Investing is about more than just crunching numbers. It’s also about observing the world around us, recognizing trends, and understanding what those trends will ultimately mean in terms of dollars.
Confronted with AI, we tend to split, apocalypse vs utopia. Psychoanalytically, doomer and zoomer make similar ...
In January, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton gave a lecture to Are We Doomed?, a course at the University of Chicago. He spoke via Zoom about whether artificial intelligence poses an existential ...
You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Think AI makes you smarter? Probably not, according to Saul Perlmutter, a Nobel Prize-winning ...
Entrepreneurs often limit their vision by focusing on achievable goals instead of transformative ones. This "practical thinking" is often fear disguised. To break free, question the origins of your ...
As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...
This post is Part 1 of a series. In my previous post, I discussed the conundrum we face regarding artificial intelligence (AI) today: On one hand, we’re told to use it or get left behind; on the other ...
Writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and amid another wave of hype about the potential of new technologies to solve humanity’s biggest problems, our goal for How to Think About Progress: A Skeptic’s ...
The retirement of West Midlands police chief Craig Guildford is a wake-up call for those of us using artificial intelligence (AI) tools at work and in our personal lives. Guildford lost the confidence ...
Studies aiming to maximize human creativity demonstrate that people work best when buoyed up by others who show them new ways to innovate. Artificial intelligence has the potential to become a ...
It is a long-standing habit of military historians to describe changes in warfare in terms of two biological paradigms: more or less steady evolution on the one hand and punctuated equilibrium on the ...