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Ai and Faith: Reflections on 2018 and a Look Ahead to 2019
AI and Faith: Looking Back on 2018 Change is in the wind for Big Tech in 2019 after significant societal concerns in 2018 reversed the flow of disruption back on to the Disruptors. While significant advances continued in data capture, predictive analytics, deep...
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Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole (Attention Economy – Part II)
Ding. Ding. Ding. You’ve just picked today’s Jeopardy Daily Double. How much would you like to wager? . . . And here is your clue: Hannah Weinhold’s TV viewing habits and Jair Bolsonaro’s election as president of Brazil. And the question is . . . “What are two widely...
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Means and Ends for AI and for Faith
Does religion say anything about artificial intelligence?
That is our essential question, isn’t it? AI and faith seem like opposites. Indeed, twenty months ago, our early Founding Members decided on this name to play off a sense of unlikely bed fellows. We set out to demonstrate that, in fact, these two ways of thinking pair well in the quest for human flourishing.
A lot has happened since we launched.
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The Machine Learning Paradigm: How AI Can Teach Us About God
It is no secret that AI is becoming a growing part of our lives and institutions. There is no shortage of article touting the dangers (and a few times the benefits) of this development. What is less publicized is the very technology that enables the growing adoption...
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TOOLS AND WEAPONS: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Leaders in both tech and government will be talking about this book, and grappling with it, for a very long time. And it often surprises — not because its opinions are startling, but because hearing them from a tech leader is so uncommon.
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THE MIND AND THE MACHINE: What it Means to Be Human, and Why It Matters
What does it mean to be human? Or, put more narrowly in light of the advances of AI and neuroscience, should we think of humans as simply a complex form of biochemical computer? Is the human mind, including its sense of self-consciousness, really nothing more than the...
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DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
It turns out that schizophrenia is not just a medical condition, it’s also an apt way to think about Eric Topol’s new book, DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again. Schizophrenia, after all, is characterized by inconsistent and...
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