AI
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Hector Vila: AI and the uncertain future
Throughout this series on artificial intelligence, we’ve explored its fundamentals, examined its environmental impact, and analyzed its implications for governance. Now let’s turn to perhaps the most crucial…
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Ways of Seeing: AI bots aren’t always intelligent
Recently, my cell phone stopped receiving texts and phone calls. Because I have a landline, I was able to call my service provider to get help. Like most…
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Does AI improve doctors’ diagnoses? Study puts it to the test
With hospitals already deploying artificial intelligence to improve patient care, a new study has found that using Chat GPT Plus does not significantly improve the accuracy of doctors’…
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Hector Vila: AI governance looming large
Governance has dominated our discourse since at least 2016. We’ve been wrestling with the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants; rules and procedures for making decisions;…
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Hector Vila: AI is feeding global warming
Data centers, which house large numbers of networked computers, servers and storage systems that process, store and distribute massive amounts of data out of sight, and out of…
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Letter to the editor: Artificial Intelligence has plenty of drawbacks
While fears of imminent catastrophe caused by Artificial Intelligence may be overblown (at least in the immediate future), as suggested in your recent series, its impacts are already…
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Hector Vila: How to understand the different kinds of AI
Artificial Intelligence is a confusing term because it encompasses quite a lot. Take for instance cruise control in your car, that’s artificial intelligence, as is the autopilot on…
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Guest editorial: How AI is reshaping education and society
We’re halfway into the fall, 2024, academic term, and chatter suggests anxiety about the future of education and artificial intelligence. That AI will replace human teachers entirely. Students…
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Jessie Raymond: An AI humor column? Not yet
I’ve heard that someday, on its unstoppable and accelerating march to becoming sentient and subjugating humanity, artificial intelligence (AI) is going to put writers out of work.
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Local artist creates by coding
Pablo Picasso had paint, Michelangelo worked with marble. Bristol artist James Merrill’s medium is computer codes.
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Are Eric Killorin’s AI-enhanced images art?
“I feel that AI is just another chapter in a long and winding road of developments in the creative arts,” said photographer Eric Killorin.