Peter Jacobsen mercatornet.com Peter Jacobsen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ottawa University and the Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University, and obtained his BS from Southeast Missouri State University. His research interest
ChatGPT has no mouth and it must scream. One of the most frightening visions of techno-fear is Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. In a future global war, an all-powerful military super-computer exterminates the human race – with the exception of five individuals whom it keeps
David Stupples Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research City University of London The US military has now shot down four high-altitude objects that had entered American and Canadian airspace, raising questions about their purpose and origin. The first of these objects, a Chinese balloon,
Hamza Mudassir Lecturer in Strategy Kamal A Munir Professor of Strategy and Policy Cambridge Judge Business School Google’s parent company Alphabet has lost a hefty US$100 billion (£83 billion) or nearly a tenth of its market value after its new AI chatbot, Bard, botched an answer to a
Worzel profworzel@gmail.com The fourth industrial revolution forges ahead and the medical industrial complex in cahoots with technocrat oligarchs are forwarding their plans for world domination. Dazed and confused people grope fruitlessly for a rock of certainty in a fast flowing river of change. The quest for world domination
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Alan Petersen Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts lens.monash.edu So-called generative AI – algorithms that can be used to create content using machine learning – has been much in the news of late. In particular, the tool ChatGPT, created by Open AI, has attracted considerable attention. In Australia, this has
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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
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
Rachael Medhurst Course Leader and Lecturer in Cyber Security NCSA University of South Wales You can tell a lot about someone from the car they drive. The data that many vehicles now collect can reveal the patterns of our daily lives and provide insights into our behaviour, actions and even
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
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Last year an Oxford expert in transhumanism published “Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century”. Elise Bohan, an Australian, argued that “ape-brained meat sacks” (aka human beings) need to be upgraded with
Danny Kingsley Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science Australian National University Unless you’ve spent your summer on a digital detox, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT: the latest AI chatbot taking the world by storm. Recent discussion about ChatGPT has focused on the risk
Blayne Haggart Associate Professor of Political Science Brock University Of all the reactions elicited by ChatGPT, the chatbot from the American for-profit company OpenAI that produces grammatically correct responses to natural-language queries, few have matched those of educators and academics. Academic publishers have moved to ban ChatGPT from being listed
Brian Lucey Professor of International Finance and Commodities Trinity College Dublin Michael Dowling Professor of Finance Dublin City University Some of the world’s biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce
