TV was my escape and my first friend.The show I really related to was Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this sci-fi world, humanity is part of the United Federation of Planets where all members, humans and space beings, work together to explore the galaxy(星系). There are wars, but...
Founder Joy Buolamwini delivered a TED Talk as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about the "coded gaze." The AIs she has worked with had a more difficult time reading Black faces, simply because they hadn't been programmed to recognize a wide range of ...
AI researchers are still debating how best to evaluate the capabilities of the latest generative AI technology and how it compares to human intelligence. There are tests that judge AI on solving puzzles, logical reasoning or how swiftly and accurately it predicts...
We must uphold and improve our country’s foundational, basic, and important political systems, expand democratic channels, and diversify the forms of democracy, so as to ensure that people participate in various ways in the management of state, economic, ...
Globalization facilitates the flow of knowledge, technology, and resources, contributing to sustainable development. However, not all aspects of globalization are beneficial: financial globalization, for instance, shows a complex relationship, requiring careful management to avoid improving inequalities and ...
Physicist-in-Residence, Integrated Space Science & Technology Institute, Dept. of Physics, American University Frederick Bruhweiler is a physicist who uses data from space and ground-based instruments and telescopes to model the cosmos. He helped develop the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph and Spa...
Everything is all AI first. But I still think, like with any new technology, it’s going to take a long time for adoption. When the Google search engine and AltaVista first came out, there were companies you could call to do searches for you. They would do a search on Google and th...
(Side note: The Goldwing’s flat opposed 6 cylinder engine is less “yet another motorcycle engine” than “such a marvel of technology that it’s a joy knowing they exist”. The power delivery is less “zippy zoom” than the silent, inexorable, soul-rending, might of a nuclear reactor...
Scientific inquiry was originally conceived, not as a necessary step in better living through technology, but as a way of understanding God’s creation — and thereby a way of knowing the workings of God’s mind. It is no accident that the early scientists of the Renaissance, like Galileo,...
“cause” of their problems. Such a process may take place with AGI and robots as well: “We’re losing jobs!”“They are taking over!”“I don’t want my daughter to marry one!” But the rising tide of technology will improve the lives of people too, and few of us would be ...