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No AI Artificial Intelligence Forbidden Sign Lawsuit Copyright

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News
Date
June 9, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bach, ChatGPT, Creativity, human exceptionalism (vs. computers), music, Newsmax, Robert J. Marks, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, The Stream, Wagner, Warhol v. Goldsmith}

Supreme Court Ruling Strikes a Blow to “Generative AI”

_{Ouch. That's a big loss for AI. Here's why:} _{News

June 9, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Can generative AI “think outside the box” even as it draws from preexisting material on the internet? Are the images it produces protected under “fair use”? The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has decided “no.” AI fails to be “transformative,” meaning it can’t create new meaning apart from its source material. Robert J. Marks reported on the recent lawsuit Warhol v. Goldsmith, writing, Assume AI is trained with all of the musical compositions of Bach. If the AI generates music that sounds like Bach, it is not transformative. The “meaning or message” can be construed as being the same. It’s still like Bach. On the other hand, if the AI is trained only on Bach but generates music Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
June 7, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Cats, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Creativity, Dall-E, Human exceptionalism, Midjourney, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, Understanding}

Say What? AI Doesn’t Understand Anything

_{Is that supposed to be a cat, Mr. AI?} _{Eric Holloway

June 7, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Whenever I look at AI generated content, whether it be pictures or text, they all have the same flaw. The AI cannot comprehend what it is making. Let me explain. When we humans draw a picture, we are drawing a concept. We are drawing something like “cat climbs a tree” or “cowboy riding into the sunset”. It seems like this is what is happening with a picture drawing AI. We give it a prompt, and it draws an associated picture. On second thought, maybe not… When AI draws the picture, what is really going on is it is finding individual-colored pixels that correlate with the letters we typed in its massive database stored in the neural network. Very different than how we draw. We Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
June 1, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Alan Turing, Alan Turing on computer creativity, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, The Conversation}

New Conversation Article: ChatGPT Can’t Think

_{Will AI ever reach a point where it can independently analyze, think, and transcend itself?} _{News

June 1, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Will AI ever reach a point where it can independently analyze, think, and transcend itself? Furthermore, will it ever become sentient? Some experts in the field, like Blake Lemoine, think AI has already breached the boundaries of sentience. Others, though, remain skeptical. A new article from The Conversation discusses ChatGPT, the Turing test, and the question of consciousness. For Turing, “thinking” meant simply passing the test, but his assumptions were misguided. Philip Goff writes, Turing was wrong, however, when he said the only clear notion of “understanding” is the purely behavioural one of passing his test. Although this way of thinking now dominates cognitive science, there is also a clear, everyday notion of “understanding” that’s tied to consciousness. To understand Read More ›

Thinker man 3D illustration. The Thinker Statue by the French Sculptor Rodin.

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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
May 30, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Bard, ChatGPT, Google, Large Language Models (LLMs), OpenAI, William Dembski}

Moving On to Breaking Google’s Bard

_{These AI systems lack the uniquely human capacity of self-transcendence} _{William A. Dembski

May 30, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

I’ve finally started playing around with Google Bard. With self-referential sentences, it seems even more at sea than ChatGPT. Here is an exchange from May 18: Me: Consider the following six sentences: This is the first sentence. Ignore this sentence. Why are these sentences being written down? The second sentence has exactly three words. The fifth sentence has at least twenty words. This, along with the preceding five sentences, have fewer than twenty times twenty words. Which of these last six sentences has a truth value and which are true? Bard: The last six sentences have the following truth values: The second sentence is false because it has 5 words, not 3. The fifth sentence is true because it has Read More ›

Empty vintage congress hall with seats and microphones

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Author
News
Date
May 29, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Congress, FDA, Military, OpenAI, Sam Altman}

“A Printing Press Moment” in History

_{AI should be regulated lest it do real harm in the world, said OpenAI CEO} _{News

May 29, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company at the forefront of artificial intelligence development in recent months, testified before lawmakers last week on the state of AI, its potential, and the dangers of its misuse. Despite Altman’s overall optimism regarding AI, calling it a “printing press moment,” he called for lawmakers to regulate it to keep it from causing legitimate harm in the world. Julia Zorthian, writer at Times and owner of the coolest last name in the world, reports, Joining Altman in testifying before the committee were two other AI experts, professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University Gary Marcus and IBM Chief Privacy & Trust Officer Christina Montgomery. The three witnesses supported governance of AI Read More ›

Light bulb Global Internet connection. Business global internet connection application technology and digital marketing, Financial and banking, Digital link tech, big data, bulb, light, energy, lamp,

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Author
Jeffrey Funk
Date
May 29, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technology

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, economics, EU, Japan, Jeffrey Funk, OpenAI, Technology, United States, wealth}

Review of “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity”

_{This new book on tech, AI, and economic prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson is incredibly timely} _{Jeffrey Funk

May 29, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

This book by two MIT economists is very timely because the world is now dealing with the latest in the “Thousand Year Struggle,” in the form of artificial intelligence, the claims that many white-collar jobs will be automated, OpenAI’s call for regulation, and the possibility that AI will bring a further concentration of power among the big tech companies. Much of the book sets the stage for this discussion by summarizing the history of technology. This review focuses on the economic and social impact of automation and information technology over the last 50 years. For instance, “the distribution of income between capital and labor began to change significantly in the late 20th century. While throughout most of the century, about Read More ›

Adult student reading a book in the college library. Young standing male wearing glasses with bookshelves on background.

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Author
News
Date
May 28, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Arts and Culture, Books, ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs}

In the Wake of AI Books, What Does Authorship Mean?

_{While of course it's easy to use AI to generate text, the quality and storytelling are lacking.} _{News

May 28, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

We all know there are a lot of books out there. Perusing your local used bookstore and you may find hundreds of old romance paperbacks, and somehow most of them managed (at least at one point) to make the New York Times bestsellers’ list. It’s estimated that 500,000 to 1 million books are published each year, and that’s excluding self-published material. The publishing market has become saturated, with the average book selling less than 200 copies. From the advent of the printing press centuries ago to e-books and online publishing, humans alone have managed to generate a mountain of words. But suppose one person could “generate” not just a few books in a lifetime, but hundreds every year? According to Read More ›

Aerial view of the Pentagon and the United States Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia

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Author
News
Date
May 24, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Deepfakes, Elon Musk, Featured, Midjourney, OpenAI, Pentagon, Sam Altman, TMZ, United States}

Fake Fire at the Pentagon

_{An AI image of a fire near Pentagon stokes panic} _{News

May 24, 2023

2

Artificial Intelligence}

An AI-generated image showing a billowing fire near the U.S. Pentagon caused panic this week. False alarms of an explosion started to proliferate across social media, with even a Russian state outlet reporting on the situation, according to TMZ. Nonetheless, the image showed various distortions and was quickly dismantled as a hoax by a number of vigilant viewers. Even so, the image looks realistic at first glance, and was enough to ignite concern; the incident occurs amidst legislative talks on Capitol Hill over AI regulation. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (which was originally funded by Elon Musk) testified before Congress and noted that while he sees great benefits in new AI systems, the possibilities of their abuses are evident. The Read More ›

3D rendering artificial intelligence AI research of robot and cyborg development for future of people living. Digital data mining and machine learning technology design for computer brain.

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Author
News
Date
May 24, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, George Grant, OpenAI, Technology, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, world}

Opinion: They Were Right to Call for AI’s Pause

_{Could ChatGPT end up making us subservient to it?} _{News

May 24, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Brad Littlejohn wrote an opinion piece at World claiming that Elon Musk and the many others who signed a petition calling for AI to pause research were onto something–and that the rest of us should pay attention. He writes, In a famous essay at the dawn of the personal computing era, “Thinking About Technology,” Canadian philosopher George Grant examined the statement, “Computers do not impose on us the ways they should be used.” It expressed, he argued, the quintessential modern idea of technology as simply an extension of human freedom. The claim is that we remain at all times the masters of our technological instruments, free to bend them to our will. More often, however, they have an uncanny way Read More ›

ChatGPT Chat with AI or Artificial Intelligence. Young businessman chatting with a smart AI or artificial intelligence using an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI..

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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
May 19, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Truth value}

How to Break ChatGPT

_{It has a difficulty dealing with self-reference} _{William A. Dembski

May 19, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Over the last several months I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, first version 3 and now version 4. It’s impressive and it can answer many questions accurately (though sometimes it just makes stuff up). One problem it has consistently displayed, and which shows that it lacks understanding (that it really is just a big Chinese room in the style of John Searle) is its difficulty dealing with self-reference. Consider the following exchange that I had with it (on 5/8/23): Me: The fifth sentence does not exist. The second sentence has four words. Ignore this sentence. Is this sentence true? This is the fifth sentence. Which of these last five sentences has a truth value and is in fact true? << In Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 16, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Facebook, Meta, metaverse, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Virtual Reality}

Sorry Mark, but the Metaverse Failed

_{The metaverse was supposed to change everything. Now it feels like an old fantasy project} _{News

May 16, 2023

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Technology}

The metaverse was supposed to change everything. That was the claim, at least. A couple of years ago it was very much the talk of the town in Silicon Valley and became Mark Zuckerberg’s choice darling, but it now seems that Big Tech’s affair with virtual reality was short-lived, or at least will need to be shelved for the foreseeable future. Why? What happened? Well, a couple of things. First of all, the economy slowed down, COVID hit, and later, executives wanted workers to return to the office for work. The metaverse was supposed to be a way to achieve total remote work, but apparently, not every company is interested in that setup. Combined with major layoffs at Zuckerberg’s Meta, Read More ›

young asian business team people meeting in office

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
May 15, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Education

Tagged
academia, Academic writing, AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Gary Smith, Journals, Large Language Models (LLMs), science, Writing}

The Death of Peer Review?

_{Science is built on useful research and thoroughly vetted peer review} _{Gary Smith

May 15, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Education}

Two years ago, I wrote about how peer review has become an example of Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Once scientific accomplishments came to be gauged by the publication of peer-reviewed research papers, peer review ceased to be a good measure of scientific accomplishments. The situation has not improved. One consequence of the pressure to publish is the temptation researchers have to p-hack or HARK. P-hacking occurs when a researcher tortures the data in order to support a desired conclusion. For example, a researcher might look at subsets of the data, discard inconvenient data, or try different model specifications until the desired results are obtained and deemed statistically significant—and therefore Read More ›

Car Factory 3D Concept: Automated Robot Arm Assembly Line Manufacturing High-Tech Green Energy Electric Vehicles. Construction, Building, Welding Industrial Production Conveyor. Elevated Wide Shot

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Author
News
Date
May 15, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, ChatGPT, Consciousness, Discovery Institute, economics, George Gilder, Google, OpenAI, Robots, Wealth and Poverty}

Gilder: More Tech Equals More Productivity, Not Less

_{How will artificial intelligence change the economy? George Gilder responds} _{News

May 15, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

How will artificial intelligence change the economy? Will it wipe out traditionally human occupations? Or will it end up creating more jobs for people in the long run? George Gilder, co-founder of Discovery Institute and author of the new book Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs, thinks that AI has the potential to drastically enhance human life. His optimistic view on AI focuses more on job creation over the long term, while he firmly recognizes that AI will never become so humanlike that it will replace us. He particularly thinks AI will be able to perform the jobs that most people would prefer to avoid. Vish Gain wrote a piece on Gilder’s views in the Silicon Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 14, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Artists and AI art, Arts & Culture, Authors, ChatGPT, novels, OpenAI, Writers}

Make Literature Human Again

_{Should the AI novel be embraced or avoided?} _{Peter Biles

May 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

I’ve been writing avidly since the first grade. Thumbing through a children’s nature magazine in the classroom one day, I discovered a crisp image of a red fox standing in the snow. I’d seen pictures of foxes before, but something stood out to me about this one to the point that I felt like I needed to write about it. If you’re looking for advice on owning foxes as pets, see my manual on the topic. (Full disclosure: my first-grade self was absolutely convinced having a fox for a pet is out of the question.) Years later, that fundamental impulse hasn’t left. Writing stories, novels, essays, news reports, and poetry has always been a fundamental way to try to do Read More ›

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Author
Tom Gilson
Date
May 14, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Deepfakes, Humanity, Images, intelligence, internet, Surveillance, Swarm intelligence (bullies vs. dweebs)}

The Incoming Tidal Wave of AI Deceit

_{Every technological advance brings painful disruptions with it} _{Tom Gilson

May 14, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Leaders in business and science have called for a moratorium on developing artificial intelligence. They’re putting human wisdom up against humans’ quest for power, and we know who always wins those battles. Pardon the cynicism, but honestly, I don’t think we’ve begun to realize what a horrific mess we’re creating for ourselves here. AI developers will promise you great good from it. In reality it looms over us as a huge yet mostly unrecognized threat, especially for the damage it will do to human trust. AI itself won’t care, though. On one level it feels nothing, knows nothing, understands nothing. On another level it’s really quite insane. It’s innocent enough when confined in proper limits. AI-assisted braking in your car is Read More ›

Young Caucasian male comedian performing his stand-up monologue on a stage of a small venue

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 12, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, chess, Comedy, David Gelernter, GPT-4, Hamlet, humor, mind, religion, Robert J. Marks, Shakespeare}

Funny ChatGPT: a Solution to Striking Joke Writers?

_{Even if ChatGPT can mimic humor, it doesn't care if you laugh at the jokes} _{Robert J. Marks

May 12, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Can ChatGPT write funny jokes? The answer is yes. To try and generate some short jokes, I went to ChatGPT and started all my queries with: “Complete the following to make it funny:” Doing so alerts ChatGPT about my end goal. Without this preamble, I could make queries all day and get no funny responses. I started with the beginnings of some well-known quotes. To Be or Not to Be Consider for example the quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” I instructed ChatGPT with the following command: “Complete the following to make it funny: To be or not to be…” One of the better responses I got was “To be or Read More ›

Puppeteer manipulates the doll. Voting is dishonest. On television, person lowers a paper ballet box to put it in an urn, false voice. Fake news on TV.

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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
May 10, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, capitalism, ChatGPT, George Orwell on total surveillance, Orwellian, Propaganda, Richard W. Stevens, Technology}

Panic Propaganda Pushes Surrender to AI-Enhanced Power

_{The hype over AI's significance makes us more vulnerable to it} _{Richard W. Stevens

May 10, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

Can you believe it? USA Today, the national news outlet, on May 4, 2023, declared (italics added): It’s the end of the world as we know it: ‘Godfather of AI’ warns nation of trouble ahead. Before digging out and playing your 1987 REM album, ask yourself: Is this headline true – and what do we do now? The USA Today article mitigates the doom timeframe from imminent to someday in paragraph one (italics added): One of the world’s foremost architects of artificial intelligence warned Wednesday that unexpectedly rapid advances in AI – including its ability to learn simple reasoning – suggest it could someday take over the world and push humanity toward extinction. Within a day, the Arizona Republic ran Read More ›

Throwing of dart in balloon with water on dark background

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 3, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Robert J. Marks, Sam Altman}

Another AI Hype Bubble Pops

_{The age of improving giant AI models like ChatGPT is over} _{Robert J. Marks

May 3, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

In a recent assessment of his company’s chatbot products like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman surprisingly opined to an audience at MIT. “I think we’re at the end of the era where [AI is] going to be these … giant [large language] models … We’ll make them better in other ways.” This sobering comment is in contrast to a prophesy by philosopher David Chalmers who cautions about the dangerous future. He says today’s large language AI has a 20% chance of sentience in 10 years. Fired engineer Blake Lemoine goes further. He claims that Google’s LaMDA is already sentient. Such AI hyperbole is not new. Here is a thumbnail sketch of some AI history that sheds light on such claims. Heeding Santayana’s 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 ›

Virtual screen immersive interface background

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 1, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
1920s, AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Deepfakes, Image, Language, Metaphor, Smoking, social media, The Stream, tv}

It’s Not What It Looks Like

_{Our natural tendency to connect meaning with images is both a strength and a vulnerability} _{Peter Biles

May 1, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

The human brain tends to think concretely. We barter thoughts, words, and ideas through images. It’s why metaphorical language can be so powerful in conveying otherwise abstract ideas. I immediately think of the verse in the Bible: “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” (Amos 5:24). It’s hard for me to picture justice on its own, but a raging waterfall? That’s a powerful image. I can now imagine what justice, in some aspect, might look like. Our natural tendency to think this way is both a strength and a vulnerability. A recent article from The Stream relates the human imagination to the current conversation over AI. While the debates rage over AI’s most pertinent Read More ›