Tag: AI
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Music labels oppose AI, but they have to accept it
Major music companies have found a way to accommodate artificial intelligence: make it part of their business. The technology can threaten their catalogs, compete for listeners, and weaken their negotiating position. However, it can also generate licensing fees, subscriptions, and new products built around those same catalogs. That tension explains more than a simple story…
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“Secret” reasons Europe is lagging in AI
There are basically only two competitors in artificial intelligence: the United States and China. Europe is nowhere to be found. This is not a rhetorical flourish. It is a measurable fact. EU member states account for just 5 percent of global AI computing capacity, while the United States controls approximately 75 percent and China roughly…
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From heaven to extinction: AI’s strangely religious future
Artificial intelligence is supposed to represent the future. Yet some of the stories surrounding it sound remarkably ancient. Humanity creates something more powerful than itself. The old world comes to an end. Some people are saved. Others are left behind. Human beings transcend their biological limitations. Death itself may eventually disappear. Replace God with technology,…
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Obama on AI: Demagoguery at its best
I have not encountered such a misleading argument about artificial intelligence from a major political figure in a long time. Barack Obama is right about one thing: AI companies want to make money. Of course they do. They are commercial companies with investors, enormous infrastructure costs and valuations to justify. But reducing the development of…
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AI regulates itself: Without society. And we are just animals
Artificial intelligence may become one of the most consequential technologies humanity has ever created. It may transform employment, education, medicine, warfare, science, politics and ultimately the structure of society itself. Yet humanity was never really asked whether it wanted this transformation. There was no referendum on building increasingly powerful AI. There was no global democratic…
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Conspiracy AI: Pinpoint the evidence for the puppet masters
Let us be precise from the start. There is no secret cabal of one ethnicity, one bloodline, or one club that runs everything. That formulation is a strawman, and it is deliberately kept alive because it is easy to debunk. Once you debunk the cartoon version, the rhetorical move is to declare the entire subject…
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AI will revolutionize psychiatry
Psychiatry may be the branch of medicine that needs artificial intelligence the most. For decades, psychiatry has faced an uncomfortable reality. We have medications that can save lives, suppress psychosis, reduce depression, stabilize mood and control anxiety. Yet our understanding of why severe psychiatric disorders actually develop remains remarkably incomplete. Allen Frances, one of the…
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Bill Gates warns humanity could lose control of AI
Bill Gates has spent most of his life believing that technological progress ultimately improves human existence. Artificial intelligence is making him reconsider how safely that assumption can be applied. The Microsoft co-founder has dramatically intensified his warnings about AI. He argues that the technology is developing faster than governments and societies are preparing for it.…
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Can AI make people atheists?
Artificial intelligence was not invented to turn believers into atheists. Chatbots do not normally begin conversations by telling Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, or anyone else to abandon their religion. Most mainstream AI systems are actually designed to avoid unnecessarily pushing users toward political, philosophical, or religious positions. Yet AI may still have an unexpected effect…
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God didn’t say that. Neither did your pastor. AI did
Imagine scrolling through social media one evening when your pastor appears on the screen. His face looks familiar, his voice sounds right, and he speaks with the confidence you have heard from the pulpit hundreds of times. Then comes the message. You must see the deepfakes (here or here). Perhaps God wants you to send…