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Jonathan Salem Baskin
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1 day ago

The First AI War Has Begun

The first war between AI and human beings is being waged in America. We should take note of its scope and portent. It’s being waged on two fronts, on the West Coast and in the Midwest, where creatives and autoworkers are resisting encroachment on their pay and jobs. The fight…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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3 days ago

Is It Possible To Build Moral AI?

If an AI wants to do something wrong or bad, the assumption is that we can forecast that action and somehow preclude it or, if our good intentions miss it, we can police it. What’s missing is the element of agency and the potential for moral AI. …

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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4 days ago

AI Regulation: The Fix Is In

The leading lights behind AI convened in DC last week to educate lawmakers on how they intend to get rich changing our lives, and that there’s nothing we can do about it. If past public statements are any indication — the hearings were closed-door, which is a genius move when…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Sep 12

AI Will Evolve Into Maggot-Ridden Mind Mold

AI will consume “claptrap” content generated by left-leaning media outlets and spit out more of it, according to Robert Thomson, News Corp CEO and noted generator of right-leaning claptrap. Thomson spoke at an investor conference last week that featured dozens of companies hoping to cash in on AI development or…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Sep 8

AI Makes Education Look Like Shopping

An article in the New York Times late last month declared that some teachers are embracing AI chatbots and want to actively encourage using them their classrooms. They are horribly misguided. If you can’t beat ‘em… School districts in Los Angeles and New York were initially cautious about generative AI…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Sep 5

The Lie About AI And Entry-Level Jobs

The conventional wisdom is that AI will redefine entry-level jobs, improving employee productivity while freeing them to train for more senior roles. No, it will destroy those job opportunities, and use human workers to help it do it. A better trainee. Entry-level jobs have been all but a right of…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Sep 1

Can AI Address The Melody Shortage?

The 12 notes of the standard musical octave means there are a finite number of combinations available for melodies, which means it’s increasingly difficult for musicians to write new songs without inadvertently copying older ones. Such cases of “accidental infringement” are more common than you might think. A musician might…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Aug 29

AI Can Produce Crap, Too!

Publishing expert Jane Friedman reported early this month that someone (or some thing) had written books under her name and published them on Amazon. There’s a rich and incomplete story to tell about her travails trying to get the books delisted from Amazon and Goodreads. It doesn’t bode well for…

AI

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AI

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Aug 23

Biased Analyses Of AI Bias

Researchers have discovered that ChatGPT has a liberal bias when it comes to politics. They revealed less about the AI’s performance and more about how complicated it is to talk about bias. The project was conducted at the UK’s University of East Anglia and asked the AI to answer questions…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Aug 18

Existential AI Risk Is Right Now

Existential AI risk isn’t something that’s far off in the future or limited to some evil robot destroying mankind, contrary to what many of the leading lights in AI innovation have told us. AI is changing your existence right now. It is affecting how you live, work, and see yourself…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Jonathan Salem Baskin

Jonathan Salem Baskin

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I write books about technology and brands, sci-fi stories, and rock musicals.

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