Tag: Artificial intelligence

Escape AI-generated slop and social media outrage; see the real world. Know the benefits of nature, humility, and kindness for you and others

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In a world increasingly filled with AI-generated slop of all kinds and a social media landscape dominated by an outrage machine that is engineered to addict people and steal their attention and privacy, it is important to know there is an alternative. And that alternative does not mean burying your nose in other media 24 hours a day. The alternative is simple … but can…

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AI chatbots and “human” language; do words actually mean anything coming from a large language model?

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Is there any humanity in the words/text that come from large language models (LLM) and AI? ‘The most astonishing thing about ChatGPT and every subsequent AI chatbot has always been that these programs are the first nonhumans to be fluent in our language. That simple fact is also, as Deb Roy argues in an essay in The Atlantic, among the most alarming things about these…

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Should information be shared freely? Should information be controlled? What should it cost?

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Should information be shared freely? That is, should content (text, images, videos, etc.) be shared without heavy external control (usually aimed at making as much money or gaining as much power as possible)? And should the information be able to be accessed and shared at no additional cost? Is transparency and free access a part of the common good? Or, at the other end of…

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The perils of AI-generated deepfake videos

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“… AI tools to generate and edit content are getting more advanced, easier to operate, and cheaper to run—all reasons why the US government is increasingly paying to use them. We were well warned of this, but we responded by preparing for a world in which the main danger was confusion. What we’re entering instead is a world in which influence survives exposure, doubt is…

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AI and Caring … and not thinking like machines

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Amid the hype about the capabilities of artificial intelligence, there are assertions that AI can replace humans in situations where empathy and caring are especially important. But, is that true? Think about John Haugeland’s famous quote “the trouble with artificial intelligence is that computers don’t give a damn.” As Chris Tessone commented — “The philosopher John Haugeland explained why we should not trust software with…

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More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction?

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Francesco Agnellini, Binghamton University, State University of New York (from The Conversation) The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of articles on the…

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AI and Large Language Models: shortcomings and mistakes

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Large language models still struggle to tell fact from opinion “Large language models (LLMs) may not reliably acknowledge a user’s incorrect beliefs … The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions in areas such as medicine, law, and science, particularly when belief or opinions are contrasted with facts.” (from TechXplore, November 4, 2025) Go to the source: *Suzgun, M.,…

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New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype

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Kai R. Larsen, University of Colorado Boulder; Roman Lukyanenko, University of Virginia, and Thomas H. Davenport, Babson College (from The Conversation) Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that “a year in machine learning is a century in any other field.” But how do you know whether those advancements are hype or reality? Failures quickly multiply when there’s a deluge of new…

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You have the power to make your own decisions about issues important to your life–use it!

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It can seem–sometimes very visibly and brutally–that we are losing the ability to make and influence decisions about our own lives.  That no matter what we do and what we want, forces greater than us and our families and even our communities will steamroll us in order to impose someone else’s will–and that generally means greater power and greater wealth for a set of politicians…

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AI, social media, the Internet and how we experience the world; what is real? what are the impacts?

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It is common these days to see people walking their dogs or walking along streets, in parks, staring at or speaking to their smart phones. Yes, they are physically out in the “real” world but, in reality, they are deeply immersed within the artificial world created by AI, social media, and, yes, the Internet. In this hybrid existence, what is real? What actually exists? What…

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