I recently finished reading Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. They are experts in the field who say that the AI hype is absurd and we can choose the technology we...
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I don't imagine statewide bans on business approved by the federal government will hold up in the courts, but the issue of AI data centers is politically extremely hot and.
Companies are so all-in for AI that there is a chip shortage and thus the prices for personal computers are skyrocketing. I built a PC for a colleague in January.
If there's one place I DO NOT WANT TO SEE AI, it's ProPublica, that gem of investigative journalism. Alas, they are run by bad people too it turns out. And their reporters are fighting back: After more than two years of stalled contract negotiations, ProPublica...
Destroying global energy and water supplies and driving electricity costs through the roof so that students can cheat on papers and companies can lay off workers does not prove to.
The AFL-CIO articulates some worker-rights based guidelines on AI. It's interesting and worth taking a look at the very least. There is a path where new technology makes work better.
What in the living holy fuck is this? Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy on Monday when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His guest was an avatar...
This is the grave of Claude Shannon. Born in 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, Shannon grew up in the nearby town of Gaylord. This was a solidly middle class family. His.
I am very much on the verge of returning to all in class exams. The New Yorker has a long piece on how ChatGPT has transformed college and none of.
The AI stories are coming fast and furious now. Will AI change how we read? Will historians embrace AI and what does that mean? I don't know, but I do know this much--the use of technology is a choice. And you don't have to choose...
Union members at Politico are angry because their bosses want to AI them out of existence: Politico became one of the first newsrooms last year to win a union contract that included rules.
I am absolutely disgusted by any professor who uses ChatGPT or other AI to do their jobs: In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture.