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
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
