In “Making God: The Millenarianism and Manifest Destiny of AI and Technofuturism,” Emily Gorcenski (2023) demonstrates not only her experience as a “data scientist and engineer,” but also an ability, and indeed, a desire, to grasp the illusions and contradictions of the AI industry within which she works. If the former gives her self-published essay […]
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“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data,” The Economist declared in 2017 in an article discussing how governments might regulate those “titans” of the 21st century global economy, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. The idea that data, and AI more broadly, is the “new oil” and these companies the
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The School of Planning at Dalhousie University is hosting a panel discussion and workshop on April 11, 2023 to explore ways in which AI is transforming cities and shaping the future of urban life. The panel, which is offered both virtually and in-person, will feature Alex Lougheed (City of Toronto) and Marietta Le (MIT Department
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While the field of AI is full of “fathers”, “mothers” are noticeably absent. One of the only contenders is the nineteenth-century mathematician Ada Lovelace, who recognized that Babbage’s Analytical Engine, an early model of the computer, could not only crunch numbers but could also manipulate, according to rules, other symbols (for instance, musical notes or
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