HennyGe Wichers, PhD

Have We Broken the Republic? - bellwether.works The United States has torn down the guardrails that held the republic together. The only question now is whether we can escape the fall.

With the No Kings protest today, I pulled together a clear explainer of the policy and power shifts since WWII leading to this moment - it’s been a long time coming. #NoKings

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It changed in the UK. In the Netherlands everyone still says "he's got corona" (no virus, just corona; COVID yields a blank stare).

Looks like a really engaging project!

Before I send any ideas over: I noticed EA/Longtermism alignment - how central is that perspective to your editorial approach?

Are you looking to foreground that lens, or also open to pieces approaching AI from different philosophical or critical standpoints?

AI Chatbots Are Getting Too Good at Making You Say ‘Yes’ | HackerNoon From pizza orders to smart home cameras, empathetic AI is now nudging our decisions in real time. Can we keep up?

My latest article is featured on HackerNoon's front page - check it out 👇 #AI #AIEthics

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Tasks that humans can do Tasks that machines can automate New tasks that humans Can do with the help of machines Fig 2: Humans and machines (image re-created from the talk) rhe white oval represents tasks we know about today and humans can do. The black shape inside it are ones that machines can automate. But there is a much larger space outside the ovals with new jobs that humans can do with the help of new technology. Right now, we don't know what those jobs are when it comes to Al. We need visionaries who can imagine and inspire new possibilities— similar to how the iPhone sparked mobile services and the app industry.

The Turing Trap: why pursuing human-like AI is misguided - bellwether works https://www.bellwether.works/the-turing-trap-why-pursuing-human-like-ai-is-misguided/ #AI #future

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What Happens When AI Commodifies Emotions? - bellwether.works The latest AI developments turn empathy into just another product for sale, raising questions about ethics and regulation.

🤖 The latest AI developments turn empathy into just another product for sale, raising questions about ethics and regulation.

Read the story 👇

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That's probably far too sensible for this world...

Empathy.exe: When Tech Gets Personal - bellwether.works The more robots act like us, the less they feel like tools. So how should we treat them? And what does that say about us?

🤖 The more robots act like us, the less they feel like tools. So how should we treat them? And what does that say about us?

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Incredible ideas - some better than others!

Memory in 3D: holograms to save data - and the planet - bellwether.works Holographic storage slashes energy use, boosts data capacity, and supports AI - offering a sustainable future for data centres.

💡Holograms can store data and slash energy consumption! Holographic storage might just be the breakthrough solution we need for a sustainable data-heavy future🌍

Read the full article 👇

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Beyond Moore’s law: specialised processors and modular chips - bellwether.works Task-specific computing is driving a hardware renaissance now that we can no longer rely on Moore's law to solve our problems.

“Moore’s law made us lazy” during the 1980s and 90s. Developers could rely on the adage ‘if it doesn’t work now, just wait until next year’. Money flowed to shrinking transistors to keep pace with Moore’s prediction, not to researching alternative approaches.

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Oh, cool! Please can I join, too?

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Quantum-inspired tech for Logistics: next-gen optimisation - bellwether.works InfinityQ's quantum-inspired technology uses the power of quantum computing while avoiding the difficult scaling problems.

Ising machines are pretty cool! Like rocket boosters for optimisation - whether logistics, finance, life sciences or any other hard problem.

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The Turing Trap: Why Pursuing Human-Like AI is Misguided - bellwether.works Fixating on building AI that automates and imitates people stifles true progress. But we can change the rules and do better.

Fixating on AI that automates and imitates people stifles true progress. But we can change the rules and do better. Erik Brynjolfsson explains how in his Ten Theses of the Turing Trap at Stanford HAI's New Horizons in Generative AI conference.

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AI is huge - and so is its energy consumption - bellwether.works AI could consume as much electricity as The Netherlands by 2027. Research warns we should use the technology only where it's really needed.

AI could consume as much electricity as The Netherlands by 2027 👇