No, Chat Bots Are Not Sentient
I cannot tell if this is misguided or evil: AIs are no longer mere tools like smartphones and electric cars,…
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OpenAI is Building a Disinformation Machine
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Regulating AI, Or Things Don’t Have to Be This Way Just Because They Are This Way
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Harvard’s Women’s Ice Hockey and the Myth of the Assh*le Coach
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