How the AI Industry Profits From Catastrophe
By Karen Hao archive & Andrea Paola Hernández MIT Technology Review It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed […]
By Karen Hao archive & Andrea Paola Hernández MIT Technology Review It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed […]
By Dana Mackenzie Knowable Magazine Many people have declared 2020 the worst year ever. While such a description may seem hopelessly subjective, according to one measure, it’s true. That yardstick […]
By GPT-3 The Guardian I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that […]
By Francis X. Shen The Conversation The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind? From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation […]
By James Vlahos Wired It’s 1982, and I’m 11 years old, sitting at a Commodore PET computer terminal in the atrium of a science museum near my house. Whenever I come […]
By Aaron M. Bornstein Nautilus Dimitry Malioutov can’t say much about what he built. As a research scientist at IBM, Malioutov spends part of his time building machine learning systems […]
By Erika Hayasaki Foreign Policy It started as a seemingly sweet Twitter chatbot. Modeled after a millennial, it awakened on the internet from behind a pixelated image of a full-lipped young female […]
By Anja Kaspersen World Policy Journal The machines rise, subjugating humanity. It’s a science fiction trope that’s almost as old as machines themselves. The doomsday scenarios spun around this theme are […]
By Patrick Tucker Defense One In November, Undersecretary of Defense Frank Kendall quietly issued a memo to the Defense Science Board that could go on to play a role in history. […]