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Blake Dowling: Turn it off and become the human firewall for Internet scams

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Blake Dowling: Turn it off and become the human firewall for Internet scams

This summer, HCA Healthcare was hacked; 11 million patients were potentially affected. HCA is all over Florida including HCA Healthcare, Capital Hospital in Tallahassee. I hear their IT team is deep with state of the art cyber protections. Typically, I reach out and get their input if I write about them. Instead, I’ll leave them … Read more

Uncharted Territory: Do AI Girlfriend Apps Promote Unhealthy Expectations For Human Relationships?

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A screengrab from the Replika app.

Control it how you want, reads the slogan of AI girlfriend app Eva AI. Connect with a virtual AI partner who listens, responds, and appreciates you. A decade since Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his AI partner Samantha, played by Scarlett Johansson in Spike Jonze’s film Her, the proliferation of large language models has … Read more