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Nuclear war concept. Explosion of nuclear bomb. Creative artwork decoration in dark.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 25, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture

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AI, Atomic bomb, Cancel culture, Christopher Nolan, Covid, Genetic engineering, Movies and TV, Oppenheimer, World War II}

What Oppenheimer Teaches Us About Today’s Cultural Moment

_{Let us hope we have the wisdom to take heed of the messages the movie communicates.} _{Wesley J. Smith

August 25, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

Oppenheimer is the best film Hollywood has produced since The Godfather. The movie brilliantly recounts how the theoretical physicist and genius J. Robert Oppenheimer led the urgent U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II that culminated in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and inducted the world into the Atomic Age. The movie is gripping in the (mostly) true story it tells, with acting tours de force by its stars and supporting players, brilliant writing, and terrific cinematography. But, like all great art, it evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. For me, even though the story takes place between the 1920s and 1950s, the film highlights two cautionary lessons acutely relevant to Read More ›

Manhattan project, development of nuclear weapons, history of science of the 20th century. Art collage with a nuclear explosion

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 20, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Technology

Tagged
Atomic bomb, film, Movies and TV, Oppenheimer, Technology, World War II}

“I Can Perform This Miracle”

_{The new "Oppenheimer" trailer gives a chilling hint of the atom bomb race} _{Peter Biles

May 20, 2023

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Arts & Culture, Technology}

Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar, is breaking ground in the historical film genre with his upcoming film Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt. The film, currently slated for release in July, has a chilling new trailer that gives a larger sense of the movie’s scope, and the profound moral dilemma at the heart of the creation of the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the theoretical physicist largely responsible for the develop of the bomb in World War II. The new trailer emphasizes the United States’ fierce “arms race” with Germany. In the trailer, Oppenheimer says, “We’re in a race against the Nazis. And I know what it means Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 2, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Atomic bomb, Bard, ChatGPT, Consciousness, George Hinton, Google, Microsoft, Technology}

Godfather of AI: I Regret What I’ve Done

_{The AI arms race will blur fact and fiction, says Geoffrey Hinton} _{News

May 2, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Geoffrey Hinton, often regarded as the “godfather of AI,” sat down with The New York Times and shared his concerns over the new arms race in artificial intelligence. Hinton was instrumental in AI research and is considered a pioneer in the field. Hinton revealed his departure from Google, where he worked for over a decade. Since the debut of ChatGPT-3 in November of 2022, Google has been struggling to maintain its longtime search engine dominance, trying to infuse an AI chatbot into its own search feature, alongside competitors like Microsoft. “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” Hinton said. Hinton thinks that the proliferation of artificially contrived images, text, etc., will Read More ›

Futuristic Science Fiction Bedroom Interior with Planet Earth View in Space Station, 3D Rendering

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Author
News
Date
August 8, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
___longform, 1984 (book), Atomic bomb, Captain Kirk (Star Trek), Charles Hall, China, Clipper of the Clouds (book), George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Helicopter, Hugo Gernsback, Igor Sikorsky, Innovation, Inventions, John Brunner, Jules Verne, Leó Szilárd, Maratin Cooper, Mind at the End of its Tether (book), Mobile phone, Ralph 124C 41+ (book), Robert A. Heinlein, Science fiction, Simon Lake, Stand on Zanzibar (book), Stranger in a Strange Land, The World Set Free (book), totalitarianism, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (book), Waterbed}

When Science Fiction Comes to Life…

_{Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it sometimes grows out of it} _{News

August 8, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

A senior editor at Wired told us a while back that science fiction writer H. G. Wells’s 1914 tale, The World Set Free, formed part of the inspiration for the atomic bomb, exploded over Hiroshima in 1945. … in the novel Wells imagines a new kind of bomb, based on a nuclear chain reaction. In this science fiction story Wells imagines that atomic energy would be discovered in 1933 (20 years in his future), and that the bomb would first explode in 1956. Wikipedia notes, “As fate or coincidence would have it, in reality the physicist Leó Szilárd read the book in 1932, conceived of the idea of nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and filed for patents on it in Read More ›

The Atomic Bomb Dome Panorama in Hiroshima and the surounding garden in autumn at sunset on the side of Motoyasu River in Japan, with the Peace Memorial Park

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 6, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Military

Tagged
Atomic bomb, Featured, George Santayana, Hiroshima, Hitler, Nagasaki, Philip Jenkins, The Case for Killer Robots, Vladimir Putin, Xinjiang}

Stark Lessons from the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb

_{Nuclear weapons have not been used to destroy a city since Hiroshima and Nagasaki} _{Robert J. Marks

August 6, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Military}

Seventy-five years ago today an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Einstein’s equation E=mc2 showed that 700 milligrams of mass (m), less than a third of the weight of a US dime, could be converted to enough energy (E) to destroy a Japanese city. The atomic bomb ended WWII. Advanced technology such as the atomic bomb not only wins wars but gives pause to otherwise aggressive adversaries. For this reason, I argue in my book, The Case for Killer Robots,that the United States must continue to develop cutting edge lethal AI for military use. As described in John Hersey’s essay “Hiroshima” in the New Yorker (1946), the effects of the atomic bomb were horrifying for the civilian population. Human beings Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
February 8, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
_longform, Artificial Intelligence, Atomic bomb, Cold War, Featured, Radar, Sonar, Star Wars (military strategy), Underwater autonomous vehicles (UAV’s), World War II}

STEM EDUCATION 3. Killing People and Breaking Things

_{Modern history suggests that military superiority driven by technology can be a key factor in deterring aggression and preventing mass fatalities} _{Robert J. Marks

February 8, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Social Factors}

Today, better AI is the goal of the arms race. Russian President Vladimir Putin has prophesied: “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere [AI] will become the ruler of the world.” Putin’s remarks apply to both economic and military dominance. Read More ›