The legend is told about King Canute, the 12-century ruler in England, who planted his throne at the edge of the ocean and demanded that the tides recede. His power was limited, and, contrary to popular belief, he allegedly did this to demonstrate the limits of his power — not because he wrongly assumed he […]

The bestselling children’s writer Roald Dahl (1916-1990) whose stories include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, 1971. Roald Dahl has been making headlines of late, after a series of sensitivity edits were made to the author’s famously macabre children’s stories. Dahl’s adult short stories aren’t as beloved, but are very […]

File photo of Elon Musk, founder, CEO of SpaceX at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Jan. 19, 2020. Elon Musk signed an open letter on Tuesday calling for a six-month pause in the development of artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot that’s become incredibly popular since it was first made […]

Last week, two prominent leaders in the world of tech made some remarkable statements about AI. Bill Gates recently wrote: “AI is the most important technological advance in decades.” Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, in his keynote at their developer’s conference last week, said that, “AI is having its iPhone moment”, referring to the incredible […]