Tag: artificial intelligence (AI)
A robot breaks the finger of a 7-year-old: a lesson in the need for stronger regulation of artificial intelligence
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Disturbing footage emerged this week of a chess-playing robot breaking the finger of a seven-year-old child during a tournament in Russia.
Public commentary on this event...
Frankenstein: how Mary Shelley’s sci-fi classic offers lessons for us today about the dangers of playing God
Image: Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster.
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, is an 1818 novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Set in the late 18th century,...
When self-driving cars crash, who’s responsible? Courts and insurers need to know what’s inside the ‘black box’
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The first serious accident involving a self-driving car in Australia occurred in March this year. A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when hit by a...
How to preserve our privacy in an AI-enabled world of smart fridges and fitbits? Here are my simple fixes
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of a system – the amount of disorder – only ever increases. In other words,...
Two years into the pandemic, why is Australia still short of medicines?
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This might be a familiar scene. You pop into your local pharmacy to fill a script and you’re told your regular medicine...
Yes, AI may take some jobs – but it could also mean more men doing care work
Care work isn’t confined to the home, or care professions
such as nursing or childcare, it also happens in professional life
– and...