Manos Tsakiris Professor of Psychology, director of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings Royal Holloway University of London Even if you think you are good at analysing faces, research shows many people cannot reliably distinguish between photos of real faces and images that have been computer-generated. This is particularly
NB Staff newsbusters.org Big Tech is playing games with speech. Its primary concern is with neutralizing conservative influence online. It does this by preventing users from hearing or seeing a message that the left disagrees with. “Big Tech kept information from users on social media over 275 million times
W. Bradford Wilcox W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, is a senior fellow of the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Riley Peterson Riley Peterson is an undergraduate studying religion and sociology at Baylor University. mercatornet.com Imagine
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
No doubt most of you have spent the past day and night joyously glued to your devices, scrolling through the endless outpourings of joy and celebration at yesterday’s snap resignation. I can’t say I blame you, it’s been a rare happy day to unite New Zealanders the
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,
One of the great regrets of my life is never seeing the Birthday Party live. The Birthday Party, for those unaware, was the second band of Nick Cave’s storied career. It was in fact the same band as Cave’s first group, the Boys Next Door, but with more
The Doctor “You believe it’s the year 1999 when in fact it’s closer to 2199. I can’t tell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don’t know” Morpheus speaking to Neo in The Matrix 1999. Are our expectations being managed? Have you ever noticed
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
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Lynne Parker: Associate Vice Chancellor University of Tennessee Casey Greene: Professor of Biomedical Informatics University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Daniel Acuña: Associate Professor of Computer Science, Affiliate Professor of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder Kentaro Toyama: Professor of Community Information University of Michigan Mark Finlayson: Associate Professor of
Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D Stephan received the BS in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF development
Peter Krapp University of California, Irvine Peter Krapp is professor of Film & Media Studies, Informatics, English and Music at the University of California, Irvine. The US has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the world. Cameras are omnipresent on city streets and in hotels, restaurants, malls
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in
Christian Jordan Howell University of South Florida David Maimon Georgia State University It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting of
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in
