by Jim Warren Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats and, now, Tim Robbins. It’s Robbins as creepy ...
by John M. Crisp Several weeks ago the artificial intelligence company OpenAI released ChatGPT, a language model software that aspires to the Holy Grail of interaction between humans and their computers: the ability to have a “conversation.” Henceforth I’ll stop putting ...
Don’t unplug your computer! Don’t throw away that smartphone! Just because a Google software engineer whose conclusions have been questioned says a computer program is sentient, meaning it can think and has feelings, doesn’t mean an attack of the cyborgs through your devices is ...