Hollywood’s worst-case scenario involving artificial intelligence (AI) is familiar as a blockbuster sci-fi film: Machines acquire humanlike intelligence, achieving sentience, and inevitably turn into evil overlords that attempt to destroy the human race. This narrative capitalizes on our innate fear of technology, a reflection of the profound change that often accompanies new technological developments. However, as Malcolm Murdock, machine-learning engineer and author of the 2019 novel The Quantum Price, puts it, “AI doesn’t have to be sentient to kill us all. There are plenty of other scenarios that will wipe us out before sentient AI becomes a problem.” “We are entering dangerous and uncharted territory with the rise of surveillance and tracking through data, and we have almost no understanding...
By now, even people who differ on nearly all issues seem to agree on at least one thing: American politics has become riven by tribal conflict. Tucker Carlson claims that “schools are creating tribalism in our kids.” Former President Barack Obama has warned that we risk “turning away from democratic principles in favor of tribalism and ‘might makes right.’” As the journalist George Packer, now of The Atlantic, once summarized the problem, “American politics today requires a word as primal as ‘tribe’ to get at the blind allegiances and huge passions of partisan affiliation. Tribes demand loyalty, and in return they confer the security of belonging. They’re badges of identity, not of thought.” The underlying psychology of “us and them”...
If you’ve made a new year’s resolution to be more creative this year, you’re certainly not alone. I know that many people aim to bring more creativity into their lives because it’s really good for your mental wellbeing, as well as your dexterity and sense of achievement. So, I’ve come up with some easy ways that you can be more creative in 2022, along with the reasons why it’s going to boost your happiness too… Last year, I did some research into the ways that creativity can boost your mental wellbeing and discovered that diving into a creative physical task, such as painting, knitting, sewing, drawing etc, can help us to disconnect from our busy digital-led lives and bring about...
Is it true that women who are marriage material make strong men rise up and make weak men crack and dry up? Let’s kick this awesome story-series off with breaking a myth. If your ex is in the picture still, you are with a meerkat, not a lion. No exceptions. You just cut his balls off. But, congratulations on your relationship! That’s so great! Not. Anyways. The VICTOR (the only perfectly developed man — a little spoiler) hates a woman’s exes, because at some point, one of the other three men as you will read in Part 2, were inside her, due to her judgement that they were good men, and that’s cringe and BS, to say the least....
Probably. It’s becoming a thing. Com- piling unnecessary lists that are on- ly interesting to me, and other prof- essional creeps. I’m absolutely conv- inced they are using all the picture- s and tweets we upload to these plat- forms to train AI algorithms. That i- sn’t a paranoid delusion. It is just common sense. Classic kill two birds with one stone approach. Most people, I think, consider such t- hings to be a kind of magic that is i- mpossible to comprehend – like quantu- m phyics – but all you have to do is l- isten to the radio. Watch commercials. Read a newspaper. These people mining the hive mind are ineffectual little s- hits. No creativity whatsoever,...
