by Matthew Ledvina | Jul 12, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
Technology has never been developed at a more rapid pace than it has over the past few decades. In the last few years alone, we have seen exponential growth both in terms of capability and accessibility. People are becoming more connected and more likely to regularly...
by Matthew Ledvina | Jul 8, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
The Future of Life Institute announced in December 2018 that it had signed the Safe Face Pledge to help ensure that technologies for facial analysis will not be used in situations that might lead to bias or abuse, or be used as weapons. More information about the work...
by Matthew Ledvina | Jan 25, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark, a Swedish-American cosmologist, released a book in 2017 called Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The book explores the impact of AI on the future of human life on Earth, looking at the possible implications for society (both...
by Matthew Ledvina | Dec 10, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence
The Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari first sparked the interest of the public with his globally best-selling book Sapiens, a history of humanity originally written in Hebrew and translated into English in 2014. The book explores human endeavour throughout history,...
