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News
Date
May 8, 2023

Categorized
Media

Tagged
children, media, mental health, social media, Technology, The Conversation, violence}

When Disaster Strikes Through the TV

_{News cycles that profit off constant, sensationalized negativity aren't helping} _{News

May 8, 2023

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Media}

A hundred years ago it would have been unimaginable to watch a tragedy unfold on the other side of the world. Such news might get peddled via newspaper, or later through radio, but the access we now enjoy to the rest of the world is unprecedented. How is that affecting us? According to this study, covered in an article from The Conversation, televised disaster and tragedy can severely affect the mental health of children to varying degrees. The authors write, Our latest research uses brain scans to show how simply watching news coverage of disasters can raise children’s anxiety and trigger responses in their brains that put them at risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms. It also explores why some children are more Read More ›

Dystopian futuristic cyberpunk city at night in a neon haze. Blue and purple glowing neon lights. Urban wallpaper. 3D illustration.

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
September 22, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Artists and AI art, Beauty, Creativity, Pornography, Science fiction, Technology, violence, virtue}

AI Art Tool Can Generate Both Beauty and Horror

_{Making AI image generators mainstream might offer people an interesting new frontier to explore. But the tech has a serious dark side} _{Peter Biles

September 22, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

The capacities of AI art generators have grown much in the past couple of years. Through complex algorithms, AI scans the internet and manages to make artistic composites, some sublime, others grotesque. Today, AI art generators have incredible potential, but their capacities can also be easily abused. According to a Wired article from September 21, Science fiction novelist Elle Simpson-Edin wanted to generate artwork for her newest book. So, she tried AI tools. Her novel unabashedly depicts gore and sex, but most of the AI tools she discovered included “guardrails” that sanctioned explicit content. That is until she found Unstable Diffusion, “a Discord community for people using unrestricted versions of a recently released, open source AI image tool called Stable Diffusion.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
November 5, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Social Factors

Tagged
computer models, religion, science media, violence}

Did AI show that we are “a peaceful species” triggered by religion?

_{No, but this episode shows how science media sometimes help mislead the public} _{Jonathan Bartlett

November 5, 2018

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Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Social Factors}

Unfortunately, most of the public knows about science only through science media professionals. And it is apparent that science media professionals often know little to nothing of what they are talking about.

Big Question: Can Big Data Read the Minds of Others?

_{And should Facebook scan your posts for suicidal thoughts? (It does.)} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 24, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors}

Neurologist Robert Burton reflects at Aeon on the fact that mind reading does not really work. Most fashionable theories of mind, like the mirror neuron theory, have not really been much use: This is not to say that we have no idea of what goes on in another’s mind. The brain is a superb pattern-recogniser; we routinely correctly anticipate that others will feel grief at a funeral, joy at a child’s first birthday party, and anger when cut off on the freeway. We are right often enough to trust our belief that others generally will feel as we do. More. True, but the problem isn’t with recognizing what most people probably think; it’s with recognizing unusual but important patterns. How Read More ›