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Big Tech Data Centers Are the New Big Hate
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (677+ words) Dwarfing climate change, it seems. At the Spectator (US edition), Robert Bryce puts some numbers to the hostility: I’ve been a reporter for four decades. And over the past 16 years, I have been closely tracking the global backlash against Big…...
Neuroscientists Who Don’t Endorse Materialism Face Career Ruin
23+ hour, 13+ min ago (303+ words) On Monday, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor did a podcast with Pat Flynn for Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence on how materialism is faring in the battle for the mind. Egnor is the first author of The Immortal Mind: (Worthy, June…...
Did you know there is a typeface that prevents AI data theft?
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (401+ words) Chances are, you don’t because bots see things differently from the way we do. That’s the basis for ShieldFont, which was developed to prevent bots from just scraping everybody’s hard work on the internet. Essentially, it is intended for “polluting…...
Tag: Virus research restrictions
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (27+ words) mindmatters.ai World political leaders like Donald Trump should be much more concerned about these developments; they could easily leap out of the lab....
Interview with Robert J. Marks II on the Benefits and Potential Perils of AI
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (213+ words) This interview in the link below first appeared in Humanize. We are in the age of artificial intelligence. But what does that mean for the human future? Some claim that AI is merely a very sophisticated tool that will lead…...
Tag: Donald Trump (and AI-created viruses)
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (29+ words) mindmatters.ai World political leaders like Donald Trump should be much more concerned about these developments; they could easily leap out of the lab....
AI Didn’t Create Artificial Viruses; Humans Did.
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (409+ words) This article is republished from National Review. Media outlets are reporting that Stanford scientists used AI to create an artificial virus. From the Wall Street Journal story: Artificial-intelligence systems have been displaying some eye-opening new abilities in recent weeks: breaking…...
Monday Microsofty: Locked in the Trunk! What to do?
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (854+ words) This week’s Micro Softy concerns two fellows locked in the trunk of a car. In the airtight trunk, both Jimmy and Tony were soon gasping for air. Tony eventually succumbed to asphyxiation and took his last breath. But Jimmy was…...
Monday Micro Softy 90: Mow Power to You
1+ week, 4+ day ago (760+ words) When solving problems, engineers and computer programmers must sometimes think outside the box This week’s Micro Softy examines such a case. In the following problem, someone without any technical background was able to figure out why a lawnmower’s mows-per-gallon rate…...
Your Dog Presses a Button and … Poof! He Can Speak?
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (438+ words) At the McGill Office for Science and Society, science communicator Jonathan Jarry takes after a long overdue target — claims that animals are being taught (or even can be taught) to speak. He asks, “On social media, dogs press buttons that…...