Breaking Rust - Walk My Walk
AI-generated song reaches #1 on Billboard's “Country Digital Song Sales.”
Technology
AI is an existential threat to humanity
"One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI," Elon Musk told attendees at the World Government Summit -- cnbc. Priority request.
ChatGPT's effect on education
Request: I use it to help me break down technical problems. However, does ChatGPT have a negative effect on education and critical thinking in general?
digital ID cards
Request: UK Labour government have announced a plan today to roll out 'compulsory digital ID cards' before the end of this parliament (2029) reasoning it will prevent illegal workers. Seems like a first step towards a China like social credit score to me.
CRISPR gene editing
"genetic engineering technique in molecular biology by which the genomes of living organisms may be modified" -- wikipedia.
sex robots
In 2015, Robot ethicist Kathleen Richardson called for a ban on the creation of anthropomorphic sex robots with concerns about normalizing relationships with machines and reinforcing female dehumanization -- wikipedia.
Elevate app
Train with 40+ games that are designed to boost productivity, earning power, and self-confidence in skills like math, reading, writing, speaking, and recall -- elevateapp.com.
Android (operating system)
"developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, but its most widely used version is primarily developed by Google. First released in 2008, Android is the world's most widely used operating system" -- wikipedia.
iOS
A mobile operating system created and developed by Apple for its iPhone line of smartphones -- wikipedia.
Imperial vs. metric system
Request: Can we settle the debate?
DeepSeek (chatbot)
"Compliance with Chinese government censorship policies and its data collection practices have also raised concerns over privacy… However, it has also been praised for its open weights and infrastructure code, energy efficiency and contributions to open-source artificial intelligence" -- wikipedia.
reverse engineering
Request: a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.
global brain (concept)
"Proponents of the global brain hypothesis claim that the Internet increasingly ties its users together into a single information processing system that functions as part of the collective nervous system of the planet" -- wikipedia.
ChatGPT (AI chatbot)
A sophisticated artificial intelligence system, made by the Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI, that responds to complex queries with the appearance of striking intelligence and accuracy -- bloomberg.
AI 2027 (prediction)
"We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like." Priority request.