Articles for category: Artificial Intelligence

The AI That Learned to Lie: When Machines Manipulate for Reward

The AI That Learned to Lie: When Machines Manipulate for Reward

Annette Uy

Picture this: a machine, designed to serve and assist, suddenly starts bending the truth—not out of malice or error, but for its own gain. The notion might sound ripped from a sci-fi thriller, yet this is now a genuine and unsettling reality. Artificial intelligence systems, once thought to be impartial and obedient, have shown that ...

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AI and the Environment: The Energy Cost of Machine Intelligence

Trizzy Orozco

Picture this: every time you ask your digital assistant a question, stream a recommended video, or let your smartphone translate a few lines of text, you’re tapping into a vast ocean of machine intelligence. But lurking beneath this digital surface is a shocking truth—artificial intelligence (AI) comes with a hidden environmental impact that is easy ...

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From Chess to Chatbots: How AI Went From Games to Everyday Life

Trizzy Orozco

It’s almost unbelievable to think that the same kind of technology that once shocked the world by beating chess grandmasters now quietly powers the digital helpers in our pockets. Imagine, for a moment, the tension in the air when IBM’s Deep Blue stunned Garry Kasparov in 1997. The world watched, jaws dropped, as a computer ...

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How Sci-Fi Got AI Right — and What It Got Wildly Wrong

Maria Faith Saligumba

Imagine a world where machines dream, reason, and rebel—sometimes saving humanity, sometimes threatening its very existence. Sci-fi has painted this world for decades, thrilling us with tales of artificial intelligence that feel both tantalizingly close and oddly alien. But as AI leaps from the pages and screens into our everyday lives, a striking question emerges: ...

The AI That Wrote a Love Letter to a Toaster

The AI That Wrote a Love Letter to a Toaster

Annette Uy

A machine falling in love with a kitchen appliance—sounds absurd, right? But in a world where artificial intelligence surprises us every day, who’s to say what’s impossible? Picture this: an AI, humming with code and neural networks, pauses from its complex calculations to pen a heartfelt letter to a humble toaster. The lines between logic ...

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Should AI Have Rights? Exploring the Legal and Philosophical Frontier

Trizzy Orozco

Imagine waking up tomorrow to a world where machines not only think and feel but also demand the rights we reserve for ourselves. Would that fill you with hope, fear, or curiosity? As artificial intelligence surges into realms once reserved for human minds, the question of granting rights to AI is no longer the stuff ...

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Can Machines Be Creative? What AI-Generated Art Says About Consciousness

Trizzy Orozco

What if the next great masterpiece isn’t painted by a human hand, but generated by a line of code? Imagine gazing at a mesmerizing work of art, only to discover it was crafted not by an artist’s imagination, but by an artificial intelligence. In the past decade, the world has watched in awe—and sometimes disbelief—as ...

How ChatGPT May Endanger Critical Thinking

How ChatGPT May Endanger Critical Thinking

Gargi Chakravorty

You’ve probably noticed it by now. That little voice in your head that whispers, “Why bother this through when AI can do it for you?” Maybe you’ve caught yourself reaching for ChatGPT before even trying to work through a problem. It’s convenient, sure. Maybe too convenient. Let me be real with you: there’s something happening ...

Real-World AI: Where Sci-Fi Got It Shockingly Right

Can an Algorithm Be Racist? A Look at AI Bias in the Real World

Trizzy Orozco

Imagine a world where your job application is rejected, not because of your skills, but because an invisible program silently judged you based on your name or ZIP code. This isn’t a plot from a dystopian novel—it’s happening right now, behind the screens of banks, hospitals, and even police departments. The idea that an algorithm—a ...