Will AI Replace Humans?
Elon Musk has given us nightmarish warnings about how AI could become “an immortal dictator from which we would never escape.” And now we hear about GPT-3, created by OpenAI, a research business co-founded by Elon Musk. Since GPT-3 has been described as one of the...
Just-in-Case Learning versus Just-in-Time Learning
If you’ve had the fortune to have a college education and you’re two or more decades removed from the experience, what do you remember about what you learned? If you’re in the hard science world, with a PhD. in astrophysics and still working in that field, for...
Four “Impossible” Situations, Four Solutions, and Ten Predictions for the Future
Futurist Kevin Kelly is often quoted as saying, “The future happens very slowly, and then all at once!” This happens to be one of those “all at once” moments! We live in an incredibly fragile society on an incredibly fragile earth. And to many of us, it feels like...
