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Enrique Dans

On the effects of technology on people, companies and society

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The enshittification of the automobile

A good article by Joaquín Peña on his website, “Your new car is 100% yours”, describes a…

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Why Big Tech may NOT end up dominating Generative AI

IMAGE: This figure shows the history of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations as directly measured at Mauna Loa, Hawaii since 1958. This curve is known as the Keeling curve, and is an essential piece of evidence of the man-made increases in greenhouse gases that are believed to be the cause of global warming. The longest such record exists at Mauna Loa, but these measurements have been independently confirmed at many other sites around the world.

It’s five minutes to midnight

Pictured is the history of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory…

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‘her’ is already here

Monday’s OpenAI demo, simply titled Spring Update, was quietly impressive: just half an hour, on a low-key set…

IMAGE: A person walking down a street aided by a personal AI voice assistant. The scene captures the individual interacting with a futuristic AI interface, enhancing their navigation and decision-making in a busy urban setting

What exactly is involved in creating a voice-activated AI assistant ?

IMAGE: A diagram of the data sources that OpenAI used to train ChatGPT3, spanning from scanned books, to Wikipedia, to the so called Common Crawl, a huge database with text collected from the internet

The great AI gold rush is on, but is this what we really want?

IMAGE: An illustration explaining C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything) technology and its use in preventing car accidents involving cyclists. It depicts a scenario where a car equipped with C-V2X technology communicates with a nearby cyclist, enhancing safety and technological innovation in traffic management

Why road users need to make the right connections

IMAGE: A deepfake of Donald Trump being arrested by the police, created using a generative algorithm

Public enemy number one

Few articles have ever alarmed and outraged me as the exclusive published by The Washington Post on Thursday about…

IMAGE: An illustration of a computer personified as daydreaming at a desk, capturing the whimsical idea of a computer engaging in human-like thought, complete with thought bubbles containing abstract symbols related to a generative algorithm’s process

Generative algorithms and the sleep of reason

The growing use of generative algorithms raises the question as to who is…

IMAGE: A student at a desk surrounded by several personalized artificial intelligence algorithms, each represented as a holographic figure teaching different subjects in a futuristic classroom. This scene conveys a dynamic and interactive learning environment enhanced by technology

Let’s use AI to liberate students and create a personalized learning process

Enrique Dans

On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at enriquedans.com since 2003)

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