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It is the best of times! It is the worst of times! Charles Dickens didn’t do headlines, but if he did, the current debates about AI (Artificial Intelligence) in our lives and culture would be made for
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is the fastest growing company in the history of capitalism. In 2022 Sam Altman, the wonderkid CEO of OpenAI, described prospects for AI bluntly: “The good case is
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It’s unwise to take tech billionaires’ predictions about the future at face value. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s promises, very few of us have moved our work and social lives to the Metaverse. Aside from
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