Human v Robot

Today we talk about Parasocial Relationships, which are asymmetric relationships between media figures and their fans. Links: AI: Is it Out of Control? What (p)doom is. The Influence of the Kardashian-Jenners on Fourth Wave Feminism Through Digital Media Platforms Parasocial Relationships: The Nature of Celebrity Fascinations Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Deeper M

From touchscreens to voice commands to immersive VR - what's next for Human-Computer Interaction? Links: 238 | Scott Shapiro on the Technology and Philosophy of Hacking - Sean Carroll Risk of Extinction from AI The Mother of All Demos Animagraffs The Sci-Fi interfaces of Wall•E Visions of the Internet in 2035

With the rise of Deepfake technology - can we trust anything anymore? Links: Making Beer: Human v robot Algorithm free social app The Gray Area - Vox Deepfakes, explained | MIT Sloan Applications and Risks of Deepfake Technology How Deepfake Technology Can Change The Movie Industry Midjourney Kills Free AI Image Generator Access After Explosion of Deep Fakes - Decrypt P

We dig into what Algorithms actually are, with tangents into why we should care about technical literacy. Links: CBC News: The House | Live Radio | CBC Listen Hugging Face Digital Literacy Archives - Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship Brookfield Institute: The State Of Digital Literacy In Canada Algorithms in a Nutshell [Book] Markov Chains | Brilliant

What’s going on with drones? It seems like they were poised to take over every aspect of our lives just a few years ago, and we haven’t heard much about them recently. Links: ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT - The New York

Is it possible for AI to have intuition in the same way that humans do? How do we even know what human intuition is, and is it actually that useful? Links: Meeting Owl 3: 360° Video Conferencing Camera, Mic, and Speaker Bing’s Chatbot Declares its Love and Elon Musk Rewrites the Twitter Algorithm - The New York Times Association for Psychological Science: Intuition

Are Cyborgs coming in the near future? Are we already Cyborgs? What is the current state of augmenting our physical and intellectual capabilities? Links: Multimodal Large Language Models Marc Andreessen: We’re heading into a world where a flat-screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100 and a 4-year degree costs $1M | Fortune The tech behind Artifact, the newly la

How we interact with machines and how is that different from how we interact with humans? Links: Hard Fork Podcast: ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom and Is ‘M3GAN’ Real? Dear Hank & John: About | WNYC Studios | Podcasts (Episode 358) The Atlantic: How AI Will Rewire Us Do you swear at Alexa? What our treatment of AI assistants says about humans | CBC Radio Res

The current AI boom has made us want to revisit and think more about what kind of jobs are at risk of automation or AI replacement? Should we be worried or will new types of jobs outpace the jobs that are becoming obsolete? Links: Washington Post’s In and Out for 2023 Holiday Message 2022 | Thinking Really Slowly - Sean Carroll Will Web Developers be replaced by AI &

Today we talk about the internet of things: how has changed it changed our lives and what changes are on the horizon? Links: Cortex #136: 2023 Yearly Themes K-pop: The rise of the virtual girl bands NordicIT - How Internet of Things impact our everyday life Wikipedia - Stuxnet Entrepreneur - Why It’s Too Early To Write Off The Internet of Things Realagriculture - Low