All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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How Do You Even Begin to Regulate Something Like AI?
Earlier this month, artificial intelligence pioneers and experts urged major AI labs to immediately pause the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. An open letter penned by the Future of Life Institute cautioned that AI systems with “human-competitive intelligence” could become a major threat to humanity. Among the…
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Super Mario Bros. Comes Out, Breaks Box Office Milestones Right Away
Illumination’s Super Mario Bros. movie i now in theatres, and not unlike with the games themselves, is doing really well at the box office.
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Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: the Chess Match That Changed Our Minds About AI
In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down at a chess board in a Manhattan skyscraper. Kasparov, considered the best chess player of all time, wasn’t challenging another grandmaster. He was playing with an AI called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, built by IBM with a specific goal…
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Without a Body, ChatGPT Will Never Understand What It’s Saying
When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it preferred the stone.