Rapid tech innovation brings AI closer to consciousness

The latest large language models appear to question, display emotion, convey preference, possess independent thought, and even offer wisdom. Is this still algorithms, or something deeper?

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How to Solve the Global Water Crisis

[caption id="attachment_55255992" align="alignnone" width="940"] The Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan houses 36,500 vulnerable people who have fled across the border from their…

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Mobile Phone Addiction?

[caption id="attachment_55255946" align="alignnone" width="4032"] IPhone 8 shown in an Apple store.(Getty Images)[/caption] by Alyson Krueger It started out for Sam Machado as a relatively low…

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How to Counter Fake News

by Peter L. Levin During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Macedonian teens looking to get paid for ad-clicks, Russian cyber sophisticates apparently looking to tilt the outcome, and some home…

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How War Affects Wildlife

[caption id="attachment_55255351" align="aligncenter" width="3500"] [/caption] by Karen Kaplan To the list of ways that humans are making it hard for zebras, giraffes and other large mammals to…

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Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Power

[caption id="attachment_55254998" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Security guard walk past the Chinese national flag at the Military Museum of Chinese People's Revolution on March 1, 2008 in…

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Is the Future Human?

by Bryn Haworth* In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari is concerned with a human future that is no longer strictly human at all. It is a future that finally belongs to the geeks and to their…

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e-Estonia: Defending the Digital Frontier

[caption id="attachment_55254731" align="aligncenter" width="512"] Helen Popp[/caption] Maia Otarashvili* Ten years after experiencing debilitating cyber attacks from Russia, Estonia is more wired…

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