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The transformative power of video games: Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games- Wired
- 2021
Following the January 6th capital riots, there have been many ongoing investigations into right-wing extremists groups. pioneering these investigations are left-leaning hacktivists, determined to expose hate speech and abuse in private conversations.
- Wired
- 2021
- Wired
- 2021
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
Following the January 6th capital riots, there have been many ongoing investigations into right-wing extremists groups. pioneering these investigations are left-leaning hacktivists, determined to expose hate speech and abuse in private conversations.
Where do we draw the line in content moderation decision-making between allowing a feed of fake information and making sure we are not denying access to real news?
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- Association for Psychological Science
- 2019
Video games are a source of technology based entertainment and leisure. While there are a significant number of studies that suggest there may be a link between video games and digital addiction, this article investigates the potential prosocial behaviors and how the effects of gaming on well-being are moderated by and depend on the motivation for gaming, outside variables, the presence of violence, social interaction, and physical activity. This study suggests there may be evidence of an “optimal gaming profile” that can be used in the future for both academic- and industry-related research.
- Association for Psychological Science
- 2019
When and How Video Games Can Be Good: A Review of the Positive Effects of Video Games on Well-Being
Video games are a source of technology based entertainment and leisure. While there are a significant number of studies that suggest there may be a link between video games and digital addiction, this article investigates the potential prosocial behaviors and how the effects of gaming on well-being are moderated by and depend on the motivation for gaming, outside variables, the presence of violence, social interaction, and physical activity. This study suggests there may be evidence of an “optimal gaming profile” that can be used in the future for both academic- and industry-related research.
What are the possible benefits of video game play based on this study’s findings?
How are the impacts of video game play moderated by other factors?
How might you use this research to design video games that reach that optimal gaming profile as discussed in the conclusion of the article?
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- 10 min
- Engadget
- 2021
This article provides an excerpt from a book detailing the “Brooksian Revolution,” a movement in the 1980s pressing the idea that the “intelligence” of AI should start from a foundation of acute awareness of its environment, rather than “typical” indicators of intelligence such as pure logic or problem solving. By principle, a reasoning machine-learning loop that operates off of a one-time perception of its environment is inherently disconnected from its environment.
- Engadget
- 2021
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- 10 min
- Engadget
- 2021
Hitting the Books: The Brooksian revolution that led to rational robots
This article provides an excerpt from a book detailing the “Brooksian Revolution,” a movement in the 1980s pressing the idea that the “intelligence” of AI should start from a foundation of acute awareness of its environment, rather than “typical” indicators of intelligence such as pure logic or problem solving. By principle, a reasoning machine-learning loop that operates off of a one-time perception of its environment is inherently disconnected from its environment.
Why is an environment important to cognition, both that of humans and machines? Will robots ever be able to abstract the world, or model it, in the same way that the human brain can? Are there dangers to robots being strictly “rational” and decoupled from their environments? Are there dangers to robots being too connected to their environments?
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- 5 min
- Big Think
This video, narrated by science fiction author Ken MacLeod, explains how the cultural critiques presented in science fiction can be helpful in guiding inventors through how they might invent ethically, and what the primary societal concerns of a certain invention would be. Uses the example of robots as representative of labor issues to make the case that while science fiction plays a role in inspiring inventors and engineers, it should also lead them to question how technologies can be deployed ethically in different societal contexts.
- Big Think
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- 5 min
- Big Think
How sci-fi helps humanity avoid species-level mistakes
This video, narrated by science fiction author Ken MacLeod, explains how the cultural critiques presented in science fiction can be helpful in guiding inventors through how they might invent ethically, and what the primary societal concerns of a certain invention would be. Uses the example of robots as representative of labor issues to make the case that while science fiction plays a role in inspiring inventors and engineers, it should also lead them to question how technologies can be deployed ethically in different societal contexts.
What steps need to be taken for science fiction to be taken more seriously as a predictor of technologies or a propædeutic to ethics? What narratives from this “age of singularity” could you point to as particularly prescient or useful for discussing ethical concerns?