The iPhone already has an accelerometer, gyroscope, light meter, microphone, camera and GPS. Why does Apple now want you to tell it how you’re feeling?
Meta’s Threads platform experienced a significant drop in users recently.
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It’s difficult to see how artificial intelligence systems work, and to see whose interests they work for. Regulation could make AI more trustworthy. Until then, user beware.
Threads is the latest social media platform to try to take on Twitter.
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In the marketplace of ideas, for an app or product to be considered successful, it must be widely adopted for it to represent an innovation.
An Australian law meant to force tech companies to fund news media lacks transparency in terms of how much money some outlets have received.
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Australia’s law to force tech giants like Meta and Google to pay media organizations has not always meant better outcomes for journalism. Will the same happen in Canada?
Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
Over the past decade, a number of companies, think tanks and institutions have developed responsible innovation initiatives to forecast and mitigate the negative consequences of tech development. But how successful have they been?
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When OpenAI claims to be “developing technologies that empower everyone,” who is included in the term “everyone?” And in what context will this “power” be wielded?
The Online News Act, or Bill C-18, is Canada’s attempt to address the imbalance between digital platforms and news publishers.
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The Online News Act could result in the formation of new agreements between news organizations and digital platform giants, which could give rise to a number of worrying developments.
Some critics have claimed that artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has “killed the essay,” while DALL-E, an AI image generator, has been portrayed as a threat to artistic integrity.
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Rather than seeing artificial intelligence as the cause of new problems, we might better understand AI ethics as bringing attention to old ones.
Going online often involves surrendering some privacy, and many people are becoming resigned to the fact that their data will be collected and used without their explicit consent.
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Many people have become resigned to the fact that tech companies collect our private data. But policymakers must do more to limit the amount of personal information corporations can collect.
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online