I heard a powerful and unsettling analogy this week from an artificial intelligence (AI) expert. You know how humans don’t think much about ants because they’re so small and insignificant and don’t have any real sway in our lives? The expert says this same, sort of, relationship could eventually crystallize in the relationship between AI […]
When an offensive lineman sets his foot at a certain angle on the turf before a play, defensive linemen take that as a sign it’s a pass play. They noticed this trend watching game film. Eighty-two percent of the time when the foot gets planted at a certain angle, they calculated, it’s a pass. The […]
Something’s going on in the technology world that feels a lot like it did in the late 1990s when everything converged on one massive paradigm shift: the Internet. The new thunderbolt hitting is widespread news, technological progress, and concern about the growing pervasiveness of artificial intelligence in our daily lives and how it’s affecting us […]
