Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Truthful? At that Psychology Today website, New York University professor Vasant Dhar argues that truthfulness and accuracy are not their creators’ primary concerns.
Here’s a bit from his article:
Given the hype about (and the unquestioning faith that some are placing in) AI, I commend it as a timely and worthwhile read.
It’s a Smart, Smart World* 0
There’s a reason that, when I need to buy a new appliance, the first thing I say to the salesperson is, “I don’t want anything smart.”
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*With apologies to Harry Shearer for stealing the title of one his regular features.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
As you prepare to board public transit, demonstrate politeness to your fellow riders.
So many guns. So much stupid.
The Injustice League of America 0
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It is right and proper to prosecute a person who violates a just law.
It is wrong to persecute persons just for being who they are.
Yet Trump maladministration spurns the first, embraces the second.
This methinks is the very definition of the rule of flaw.
The Bully’s Pulpit 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper argues that Donald Trump doesn’t realize that “that bullying, arrogance and going it alone doesn’t get the job done . . . ..”
Methinks he has a point.
Afterthought:
Probably because, as Mary Trump pointed out in the previous post, it’s always worked for him in the past.
Dire Straits (of Hormuz) 0
Mary Trump discusses the implications of other western nations’ refusal to support Donald Trump’s war on Iran.
The Rule of Lawless 0
It appears that we can now look forward to the initiation of the inquisition.
Courting Disaster 0
Above the Law reports on an attorney-at-flaw.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mild language.
American Stasi 0
Apparently, they do indeed want to use “indiscriminate force against persons exercising their freedom of speech.
All the News that Fits 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s celebrating his efforts to suppress freedom of speech.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And politeness, it appears, provokes panic.
The panic-causing sound had a much more mundane origin: people crushing water bottles.
Welcome to life in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.