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“Brilliant Vision” from a Century Ago Foretells Today’s Internet
In E. M. Forster's dystopia, people interact only through the Machine
Social Media Censorship? Governments Weigh the Options
The United States may be going in the opposite direction from other Western countries
New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Needs No Brain Implant
The thought-controlled device could help people with movement disorders control devices without the costs and risks of surgery
Can AI Combat Misleading Medical Research?
No, because AI doesn’t address the “Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies” that produce the bad data
How Can AI Help Us With What We Care About?
Instead of making us part of things we don’t care about?
Those Puppy Dog Eyes Are No Accident
The babyface dog is, according to a study of animal shelters, more likely to be adopted
Facebook Moderators Are Not Who We Think
Companies offer terrible working conditions partly because they think AI will just take over soon
Winning Tag Lines Are Hard Enough To Write…
But AI really flops at that
AI Can Detect Art Forgery—and That’s Not All
It can also help with problems in art history that are not nearly as simple as forgery
Experiment: Journalists’ Reliance on Twitter “May” Lead to Pack Journalism
The odd thing is that Twitter ‘s importance may actually be on the wane
The Real Future of Self-Driving Cars Is — Better Human Drivers!
Manufacturers are improving safety by incorporating warning systems developed for self-driving cars into conventional models
There Is a Glitch in the Description of DNA as “Software”
In contemporary culture, we are asked to believe - in an impressive break with observed reality - that the code wrote itself
Did Big Social Media Kill Traditional Media?
In some ways, traditional media have co-operated with their own demise
AI Is No Match for Ambiguity
Many simple sentences confuse AI but not humans
Theologian, Battling Depression, Reaffirms the Existence of the Soul
J. P. Moreland reasons his way to the evidence and captures his discoveries in a book
The US 2016 Election: Why Big Data Failed
Economics professor Gary Smith sheds light on the surprise result
AI Delusions: A Statistics Expert Sets Us Straight
We learn why Watson's programmers did not want certain Jeopardy questions asked
We Can Imagine Robots That Think and Feel
But does that make them more likely?
Research: Kids’ Phones Steal Sleep
How important might 21 minutes less sleep a night be to a child?
Jordan Peterson to Found New Free Speech Platform
Thinkspot is being developed as a free speech alternative to Facebook, YouTube, and Patreon
