Claims that Artificial Intelligence Can Abuse Human Empathy

In a recent Guardian opinion article, Human-like Programs Abuse our Empathy–even Google engineers aren’t immune, Professor Emily M. Bender writes a word of caution about the emerging efficiency of language models. She urges tech companies that intelligences, like Google’s chatbot LaMDA, need to identify themselves as machines, rather than pass themselves off as human. Bender…

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Artificial Intelligence and Intestinal Parasite Detection

Dr. Mark R. Couturier is an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. His research creates improved methods of diagnostics for emerging infectious agents. Originally published on April 11, 2022, the following is his presentation abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a recent tool for clinical pathology and clinical microbiology specifically for…

It Isn’t a Competition Unless We Make It One

In the November 30, 2020 Forbes article, Staying One Step Ahead of AI, Neera Jain (Assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University) calls for the reorientation of the education system to promote originality and problem solving, rather than all those standardized tests that promote conflating distilling the learning experience down to simple memorization. It…