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Some tough questions about ChatGPT and GenerativeAI. Short video by Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard from Futurist Gerd Leonhard on Vimeo.

A summary of my key questions in regards to #chatgpt Are these models capable of #foresight ? Can they generate NEW KNOWLEDGE? How would they ever be able to discern true or false?

Correct or not (below) ?

“In the end, ChatGPT’s bullshit is a reminder that language is a poor substitute for thought and understanding. …And in a world where everything is fluent bullshit, ChatGPT is just one more voice in the cacophony”. Amit Katwala, Wired.com, Dec 9 2022 -----

This is an excerpt from my recent live-stream show on this topic, see youtu.be/gRgXC-tt0S0 and vimeo.com/storiesfromthefutur... on Vimeo (for downloading, too:)

Watch my new film TWICE UPON A TIME: youtu.be/BanqTNbTotU Watch my 2021 film: The Good Future thegoodfuturefilm.com or youtu.be/yHC5n7G5SeI

#chatgpt #generativeai #techvshuman #futurist

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many of the technologies and practices that solarpunks draw into their imaginings already exist: solar and other renewable energy, urban agriculture, or organic architecture and design. Like sci-fi authors, solarpunks remix the present to produce an alternative future. SOLARPUNK WRITING CONTEST currently accepting submissions *Short stories (up to 5,000 words) & artwork *No contest entrance fee! *Stories will be read on the "Stories from the Future" podcast. *Stories will be included in our next anthology. www.StoriesfromtheFuture.co May the Future be with You!

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This sci-fi podcast exists to give you a voice and a place to have your "Stories from the Future" be heard & find an audience!

POSITIVE FUTURISM WRITING CONTEST TODAY'S FEATURED STORY The Eden Syndrome by Thomas Tortorich (you may also read it on vocal.media)

Can you imagine seeing the Green Earth from a space elevator 20,000 miles above the Earth? The "Armstrong Orbiter" has opened the final frontier to the public, and the view is breathtaking. Flocks of migrating birds and shoals of marine life are so sweeping in scope they shadow Earth’s oceans like clouds. The Cambrian Effect, as it had come to be known, was the heavy re-population of Earth’s species during the environmental cleanup of the 21st century.

The Eden Syndrome imagines the "Global Change Movement" taking root in our lifetimes.

PATREON

We'd like to ask you to visit us on Patreon because your support will make cash prizes for the writing contest possible.

Until next time, May the Future be with You!

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"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." ~Victor Hugo

Before I had heard of the Solarpunk movement or even the term for it, I was thinking about what I called "Positive Futurism." To me, that says the idea of a better future is out there, in the collective consciousness.

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Creating "Positive Futurism" is a lot like playing chess. 

All of the pieces have to work together:

♜ The Podcast invites you to submit to

♞ The writing contest

♝ Awaiting submissions, I read excerpts from my novel  "The Eden Syndrome"

♟︎ That ties into promotion on social media 

♟︎ And an ask for support on Patreon

♔ I sincerely hope you will consider submitting a story, or supporting Positive Futurism and helping the world to imagine a better future. 

♕     Tag. ( I mean  ✓ ) We're it!

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Evolution of a Species

"The changes we need will not come through diplomacy or politics. But they will come. An inexorable evolution towards a society founded on equality has already begun. We are struggling to reach a new enlightenment. It might take generations, or centuries, but we will get there."

The troubles of the world cloud our vision of the progress we are making, such as the hijacking of democracy and, dare I say it, capitalism, too, has been hijaked. Capitalism is more and more a "bad word" these days. It is inevitable that capitalism will end, as everything ends.

Two-hundred years ago, capitalism began when merchants rose up against the oppression of the aristocracy, just as we are now rising up against the oppression of the capitalists.

It is never the system itself that oppresses us, but people who take it over with greed in their hearts. What comes next? The next wave is part revolution, part renaissance, part evolution. We inch ever forward to a society founded on equality, wisdom and wise leadership. Slowly, at a snails pace. A pace, perhaps, beyond our ability to perceive the progress sometimes.

Slowly, we move ahead. Let's not let the setbacks dominate our worldview.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! What's this Podcast about? ~An art & writing contest. ~Imagining a Positive Future. Who's the audience? ~The growing Solarpunk community ~Artists & writers of all ages to imagine a positive future Future episodes will highlight the stories we receive by reading excerpts on the podcast.

HAPPY EARTHDAY FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE!

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