The ambitious project never paid its expected dividends. Consumers simply weren’t as interested in these VR headsets as Zuckerberg thought they would be.
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Julie Jargon wrote an interesting piece for The Wall Street Journal about teen attitudes towards AI and found that their view of it isn’t so optimistic as many might assume.
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On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks is joined by Bradley Norris as they welcome Hal Philipp, the man behind the modern touchscreen and a prolific inventor with an impressive 98 U.S. patents. Hal shares his story and some of the lessons he’s learned over a career in invention.
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Owner Jeff Bezos has not yet succeeded in making the company financially viable in a time when so much media and journalism is now being independently created.
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High school students struggle in places afflicted with poverty, family breakdown, and other social woes. However, it doesn’t necessarily follow that students from wealthier regions are demonstrating academic excellence.
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But there is something beautiful about the imperfection of certain objects, architecture, and in the Arts, especially old buildings, films, paintings, and music.
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The movie ends with the baby staring at the earth, leaving the audience to either wonder what’s going on or what’s going to happen next.
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Enter Porsche, the car company, and it’s advertisement, contrasting with Coca-Cola, shows the time-tested beauties of hand-drawn and CGI animation.
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On the cover of the magazine issue, tech giants including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are pictured sitting on a construction beam.
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On today’s episode of Mind Matters News, Dr. Robert J. Marks joins Andrew McDiarmid, host of the ID The Future podcast, to share some of his personal anecdotes and professional insights about Dr. Walter Bradley, a scientist, humanitarian, and trailblazer in the world of intelligent design who passed away this year at the age of 81. As Marks explains, one way Read More ›
This sort of thinking assumes that modern people are no longer intelligent enough to do the things that former generations easily managed.
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This new litany of complaints feels like it will be a lot tougher for the tech behemoth to successfully battle.
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Reading great books might not immediately come to mind, but according to professor Shilo Brooks, it just might be a part of the answer.
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The book may not present neat answers to our problems, but it presents a vital picture of what it looks like to cherish life and hold onto to the inherent value of human life.
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AI is a tool with certain potentials and limits across various fields, but basic anthropological confusion can do a lot of damage. What happens when AI programs cease to be seen as mere tools, meant to used in limited ways and used wisely, and are considered “persons?” It sounds silly to pose the question, but that’s where we are. Futurism writer Frank Landymore reports on an Ohio legislative measure to ban human-AI marital unions. The bill must be intended to be preventative, since AI bots and programs aren’t recognized as legal persons (yet), but it speaks to a cultural trend that, if undealt with, could blow out of proportion. Landymore writes, Popular chatbots are capable of being eerily lifelike, effortlessly Read More ›
Most Americans can’t fathom that an unsavory social media post could earn them a knock on their front door a day later. But that’s happening in Europe on a near daily basis.
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Free speech, the constitutional right most of us Americans take for granted, is dying in the United Kingdom.
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As trust in legacy journalism erodes, more time and energy will get funneled into independent media and X isn’t playing fair here.
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One of the problems of AI-human “relationships” is that, by definition, we cannot relate to a computer, nor can a computer relate to us.
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According to a report from Reuters, Meta, parent company of Facebook, has allowed its chatbot to flirt and have “sensual” conversations with children. Meta AI is now accessible on various Meta platforms, and age limits are essentially suggestions, not requirements. Anyone can lie about their age and create an account. Jeff Horwitz writes, These and other findings emerge from a Reuters review of the Meta document, which discusses the standards that guide its generative AI assistant, Meta AI, and chatbots available on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the company’s social-media platforms. Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage Read More ›