There’s an awful lot of things that can go wrong in this world. Plagues. Natural Disasters. Nuclear war. Ron DeSantis as president. (Seriously, cant we just put Mickey Mouse instead?) Now we can add AI apocalypse to this long list of potential catastrophes. I recently read an article in vanity … Continue reading →
I was reading an article in USA Today the other day that was discussing Siri’s response to difficult human questions, and how to make the program better. It seems that Apple’s automated voice in a smart phone isn’t too good at responding to statements like “I’m going to kill myself” … Continue reading →
Technology creeps. When sociologists worry about how the digital age is changing us, it’s not so much that terminator robots are going to rise up against us. It’s that technologies are habit forming, and habits – especially the bad kind-are addictive. Like the frog that boils to death in a … Continue reading →
