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Month: October 2023

On the Possible Dangers to the Human Race Poised by Artificial Intelligences

On the Possible Dangers to the Human Race Poised by Artificial Intelligences

I wrote the first draft of this post back in July of this year when the first wave of the Fear AI tsunami hit the media. It was a big wave, and the folks at the WHY Files YouTube show did a good job in capturing the emotional impacts in their episode, Artificial Intelligence Out of Control: The Apocalypse is Here | How AI and ChatGPT End Humanity. It was, though, a recent news article that caught my attention and made me decide to revise and publish this post today.

Words Matter

Words Matter

As a writer I spend a lot of time thinking about the meaning of words. I like doing that, and I like using words to paint a verbal picture. As a human being, I also spend a lot of time thinking about words said to me, sometimes probably too much time.