• China’s Alibaba Joins AI Race To Challenge ChatGPT

    China’s Alibaba Joins AI Race To Challenge ChatGPT
    Open AI’s ChatGPT platform gathered 100 million active users in just four months, launching an all-out “arms race” between Internet giants Microsoft, Google, Baidu and Alibaba. There is no doubt that Apple is lurking in the shadows. Hundreds of app developers are already licensing the ChatGPT API to build related consumer and business products. ⁃ TN EditorAlibaba is the latest tech giant to wade into artificial intelligence chatbots by developing a tool like ChatGPT.
  • Are Americans Slouching Toward Technocratic Rule?

    Are Americans Slouching Toward Technocratic Rule?
    The liberal and thoroughly woke publication, The Conversation, reports on a poll that “Large numbers of Americans want a strong, rough, anti-democratic leader.” The only takeaway is that American sentiment is swinging toward those who can “just fix stuff” with more authoritarian and Technocratic rule. This is very dangerous Technopopulism, a blending of Technocracy and Populism.
    For further discussion of Technopopulism, see From Technocracy and Populism to Technopopulism
  • Scientism: The Technocratic Worship Of Science

    Scientism: The Technocratic Worship Of Science
    Others also recognized Scientism as not just a religion, but THE religion of the Technocrat class. It is ignorant, uninformed and, far from humble, real science. Furthermore, it has a priesthood that has become the arbiter of Scientism to mankind. Scientism immediately falls into the trap of pseudo-science, which in turn shreds real science. ⁃ TN EditorI’ve been reading “The Science Delusion” by Rupert Sheldrake, a timely treatise on fallible humans’ hubris.
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  • SMP 2023 scholarships: open now

    SMP 2023 scholarships: open now
    For Science Meets Parliament 2023, nine scholarship recipients will be able to access a full program of career-defining professional development training at no cost. Science Meets Parliament is Australia’s most significant event for deep engagement between the science and technology community and policymakers.
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