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Tech Talk: Bluetooth
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
Superwoke ChatGPT Busted for Bias
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
The Six Ways Your Car Spies On You
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
Tech Talk: New User Android Phone Annoyances
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
Should We Upgrade to Humanity 2.0?
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
Major Publishers Won’t Let ChatGPT Be Listed as an Author
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
Is ChatGPT Telling The Truth?
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
AI That Does Too Good a Job
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
AI Photos Can’t Be Distinguished
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
We Do Not Live in a Free Society
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
It’s Time to Treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco
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
Tech Talk: Gmail Suggested Contacts
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
Don’t Let Devices Steal Your Precious Time
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
What Facebook Promotes and What It Kills
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,
And the Algorithm Saw the Angel
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