Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

More from the fearsome marvel known as A.I.

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Naomi

Harper’s Weekly Review is keeping up with all our excitement over A.I.: It was revealed that bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles and that an Iowa school district had used ChatGPT to determine which books to ban. … Continue reading →

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How far has AI taken us? This far

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Naomi

From Harper’s September 2021 Index: Percentage of Europeans who would prefer to have packages delivered by a robot or drone instead of a human: 35 Who would like to see artificial intelligence replace some of their legislative representatives: 51

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Mysteries of Life: Retracing the voyage of the Mayflower?

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Naomi

OK, students, how many questions do you have about this, from Harper’s Weekly Review? [A] robot ship using artificial intelligence to retrace the voyage of the Mayflower turned back toward England.  

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