Denyse O'Leary
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 point
Hell is a “parasocial” place
Where your "friends" may not even exist
Sometimes the ‘bots turn out to be humans
That “lifelike” effect was easier to come by than some might think
Will AI liberate or enslave developing countries?
Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology
So what happened to Google Glass?
We are told that the “wetware” (humans) got in the way
Do children trust robots too much?
Maybe, but more study is needed, say researchers
Why do we think money is real?
It is actually a constantly shifting network of agreements to trust others
George Gilder: Life after Google will be okay
People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”
Why machines can’t think as we do
As philosopher Michael Polanyi noted, much that we know is hard to codify or automate