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Note: This post was originally published on E-International Relations. Click here to view The rapid rise of AI companions represents a profound shift in how people relate to technology. Originally designed to answer queries, provide information, and assist with daily tasks, AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are now being customized by users... Continue Reading →
A version of this post was originally published on E-IR website and can be found here According to Dr. Dan Kotliar, technological advancements are accompanied by a certain degree of hype, or hyperbolic discourse. The internet, for example, was accompanied by a democratization hype with scholars and pundits arguing that the internet would enable new... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Iran-linked Website Leaks Secret Israeli Data (Haaretz Newspaper) The Technology Powering Taylor Swift, Netflix and the Sphere (Bloomberg) AI scientist : "We will expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045"| (The Guardian)... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech (MIT Technology Review) Immersive technology, blockchain and AI are converging — and reshaping our world (World Economic Forum) EU to take further... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- What the future holds for driverless cars (BBC News) Resistance Is Futile, But Maybe Not With AI (Bloomberg) It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem (The Atlantic)... Continue Reading →
Note: This post was originally published as an Op Ed at E-International Relations. It was co-authored by Ilan Manor, Corneliu Bjola and Bar Fishman. On November 23, 2023, the mayor of Paris announced that she was leaving X, the network formerly known as Twitter. Citing a rise in a disinformation, hate speech, racism and “vicious... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech (The New York Times) Israeli technology pioneers using drones, AI and big data to farm (Times of Israel) Can China develop its own... Continue Reading →
The recent actions of tech moguls and CEOs of AI (Artificial Intelligence) companies have left many feeling whiplashed. Several months ago, Open AI launched its generative language model ChatGPT. This was soon followed by a flurry of AI activity as start-ups and established tech giants such as Google and Microsoft flooded the market with AI... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- AI Search Is a Disaster (The Atlantic) China’s Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology—Its Courts (The Wall Street Journal) The metaverse is like every new technology (The Financial Times) The AI... Continue Reading →
In his last recorded interview from 1986, astronomer Carl Sagan stated “We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustive mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”. The ignorance, and power, which Sagan was... Continue Reading →
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