By Yusef Paolo Rabiah, UCL The UK government recently announced an £800 million, taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria). The brainchild of the British…
Americans are not afraid of ignorant people saying ignorant things. They are afraid of their own voice being forcibly censored when they try to refute…
By Alexa Hagerty, University of Cambridge and Alexandra Albert, UCL Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial…
By B.N. Frank In case you missed it, last summer Elon Musk announced one of his companies had been putting computer chips in animals’ brains…
By Robert Wheeler In 2017, Microsoft revealed it had patented a “chatbot” that could digitally resurrect the dead if actually built. The chatbot uses AI…
By Edina Harbinja, Aston University; Lilian Edwards, Newcastle University, and Marisa McVey, Aston University It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot…
By B.N. Frank Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is getting a bad rap for replacing human jobs (see 1, 2) and being used for applications that…
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world…
By Janet Phelan A narrative is now emerging about using chemicals to achieve consensus and “cooperation” vis a vis the coronavirus pandemic. The overt and…
By Gaye Levy and George Ure In late January, life, as we know it today, was quite different. We were free to come and go…