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Last week, Google’s Chief AI scientist, Geoffrey Hinton, sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” resigned and offered interviews…
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The Internet, particularly in the case of social media sites, has become a danger to modern civilization. That’s an alarming…
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The debate about whether or not artificial intelligence can achieve a level comparable to human intelligence is one that is…
Julie E. Czerneda’s To Each This World, which will come out in November, 2022, is one of the most thought-provoking,…
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Blasting Into Space With A Song The U.S. Space Force, an independent arm of the service that operates under the…
I was surprised when my publisher categorized my novel, Ezekiel’s Brain, as “Dystopian fiction” on Amazon. Still, it’s a category…
Last week my wife and I took a brief trip into U.S. history. My wife had always had the dream…