Dietram A. Scheufele Dominique Brossard Todd Newman University of Wisconsin-Madison theconversation.com Are democratic societies ready for a future in which AI algorithmically assigns limited supplies of respirators or hospital beds during pandemics? Or one in which AI fuels an arms race between disinformation creation and detection? Or sways
Niven Winchester Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com Despite New Zealand’s record loss to South Africa in August, All Blacks fans can take heart from statistical modelling that has them as favourites to win the 2023 Rugby World Cup (RWC). According to Rugby Vision, a well-tested algorithm I
Mark Sanderson Julian Thomas Kieran Hegarty Lisa M. Given RMIT University theconversation.com Monday marked an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it’s difficult to remember how we ever lived without the search engine. What
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Autumn Johnson Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. newsbusters.org New research from the United Kingdom confirms what many already knew: artificial intelligence has
For at least the third time in its history, TV3 has approached the government for help. Newsroom revealed the extent of WBD’s problems back in July when the company filed its annual accounts. The 2022 before tax loss was $35 million. This followed a $21m loss the previous year.
Back in the dawn of the 80s, a friend returned to school from a trip to America. He regaled us with one story I particularly remember: visiting a house where they played chess on a computer — against another computer user at the other end of the country, via a telephone
Kristen Schiele Kristen Schiele specialises in the areas of digital marketing and social media, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Marketing Educators’ Association. Dr Schiele is co-author of the Mobile Marketing Essentials textbook, and frequently speaks on current and emerging trends in user experience and human-
As I’ve reported before, Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram), for instance, has conducted its own research that found just how damaging its products are to mental health, especially in children and teen girls. Yet, those are the very groups Meta continues to target in its marketing strategies. But,
Anyone who thinks we’ll keep on using fossil fuels forever is a fool. Anyone who says we’re on the cusp of abandoning them forever is either a bigger fool — or a liar. Fossil fuels by their very nature cannot last forever. But they’re not about to run
G/O Media, owner of clickbait sites “news” like Gizmodo, Jezebel and The Root recently came up with a unique response to a strike by its writers: it announced mass layoffs and writers to be replaced by AI Chatbots. To which wags responded: “How will we tell the difference?” It’
Late last year, this little snippet passed almost unnoticed in the NZ media: The government is working with an Israeli-born surveillance firm named among a group of “cyber mercenaries” and kicked off Facebook for spying on people. It is keeping most of the operations with Cobwebs Technologies secret, but
Dominic Lees Associate Professor in Filmmaking University of Reading Film and television actors in the US came out on strike on July 14, causing Hollywood productions to shut down. The action has also had an impact on US films shooting in the UK: director Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 has
James Intriligator Tufts University theconversation.com ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and essays, generate marketing copy and computer code, or simply as a learning or research tool. However, most people don’t understand how it works or what it can do, so
