenges our most basic assumptions about our rights as citizens, not to mention our rights as human beings
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AI Growing Pains, Or The Shape Of Things To Come?
We’ve have been enlisted as subjects in this grand experiment. We aren’t informed about what’s happening, don’t possess the knowledge to understand or assess it, and haven’t an ounce of agency to do something about it.
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Should States Regulate AI?
I’m not optimistic that laws passed by state legislatures will do much if any good. The wording will be difficult, considering the Constitution protects our right to free speech irrespective of its accuracy. Also, one person’s fake is another’s truth. Defining what AI will and won’t be allowed to do sounds like a daunting task.
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Lives Examined By AI
Why spend hours sitting with a group of people debating some arcane aspect of life when GPT-4 can summarize the conversation and provide a conclusion for you?
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Phew, The AI Armageddon Isn’t Certain
OpenAI’s research is just another entry into the corpus of blather intended to make us think that they care about ethics and safety as they (and other tech firms) madly race to develop more powerful and therefore more threatening AI.
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Everything Is An Algorithm
Combine compute power with vast amounts of data and there’s no reason why machines couldn’t do pretty much anything that you do. They just have to learn all the different circumstances in which “this” leads to “that.”
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AGI, Metaverse, And Other Tech Gibberish
The tech industry is doing the same thing it did with the metaverse and social media: its gibberish is announcing its intentions to make tons of money as it pursues cool projects.
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AI & Capitalism’s “Labor Problem”
Workers have been racing against technology to keep their jobs for centuries. AI will be an unbeatable opponent, so the final score will be Capital 1, Labor 0.
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When Will An AI Win A Golden Globe?
What’s for sure is that we don’t have to wonder when an AI will win a Golden Globe. It already has.