While it is still considered by many to be a radical concept, proponents of a universal basic income (UBI) no longer see it only as a solution to poverty but as the answer to some of the biggest threats faced by modern workers
For four decades, Alaskans have opened their mailboxes to find checks waiting for them, their cut of the black gold beneath their feet. This is Alaska’s Permanent Fund, funded by the state’s oil revenues and paid to every Alaskan each year. We’re now in a different sort of resource rush, with companies peddling bits instead of oil: generative AI.
By: Kit Heren See original post here. The cost-cutting came as the company reported a 12% drop in annual profits on Thursday. A “big chunk”
By: Scott Rosenberg See original post here. The AI boom is built on data, the data comes from the internet, and the internet came from us. Driving
By: ANDREW V. KENNEDY See original post here. For the better part of the last 15 years, I’ve worked in what some might call the
See original post here. The artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI on Tuesday launched the newest version of its language software, GPT-4, an advanced tool for
See original post here. A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence was set to be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight
By: KIKO LLANERA, SANDREA RIZZI, JOSÉ A. ÁLVAREZ See original post here. If you ask the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) system a question about its own leading
By: Henry Williams “Write an article on ‘What is payment gateway?’” I recently typed into a ChatGPT window. ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-powered writing generator, quickly
By: Kalhan Rosenblatt New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that the artificial intelligence-driven chatbot GPT-3 was able to pass the
By: LESLIE D’MONTE Hardly a day goes by without a mention of ChatGPT, the wunderkind artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot from OpenAI that has taken the
By: Serena Smith In a world where AI is rapidly advancing, the question of whether it would be a bad thing if machines took our
By: Daren Fonda Midway through a mission to deliver food at George Mason University in Virginia, the little white robot paused. A throng of students
By: BILLY PERRIGO Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. Behind him, light glints off the rungs of a
By: BENJ EDWARDS On Tuesday, members of the online community ArtStation began widely protesting AI-generated artwork by placing “No AI Art” images in their portfolios.
See original post here. Universal basic income that’s double the average wage? Legislating in favor of human-algorithmic coexistence? These are just some of the policies
By Eric James Beyer Original article: https://interestingengineering.com/ai-mimicking-the-brain-on-its-own In 2019, The MIT Press Reader published a pair of interviews with Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, two of the world’s
Almost half of company bosses in 45 countries are speeding up plans to automate their businesses as workers are forced to stay at home during
Garry Kasparov is perhaps the greatest chess player in history. For almost two decades after becoming world champion in 1985, he dominated the game with
You can now listen to Crisis 2038 for free on SoundCloud! Fall 2038. A crisis is brewing as increasingly intelligent AIs and robots replace more
As artificial intelligence and automation multiply, so do dystopian predictions that millions of employees will become redundant, their tasks performed more reliably and cheaply by
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 The following post is the second in a two-part series on the impact of robots on the workplace and the labor
Andrew Yang has managed to stay in the Texas Hold’em tournament past the first bubble. Unlike other outsiders, he hasn’t been voted off the island
When Canadian researchers Evelyn Forget and Marni Brownell speak at Stanford University next Tuesday, May 21, they’ll be wading into a debate over one of
Robert Schiller is one of the most well-known economists in the world. In the past, he has made bold predictions about the economy. He has
Walmart this morning unveiled a new “store of the future” and test grounds for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a
Tesla has imbued its cars with the hardware necessary to become fully self-driving. Now, it wants to make it so Tesla owners can loan out
