Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Another glance at some futuristic inventions from fiction that have come into real existence, in this case from the cartoon series THE JETSO...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Brain Cell Computers

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Human brain cells are being used in experimental "biological computers": Biological Computer Made of Human Brain Cells A compa...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

AI-Generated Persons

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I've read more than one near-future story about people dealing with bereavement through interaction with computer simulations of the dec...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Decoding Brain Waves

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Can a computer program read thoughts? An experimental project uses AI as a "brain decoder," in combination with brain scans, to ...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Internet Knows All

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This week I acquired a new HP computer to replace my old Dell, which had started unpredictably freezing up at least once per day. Installing...
Thursday, June 08, 2023

Existential Threat?

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As you may have seen in the news lately, dozens of experts in artificial intelligence have supported a manifesto claiming AI could threaten ...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

Creative AI?

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There's been a lot of news in the media lately about AI programs that generate text or images. One of the e-mail lists I subscribe to re...
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Thursday, July 21, 2022

The Future of Elections

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Earlier this week, we voted in the primary election in this state. Thinking about voting reminded me of a story I read many years ago (and d...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

More Futuristic Forecasts

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"Prediction is hard, especially about the future." Over the past week, I've been rereading LIFE AND TIME, a 1978 collection of...
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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Can AI Be a Bad Influence?

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In a computer language-learning experiment in 2016, a chat program designed to mimic the conversational style of teenage girls devolved into...
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Thursday, August 19, 2021

Mind-Reading Technology

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Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco have developed a computer program to translate the brain waves of a 36-year-old ...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Monopolies and Interoperabilty

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Another LOCUS article by Cory Doctorow on monopolies and trust-busting: Tech Monopolies He begins this essay by stating that he doesn...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Woebot

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"Virtual help agents" have been developed to perform many support tasks such as counseling refugees and aiding people to access di...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

More on AI

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column continues his topic from last month, the sharp divide between the artificial intelligence of contemp...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Digisexuals

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In 2018, Akihiko Kondo, a Japanese school administrator, married a hologram of a "cyber celebrity," Hatsune Miku, an animated char...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Robots Writing

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The March 2020 issue of ROMANCE WRITERS REPORT (the magazine of Romance Writers of America) includes an article by Jeannie Lin about artific...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

AI Rights

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Here's an article on the PBS website exploring the issue of what might happen if artificial intelligences were granted the status of leg...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Robot Children, Puppies, and Fish

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The March issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN contains a new article on improving AI by developing robots that learn like children. Unfortunately, ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

AI Learning

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The June issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN included an article on "Making AI More Human," which discussed improving the way artificial ...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Food Production of the Future

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Here's an article about tabletop greenhouses controlled by a computer program: A Byte to Eat Food computers "use up to 90 perce...