Oct 27, 2021

14 Posts

The Batch: Halloween Special! Monsters of AI Including Tech Giants, Explosive Drones, Surveillance Democracies, Foundation Models
Oct 27, 2021

The Batch: Halloween Special! Monsters of AI Including Tech Giants, Explosive Drones, Surveillance Democracies, Foundation Models

On Halloween, the veil lifts between the spirit and AI worlds, allowing the two to pass through one another. The resulting paranormal — or, as AI practitioners call it, paragaussian — phenomena raise questions...

8 min read
When the AI and Spirit Worlds Collide
Oct 27, 2021

When the AI and Spirit Worlds Collide

On Halloween, the veil lifts between the spirit and AI worlds, allowing the two to pass through one another. The resulting paranormal — or, as AI practitioners call it, paragaussian — phenomena raise questions like these...

1 min read
The Batch: Halloween Special! Monsters of AI Including Tech Giants, Explosive Drones, Surveillance Democracies, Foundation Models
Oct 27, 2021

The Batch: Halloween Special! Monsters of AI Including Tech Giants, Explosive Drones, Surveillance Democracies, Foundation Models

On Halloween, the veil lifts between the spirit and AI worlds, allowing the two to pass through one another. The resulting paranormal — or, as AI practitioners call it, paragaussian — phenomena raise questions...

8 min read
When the AI and Spirit Worlds Collide
Oct 27, 2021

When the AI and Spirit Worlds Collide

On Halloween, the veil lifts between the spirit and AI worlds, allowing the two to pass through one another. The resulting paranormal — or, as AI practitioners call it, paragaussian — phenomena raise questions like these...

1 min read
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Oct 27, 2021

Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

2 min read
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Oct 27, 2021

Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

2 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
Oct 27, 2021

Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

1 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
Oct 27, 2021

Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

1 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
Oct 27, 2021

New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

1 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
Oct 27, 2021

New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

1 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
Oct 27, 2021

Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

1 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
Oct 27, 2021

Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

1 min read
Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
Oct 27, 2021

Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility

Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?

2 min read
Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
Oct 27, 2021

Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility

Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?

2 min read

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