
Denyse O'Leary


Too late to prevent being ruled by The Algorithm?
Dilbert’s creator, Scott Adams, tells Ben Shapiro why he thinks politicians soon won't matter
Should robots run for office?
A tech analyst sees a threat to democracy if they don’t
How AI could run the world
Its killer apps, in physicist Max Tegmark's tale, include a tsunami of "message" films
Could AI write novels?
George Orwell thought so, as long as no thinking was involved
I, Robot, am gathering dust in the sales room …
Why do robotics experts think that customers will warm to robots because they look like people?
Deep Learning won’t solve AI
AlphaGo pioneer: We need “another dozen or half-a-dozen breakthroughs”
Inner peace: Is there software for that?
Tech billionaire funds neuroscience in a search for the secret of contentment
The true cost of “free” social media
It’s free but… are we? George Gilder points a way forward.
Google branches out into politics
Unfortunately, the only political model it would likely know is: One-party stateThe unchallenged manipulation of search engine results during elections is a new phenomenon made possible by the domination of the internet by a few big players.
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Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up
By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthink
Our anonymity may be an illusion
Because we talk about ourselves so much online, few leaked pieces may even be required to identify us.
Karl Marx’s Eerie AI Prediction
He felt that capitalism would fall when machines replaced human labor
Could AI Understand the Universe?
World-renowned chemist thinks it might understand what we can’t, including consciousness
Robogeddon!! Pause.
Wait. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobs
Silicon Valley as a Colonial Power
Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation”
Giant Google’s Vulnerable Spot
Social media are free because we are both the content and the market
Ethics for an Information Society
Because machines can’t learn to solve their own ethical problems
AI Tools for Mass Manipulation?
Machine learning can unleash a perfect storm of malice, experts warn
Do Big Brains Matter to Human Intelligence?
We don’t know. Brain research readily dissolves into confusion at that pointWe also know very little about the human brain. Take this controversy about why the large human brain evolved...
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