How can you drive 400 miles and not wonder where you’re going?
18 months, 500 hours, 148 million pixels and 186,000 data points. “All that work, for this?”
Once again, we are dragged into a race between man vs. machine…
Using algorithmic calculations to predict likely words is not writing.
Online education is, at best, a parachute until teachers and students can return to the classroom.
Online and face-to-face classes are not the same except in one sense: the tuition for both remains the same.
Why do serious-minded computer scientists use the language of religious mysticism?
Elon Musk put a chip in a pig’s brain to learn what a pig thinks about.
Technological advancement may be inevitable, but it is not inevitably good for all of us.
The skill you practice online does not provably transfer to a skill in life.
If it’s real for ten minutes, it’s real enough to injure.
We need to bring artificial intelligence out of the corporate shadows and into the light.
If healthy relationships are nourishing meals, then social media is cotton candy—a sweet, vanishing sugar rush.
GPT-3 may also mark the death of human painting and drawing.
Big Tech is changing how all of us think, even changing the structure of the brain.
Will AI explain to humans that the joke is on us?
We must ask anew: what does it mean to be human?
The AI religion faces the possibility that AI will change doctrine each time it is queried.
Dan Hunter is an award-winning playwright, songwriter, teacher and founding partner of Hunter Higgs, LLC, an advocacy and communications firm. H-IQ, the Hunter Imagination Questionnaire, invented by Dan Hunter and developed by Hunter Higgs, LLC, received global recognition for innovation by Reimagine Education, the world’s largest awards program for innovative pedagogies. Out of a field of 1200 applicants from all over the world, H-IQ was one of 12 finalists in December 2022. H-IQ is being used in pilot programs in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, North Carolina and New York. He is co-author, with Dr. Rex Jung and Ranee Flores, of A New Measure of Imagination Ability: Anatomical Brain Imaging Correlates, published March 22, 2016 in The Frontiers of Psychology, an international peer-reviewed journal. He’s served as managing director of the Boston Playwrights Theatre at Boston University, published numerous plays with Baker’s Plays, and has performed his one-man show ABC, NPR, BBC and CNN. Formerly executive director of the Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (MAASH) a statewide advocacy and education group, Hunter has 25 years’ experience in politics and arts advocacy. He served as Director of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs (a cabinet appointment requiring Senate confirmation). His most recent book, Atrophy, Apathy & Ambition,offers a layman’s investigation into artificial intelligence.