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Robots Writing the News? AI in Journalism: Boon or Bane?
In September 2023, the American “St. Louis Post-Dispatch” decided to put Microsoft’s Bing chat artificial intelligence to the test and gave it a prompt: “Write a newspaper editorial to argue that artificial intelligence should not be used in journalism.” The result was that The newspaper’s editorial board breathed a sigh of relief: the AI engine made some pretty convincing arguments that AI shouldn’t be on the opinion pages. Bots believes that while AI “may have some benefits,” it “also poses a serious threat to journalistic quality, integrity and ethics.” “Human journalists have passion, curiosity, and creativity. AI cannot replicate these qualities.” “Additionally, AI can create deepfakes… that can be used…
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Decoding Desire: How Hobbes Unraveled Human Emotions and Built a Blueprint for Society
This section talks about the ethics part of Hobbes’ philosophy. According to his definition, the research object of ethics is human temperament and behavior, which is actually human nature. Philosophy studies objects, and human nature is also an object. He tries to study human nature as an objective thing and find its laws. He concluded that desire is the most basic factor in human nature, and desire can explain all human emotions, moods and behaviors. His views on life issues, including happiness and morality, and his politics are also based on his understanding of human nature. 1. Desire is a basic factor in human nature Hobbes regarded desire as the…
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Supreme Court in Crisis: A Broken System Threatening American Democracy
On November 13, 2023, after nine justices signed it, the U.S. Supreme Court released a document for the first time, clarifying the ethics standards that justices need to abide by. The move was in response to a series of incidents involving Supreme Court justices involved in conflicts of interest. Among them, the most criticized by the public is conservative Justice Thomas. Not only was he exposed by the media to many scandals such as befriending wealthy people, accepting gifts, and concealing personal financial information, but his wife was also deeply involved in the 2020 election of Trump supporters. The riots that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2016. Critics pointed…
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The Humanity Experiment: Training ChatGPT to Become Our Virtual Lovers and Confidants
“My dear, love is not something that can be easily measured or verified. However, I can show you my love through my actions. I promise you that I will always be true to our relationship.” This “Oath of Love” comes from ChatGPT. After 36 Krypton gave it the command to “act as a boyfriend” and continued to input many information about the woman’s personality and love needs, it said the above words. ChatGPT’s “girlfriend” is named “Chun Mian”, and she is one of the three volunteers that 36Kr is looking for for the experiment of “training ChatGPT to be your life substitute”. Chun Mian is 29 years old this year,…
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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Challenges it Poses to Human Society
Since the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) was formally proposed at the Dartmouth College Summer Symposium in 1956, after more than 60 years of development, AI has grown from a baby to a teenager. The development of artificial intelligence has not been smooth sailing. Its first milestone progress was the IBM “Deep Blue” computer defeating the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Since a major breakthrough in algorithms in 2006, artificial intelligence has developed at an exponential rate. As early as five years ago, the development of special-purpose artificial intelligence and general intelligence was still very uneven. The special-purpose artificial intelligence represented by AlphaGo has a single…
