"The military also buys soap and water, but that doesn’t mean soap and water must be boycotted by those who hate war. They also buy pencils, and it’s perfectly clear to me that a man could use a pencil as a dagger or he could write a prescription to save a child’s life. So how tools are used is not the responsibility of the inventor."– Buckminster Fuller, Playboy InterviewThe past few weeks have featured some fascinating advancements with AI technology. Meta announced an AI tool that creates video from text, DALL-E revealed its image creator is open to all users, and AI music...well that's been happening for a couple of years now.Along with these advancements have come a number of concerns about privacy, data, and the line between human and technological design. Narratives have emerged that try to paint the technology itself as the culprit. The quote by Mr. Fuller expresses the idea that it is not the tool, but how it is used.Some of the resources for this week really push this idea to its edges. One of these is the highly sensitive area of marketing to kids in the metaverse. This CNBC article looks at how Walmart is testing this out in Roblox.Issues around plagiarism have arisen as well as AI technology has improved at composing paragraphs and even full essays. In these cases, a fundamental question is at play. Is a piece of writing still an original creation if I have programmed something to write it for me?Thankfully it's not all doom and gloom. Education writer and teacher Scott David Meyers outlines how universities are using decentralized models to create and share knowledge.There does appear to be a need for some sort of oversight and regulation within these industries regardless of how we view the impacts of these technologies on society. The final resource for this week is a detailed report by McKinsey & Company on web3.All of the resources for this week help us dive into these ideas in detail. They help us look closely at the idea that Mr. Fuller was espousing, it's not the tool itself that's good or bad, but how it's used.Check everything out linked below:🛍 Walmart wants to see how kids will shop in the metaverse✏️ How will student writing be impacted by AI?🏫 Universities continue to explore decentralized models📄 Major report from McKinsey on web3
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"The military also buys soap and water, but that doesn’t mean soap and water must be boycotted by those who hate war. They also buy pencils, and it’s perfectly clear to me that a man could use a pencil as a dagger or he could write a prescription to save a child’s life. So how tools are used is not the responsibility of the inventor."– Buckminster Fuller, Playboy InterviewThe past few weeks have featured some fascinating advancements with AI technology. Meta announced an AI tool that creates video from text, DALL-E revealed its image creator is open to all users, and AI music...well that's been happening for a couple of years now.Along with these advancements have come a number of concerns about privacy, data, and the line between human and technological design. Narratives have emerged that try to paint the technology itself as the culprit. The quote by Mr. Fuller expresses the idea that it is not the tool, but how it is used.Some of the resources for this week really push this idea to its edges. One of these is the highly sensitive area of marketing to kids in the metaverse. This CNBC article looks at how Walmart is testing this out in Roblox.Issues around plagiarism have arisen as well as AI technology has improved at composing paragraphs and even full essays. In these cases, a fundamental question is at play. Is a piece of writing still an original creation if I have programmed something to write it for me?Thankfully it's not all doom and gloom. Education writer and teacher Scott David Meyers outlines how universities are using decentralized models to create and share knowledge.There does appear to be a need for some sort of oversight and regulation within these industries regardless of how we view the impacts of these technologies on society. The final resource for this week is a detailed report by McKinsey & Company on web3.All of the resources for this week help us dive into these ideas in detail. They help us look closely at the idea that Mr. Fuller was espousing, it's not the tool itself that's good or bad, but how it's used.Check everything out linked below:🛍 Walmart wants to see how kids will shop in the metaverse✏️ How will student writing be impacted by AI?🏫 Universities continue to explore decentralized models📄 Major report from McKinsey on web3