This is giving "Soma" level of creepiness 😬 pic.twitter.com/cyD8esi8Wl
— Ryan Browne (@Ryan_Browne_) 17 avril 2024
This is giving "Soma" level of creepiness
CULTURE
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Disturbing Technology Raises Ethical and Safety Concerns
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AI Transforms Elderly Care: Innovation and Long-term Solutions
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Transforming Elderly and Long-term Care: The Pioneering Role of AI https://
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#ArtificialIntelligence #healthcare #elderlypeople #innovation #technology @JonBelsher @JolaBurnett @IanLJones98 @BetaMoroney @PawlowskiMario @Shi4Tech @AkwyZ @antgrasso @enilev @baski_LA -
20% of Americans flirt with chatbots: Curiosity and loneliness drive interaction
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Already 20% of Americans have flirted with chatbots, according to this study [linked] Nearly half of them — 47.2% — did so out of curiosity while 23.9% said they were lonely and seeking interactions. It's only April 2024. The line on this graph only goes in one direction from
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Tech Workers Stand Against Harmful AI Development
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Well, because it's not legal. But beyond that, why say this? Aren't you heartened that some of the most powerful/least accountable corps in the world employ people willing to stand up to management on behalf of those harmed by the technologies they develop and profit from?
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Google Workers Protest Nimbus AI Project Israel Gaza
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Tech Workers’ Historic Stand Against Weapons Development
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This is a historic tech action.
— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) 16 avril 2024
A long proud tradition. From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons. https://t.co/CiBi0SoDxkThis is a historic tech action. A long proud tradition. From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.
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Twitter’s Professional Relevance Decline in Tech Community
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I don’t know about overall use, but when you go to conferences you can see the sad decline of Twitter’s relevance to the professional world. People used to talk about who they learned from & their interactions on this platform, now it is all private chat groups & (yikes) LinkedIn
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Drew Houston discusses AI, remote work, and nostalgia on The Verge
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Thank you @reckless for having me on your show @verge and for the great conversation! We covered it all, from the future of AI and what's after ChatGPT, to distributed work and how Dropbox got rid of all our offices, to our nostalgia for Winamp and manually organizing MP3s! 🥳 The Verge (@verge) Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote work trib.al/eHxSvPL — https://nitter.net/verge/status/1779873814886613364#m
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Madhumita Murgia discusses CODE DEPENDENT human agency and AI
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I’ll be in Cambridge on Saturday, in conversation with @ginasue about my book CODE DEPENDENT and its themes of human agency and power in an age of
AI – come say hi! Details here: https://
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AI as Software Process Not Conscious Entity Anthropomorphism
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I think a lot of the problem is that people see AI as an entity, rather than a software process that runs on text to produce an output. Entities remember what they see, even if they pretend they are keeping secrets. Anthropomorphism can be a problem at times!