Category: Technology
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AI and ethics: questions that define us
🤔 ´Cogito, ergo sum’ (I think, therefore I am), said by Descartes almost 400 years ago, suddenly seems very relevant when defining what makes us human in relation to AI. As bewildering as anthropomorphised AI assistance may seem, AI doesn’t think. It’s not human. AI generates systematic answers (and questions) based on the wealth of…
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Growing #WomenInTech – from seed to tree
Clusity, founded in 2021 by Elke Kraemer and Rein Meirte, empowers women in tech through networking and support. Their initiative arose from a desire to enhance workplace inclusion for women. They aim to increase the number of women in tech in Belgium by 47,000 by 2030. Clusity emphasizes diverse representation and creating favorable environments for…
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AI, the new digital divide
Since ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney and other AI tools entered our homes, we have entertained ourselves with polishing our writing, generating new ideas or creating images. AI has had us both fascinated and frightened, captured and overwhelmed. Some say that AI poses a threat to humanity. Others claim it’s imminent: AI will extinguish humanity. I sat…
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Gen-Z ‘YouTube’ and records vs. Gen-X ‘Google’ and writes
Over the holidays, I sat down with my niece and nephew, 14 and 16 years old, to better understand how they, as Gen-Z, use technology and communicate. When I became an aunt, l promised myself to always try to keep up with the technology they use, and they promised to warn me, if l ever…
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Stretch Your Mind and Become Tech Fit
Creativity and tech savviness is not something you are born with, not even web-natives. Anyone can develop their creative muscle. A while ago I read Philip Weiss’s book HyperThinker, Philip reminds about how a daily routine of brain games and problem solving, reading books, watching educational videos or listening to podcasts can stretch your mind.…
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How to Unblock Writer’s Block
For the last six months I haven’t written anything. During this thrilling, terrifying, exciting and nerve-wrecking journey I haven’t read any thought-provoking books nor have l listened to any mind-blowing podcasts or engaged in heated debates about inequality and injustice (as I used to). So I simply no longer knew what to write about. I…
Annica Ryng 