It's a sticky wicket that raises ethical questions with broader implications -- maybe a dumb chat bot isn't a huge deal, but when we start talking about software that can similarly ingest data to interact with humans and sway their votes, for example, we've got bigger problems.
This exponential rate of growth has implications that maybe we've been loathe to accept but will have the greatest effect on the most vulnerable.
"[The findings] do not have immediate therapeutic implications, but maybe down the line therapies will be developed based on such findings," says Henry Chambers, an infectious disease physician at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
Morton Feldman, another avant-garde musician with an eye for the wider artistic landscape, once said, "John Cage was the first composer in the history of music who raised the question by implication that maybe music could be an art form rather than a music form".
Cage, according to his fellow avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, was the first composer in the history of music "who raised the question by implication that maybe music could be an art form rather than a music form".
"What were you wearing?" It's a question people ask survivors of sexual violence all too often; a question wrought with victim-blaming and an implication that, maybe, the survivor could've prevented their assault if they had worn something less revealing, less sexy. .
He did not have to say so, but the implication was that maybe a century, maybe a millennium from now, the names of new planets, stars and galaxies might be Chinese.
Maybe the implications haven't sunk in.
Maybe by implication, education is the second most important.
