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Nora Roberts, Margaret Atwood sign Authors Guild letter to fight AI : NPR
A visitor walks past shelves of books at the Mohammed bin Rashid Library in Dubai in June 2022. The library incorporates technology and artificial intelligence, including robots to help visitors and an electronic book retrieval system. It’s just one example of the many ways AI has found its way into the world of books. Giuseppe …
Sci-Fi Authors Have Blown Our Expectations of Technology Out of Proportion, Says WekaIO founder
Sci-fi authors have seriously damaged people’s expectations of future technologies, according to Omri Palmon, co-founder of data storage startup WekaIO Inc. Palmon participated in a panel discussion on artificial intelligence, held on Monday as part of Calcalist and Israel’s Bank Leumi’s Mind the Tech conference in Tel Aviv. The panel was hosted by Calcalist reporter …
Georgia college students burn Latina author’s book after she talked about white privilege
Students at a Georgia university burned a Latina author’s book after she talked about white privilege at a campus event. Video showing a group of laughing students gathering around a flaming grill, watching pages of the book “Make Your Home Among Strangers” burn, has been widely shared on social media. The footage was shot shortly …
Laurence Delina Authors Paper Providing Framework on Technology Use to Local Climate-Development Organizations
Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper titled “ICTs for delivering climate-development strategies: an informational governance framework for local climate-development organizations” published in the journal Climate and Development. Around the world, a growing number of “climate-development organizations” (CDOs) — particularly at …
APSU history students use video-conferencing technology to connect with prominent authors across the U.S.
CLOSE Books, unlike movies, don’t often come with “deleted scenes” or other bonus features. If you’re curious about the “making of” process or discovering what events didn’t make it into the final version, you’ll have to talk to the author. That’s what Austin Peay State University student Steve Sullivan did a few years ago, after …
