by admin | Oct 30, 2023 | News, Science, society, Technology, Technology News, The Conversation
Discussions around science and technology can become controversial, such as public conversations around climate science or gene-editing tools. That might leave the impression that such conversations are best avoided. But it is important to have constructive... by admin | May 23, 2023 | AI, News, Other Tech News, society, Technology, The Conversation
A machine can only “do whatever we know how to order it to perform,” wrote the 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace. This reassuring statement was made in relation to Charles Babbage’s description of the first mechanical computer. Lady Lovelace could not have... by admin | May 18, 2023 | AI, evolution, Internet News, News, society, The Conversation
The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than us”. His fear is that AI will one day succeed in “manipulating people to do what it wants”. There are... by admin | Apr 29, 2023 | AI, News, Other Tech News, robots, society, The Conversation
The social separation imposed by the pandemic led us to rely on technology to an extent we might never have imagined – from Teams and Zoom to online banking and vaccine status apps. Now, society faces an increasing number of decisions about our relationship with... by admin | Apr 28, 2023 | brains, Internet News, News, Science, Social media, society, The Conversation
The big idea Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts – even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don’t need or want – according to our recent experiments... by admin | Apr 27, 2023 | News, Other Tech News, self service, society, Technology, The Conversation
Automation, once hidden behind closed doors in factories, is increasingly moving into public view. Customers can pay for groceries or clothing at a self-checkout machine, order fast food from a touchscreen kiosk or even pickup coffee from a “robo-café.” These...