A Brave New Dystopian World
March 03, 2022
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The Flynn effect is over. That’s the trend whereby human intelligence increases by about 3 points a decade. Recent research reveals the trend is in reverse. Humans are getting dumber. Scientists speculate the reasons are varied: changes in our education systems, nutrition, the c
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July 15, 2021
Aarian Marshall, autonomous weapons, BERT, curating large data, GPT-3, large language models, National Commission on Artificial Intelligence, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots, planning for the future, prognosticators, Tom Simonite
Predicting the future is difficult. Who could have foreseen the pandemic in 2020? Or the insurrection on January 6 of this year? Even so, people do make a living as prognosticators. Land use planners are among them. They attempt to predict human migrations, for example– urban
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