I almost ended up doing a blog interview with the filmmaker behind Once The Ice Melts but with the sabbatical I wasn’t able to dedicate the time to it that would have been necessary. For anyone who is interested in culture, climate change, ethnography, and/or seeing part of the planet that you never have before, the movie is worth watching.
The ice melting in Greenland made the news not that long ago. Also relevant:
On other topics I’ve blogged about recently (and about which I will be giving a lecture on February 28th):
Microsoft wants Robots with ChatGPT
AI Developers are Playing with Fire
How ChatGPT fares translating ancient Greek
A student used ChatGPT to cheat in an AI ethics class
AI bots can seem sentient. Students need guardrails.
Steven Garner on Robot Theology
On Nathan Campbell blogged about ChatGPT and “Church in a Box”
John Warner emphasizes that ChatGPT is an opportunity more than or rather than a threat
ChatGPT may paraphrase without citing source (not surprising, given what it is and how it works)
Bob MacDonald had a conversation with ChatGPT about the Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes
I didn’t think of this issue: magazines being flooded with submissions of AI-generated stories
A Condolence Message Authored by ChatGPT (and an update)
Bing’s chatbot responds in a shocking way to someone whose name is Adolf
Google working out kinks in its AI “Bard”
Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: “I Want to Be Alive.
A report on a recent killer robots summit
Gizmodo article about Ada Lovelace
Humans and AI creating art collaboratively
The latest on Microsoft’s AI-enhanced Bing
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