Sam Baron, The University of Melbourne and Jenny Judge, The University of Melbourne
Brain scanners and AI can turn brainwaves into streams of text – but language only captures a tiny fraction of our mental experience.
Pepper the robot bows after it preached to visitors during a demonstration of funeral ceremony with a Buddhist priest in Tokyo in 2017.
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Revelations by an investigative journalist that Israel is using AI to identify and target suspected Hamas members have shone a light on a frightening new aspect of warfare.
Joe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
AI has the potential to diminish the human experience in several ways. One particularly concerning threat is to the ability to make thoughtful decisions.
The public needs to be consulted when developing legislation to regulate artificial intelligence.
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The Canadian government’s proposed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence doesn’t address the government’s own applications. More oversight and consultations are needed to protect Canadians.
From an economic development perspective, the highly skewed nature of AI activity in the US is likely to create large pools of high-skilled workers in some regions while leaving other regions behind.
Companies will not be better managed with the arrival of AI — quite the contrary.
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Businesses are increasingly promoting themselves as AI-savvy to attract investment. But as two large US firms discovered, it doesn’t pay to make claims that can’t be backed up.
Your phone can’t take a perfectly clear picture of a solar eclipse like a professional camera can, but there are lots of other creative directions you can take to capture the rare moment.