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Artificial Intelligence Archive

Archives for June 2022

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Why Silicon Valley is fertile ground for obscure religious beliefsWhy Silicon Valley is fertile ground for obscure religious beliefs
Technology

How do ideas about faith and God influence conversations about artificial intelligence?

By Rebecca Heilweil
Technology
If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemailIf aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail
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Receiving signals from extraterrestrial civilizations could pose an existential risk. Really.

By Bryan Walsh
Technology
Does this AI know it’s alive?Does this AI know it’s alive?
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A Google engineer became convinced a large language model had become sentient and touched off a debate about how we should think about artificial intelligence.

By Dylan Matthews
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The problem with schools turning to surveillance after mass shootingsThe problem with schools turning to surveillance after mass shootings
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Installing advanced security tech doesn’t appear to stop these tragedies, but it can harm students in other ways.

By Rebecca Heilweil
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The text-to-image revolution, explainedThe text-to-image revolution, explained
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How programmers turned the internet into a paintbrush.

By Joss Fong