Helping Children Navigate Misinformation

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Artificial Intelligence: Will It Achieve Consciousness?

"We define consciousness, and then answer the question whether AI machines are capable of being Conscious? How would we recognize it if it happened? Wikipedia defines consciousness as awareness of internal and external existence. Scientific American defines it as everything you experience.

"In 1950, English mathematician Alan Turing proposed a way to determine whether a machine can actually think, whether it as a mind, called the Turing test in his honor, but was originally called the imitation game. In this test, a human judge holds a text conversation with a human being and a one a computer. If he cannot reliably tell which of the two entities is artificial, then the artificial machine must be considered as having a mind. In March of 2024, Stanford University researchers reported that the latest version of ChatGPT, GPT 4, had passed a rigorous version of the Turing test.

"But this does not mean ChatGPT is conscious. The problem with the Turing test is that while it can show that a machine can simulate human conversation, it does not prove that the machine has a mind, or is aware. While a computer may perfectly simulate the workings of a coffee machine, it does not make anything that we can actually drink."

Click on the link below for the details and an informed opinion on the matter:

How AI Will Become Self-Aware and When? A Lot Sooner than you think!

A Different Future For Humanity

"With AI progressing by leaps and bounds and several commercial humanoid robots developing fast, both knowledge jobs and manual labor jobs are on the edge of a major disruption. What will people do for work when robots can do all the work for far cheaper? Why bother learning anything when AI devices can give you any answer you need at any moment? And what kind of future are we heading toward?"

Click on the link below for a video delving into a future that humanity has never had to face before:

Why Even Learn Things Anymore?

Understand What Is The Greater Negative Influence In The USA

"Everyone knows the rule about not meeting your heroes because they'll so often disappoint you, today we look at the most disappointing yet most idolized false heroes of our day, the twits of tech and the zany hijinks they've been getting up to recently."

Click on the link below for an expose of the dangerous influence of for-profit corporations, especially in technology fields:

The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech

(Please understand that I support REGULATED capitalism,
BUT, that is not what is happening in the USA)

Deep Fakes & AI: Destroying Truth And The USA

"AI-generated deepfakes, entirely fabricated audio and video of recognizable people, are here. They have been on the horizon for years but they have finally arrived during the biggest global election year in history which may prove to be a make-or-break year for democracy itself as we struggle to separate fact from fiction and autocracy is on the rise around the world."

Click on the link below for a problem that society MUST address YESTERDAY!!

Deep-Fakery and Deep Consequences for Democracy

How To Tell If A Photo Is AI-Generated

"Manipulated images and fraudulent photos generated with artificial intelligence are proliferating online — and the problem will surely grow. Fifty-eight percent of Americans think that AI tools will increase the spread of false information during the 2024 election, according to a poll released in November by the Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy." ​​

"And fakes can be hard to spot. In a 2022 study in the journal Vision Research, participants not only struggled to distinguish real faces from fake faces but sometimes “believed fake faces to be more real than real faces.” ​​

"And in an October survey by the Canadian Journalism Foundation, more than half of boomer and Gen X respondents confessed they weren’t confident about distinguishing between AI- and human-generated content.​ Here are ways to tell what’s real — and ensure that you aren’t sharing false images with others.​"

Click on the link below for the information:

How to Use Reverse Image Search for Fake Photos

Why We Need More REGULATED Capitalism

"The need to hold industries to high safety standards seems like an obvious priority. Yet in reality, questionable business practices are widespread -- from deep-fakes to mass data collection. Vanderbilt University Professor Ganesh Sitaraman says it is time for Congress to clamp down on rampant use of artificial intelligence and tighten regulations on the aviation industry. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss his latest book 'Why Flying Is Miserable and How To Fix It.'"

Click on the link below for the details of corporate monopoly abuse highlighting the airline industry as an example:

"Why Flying Is Miserable" Author Offers Solutions for Airlines and AI

The Militarization Of Space

"David Ignatius is the longtime foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post. He’s also the author of 11 spy thriller novels that draw on decades of experience reporting on espionage and spying. He joins Preet to discuss the escalating race between the US and China to control space, how artificial intelligence could influence the future of warfare, and his latest four-part novella published in the Washington Post."

Click on the link below for a podcast discussing space as a significant future location for international conflict:

The Geopolitics of Spying & Space

Artificial Intelligence: What's Ahead Is Going To Be A Revolution

Click on the link below for one of the best interviews on what our children and grandchildren will be contending with, good and bad, regarding AI:

Artificial Intelligence Revolution

AI, Consciousness, And Intelligence

"Artificial Intelligence continues to be the talk of the town, but how intelligent are they really? Come to think of it, what do we mean by "intelligence" anyway? In this video, we'll look at IQ tests for humans and for computers and see how current AIs have scored."

Click on the link below for an interesting video analyzing the concepts of intelligence and consciousness:

It's not AI consciousness that worries me, but their intelligence

More On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Click on the links below for more information, projections, and speculations regarding the future, good and bad, of what some are calling the most important advancement of technology since the inventions of the wheel and electricity:

Is AI Coming for Our Jobs?

AI Has Reached A Tipping Point

A Look At The Future Of Artificial Intelligence

"For this video, we have looked at what AI applications are currently under development and added some wild speculation about where things will be going in the near future."

Click on the link below for some interesting speculations on this subject from Sabine Hossenfelder:

Artificial Intelligence: What's Next?

ChatGPT 101

"ChatGPT is an intelligent chatbot that uses natural language processing. The GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which means it generates responses, is pre-trained by humans, and transforms input data into output. 

"This model was created by an artificial intelligence research company called OpenAI. 'ChatGPT's power is the ability to interpret the context and meaning of a query and produce a relevant answer in grammatically correct and natural language, based on the information it has been trained on.'"

Click on the link for more about this fascinating AI tool:

Inside AI's Mind: How ChatGPT Actually Works

The Internet And Artificial Intelligence (AI)

"Today, we take a look at some of the emerging elements of technology and regulation that will likely shape the next era of the internet and our relationship to it. For today, these will include synthetic relationships with artificial intelligence, fake audio, and video virtually indistinguishable from reality that will facilitate disinformation, reinterpreting Section 230 for a new era of internet content and the ongoing struggle to regulate social media platforms."

Click on the link below for a podcast analysis of the dangers ahead regarding AI's effect on our media, particularly the internet:

Shaping the Future of the Internet

Are Globalization And Robots Going To Take Your Job?

"Far from it. Thanks to rising prosperity and technological innovation, American jobs aren’t disappearing, they’re getting better. As people get wealthier, more of us are getting to do work that we love.

"For centuries, most people have had to grimly soldier on in unfulfilling but necessary work. That’s changing quickly. While technology and trade free Americans from mind-numbing drudgery, prosperity creates markets for all the goods and services that creative people pursuing their passion can dream up. For the first time in history, most people can earn a living doing what they really want to do."

An optimistic view of the future of work:

The End of Work 

(PNG Mart)

Artificial Intelligence Can Save Lives

"Reports assert that Japanese doctors have, for the first time in history, used artificial intelligence to detect a type of leukemia, which helped to save a patient's life."

AI Saves Woman’s Life By Identifying Her Disease When Other Methods (humans) Failed