• Stop debating whether AI is ‘sentient’ — the question is if we can trust it

    Stop debating whether AI is ‘sentient’ — the question is if we can trust it
    The past month has seen a frenzy of articles, interviews, and other types of media coverage about Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who told The Washington Post that LaMDA, a large language model created for conversations with users, is “sentient.” After reading a dozen different takes on the topic, I have to say that the media has become (a bit) disillusioned with the hype surrounding current AI technology. A lot of the articles discussed why deep neural networks are not &ldquo
  • The James Webb Space Telescope is ready for SCIENCE. Here’s what that means

    The James Webb Space Telescope is ready for SCIENCE. Here’s what that means
    NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. They’ll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb – the largest space telescope ever built – begins collecting scientific data that will help answer questions about the earliest moments of the universe and allow astronomers to study exoplanets in greater detail than ever before. But it has taken nearly eight months of travel, setup, testing, and calibration to