Racing Toward Utopia or Dystopia? The High-Octane Ideas of Effective Accelerationism Today’s episode explored the futuristic ideology of Effective Accelerationism. This movement advocates hastening progress towards benevolent artificial general intelligence that could help humanity flourish. We defined key terms like
A Beginner’s Guide to AI – Episode 19
To Boldly Go Where No Algorithm Has Gone Before: Commander Data This episode explores AI ethics through the iconic character of Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We examine Data’s quest to understand humanity, including his limitations emulating
A Beginner’s Guide to AI – Episode 18
Prompt Engineering: The Secret Sauce for AI Success This episode unpacked why crafting excellent prompts is critical to get the most out of AI systems. Prompts act as instructions that steer the AI’s output in the desired direction. An effective
A Beginner’s Guide to AI – Episode 17
Predictive AI – Your Crystal Ball for the 21st Century Today we explore predictive AI – systems that analyze data to forecast future outcomes. We learn how techniques like machine learning help uncover patterns to make calculated predictions about the
A Beginner’s Guide to AI – Episode 16
Be My Eyes – How AI can help the Disabled This episode explored how AI is transforming assistive technology to expand accessibility for the disabled. We learned how modern AI enables advanced screen readers, speech recognition, facial/emotion detection and more.
A Beginner’s Guide to AI – Episode 15
Back to School, Version 2.0: How AI is Disrupting Education This episode explores how schools are adapting to powerful new AI technologies like ChatGPT that can generate remarkably human-like text and content. We discuss plagiarism risks and integrity concerns, but