Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum

Eliza Strickland

IEEE Spectrum

New York, NY, United States

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  • Nautilus
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Past articles by Eliza:

Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Around the world, legislators are grappling with generative AI's potential for both innovation and destruction → Read More

Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now

Questioning the answers at the intersection of Big Data and Big Doctor → Read More

The AI Apocalypse: A Scorecard

How worried are top AI experts about the threat posed by large language models like GPT-4? → Read More

The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI

Jurisdictions joust over toxic chatbots; policymakers ponder existential risks → Read More

Rerouting Intention And Sensation In Paralyzed Patients

Neuroscientist Chad Bouton is developing technology to decode and encode nerve signals → Read More

Better Carbon Sequestration With AI

Microsoft Research's Philip Witte is using machine learning to find the best places to store CO2 → Read More

Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

Extracting and using brain data will make workers happier and more productive, backers say → Read More

With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again

Richard Costanzo stands beside a mannequin head sporting spectacles decked with electronics and holds a vial of blue liquid up to a tiny sensor. An LED glows blue, and Costanzo’s phone displays the word “Windex.” → Read More

6 Reactions to the White House’s AI Bill of Rights

Last week, the White House put forth its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. It's a non-binding framework for the rights that we old-fashioned human beings should have in relationship to AI systems. The White House's move is part of a global push to establish regulations to govern AI. → Read More

DALL-E 2's Failures Are the Most Interesting Thing About It

​OpenAI’s text-to-image generator struggles with text, science, faces, and bias → Read More

DALL-E 2's Failures Are the Most Interesting Thing About It

​OpenAI’s text-to-image generator struggles with text, science, faces, and bias → Read More

Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward

Meta researchers believe that self-supervised learning is a necessary prerequisite for AI systems that can build “world models” and can therefore begin to gain human-like faculties such as reason, common sense, and the ability to transfer skills and knowledge from one context to another. → Read More

Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward

Meta researchers believe that self-supervised learning is a necessary prerequisite for AI systems that can build “world models” and can therefore begin to gain human-like faculties such as reason, common sense, and the ability to transfer skills and knowledge from one context to another. → Read More

World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible. → Read More

World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible. → Read More

AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

IEEE Spectrum spoke to Kai-Fu Lee about his book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, focusing on the last few chapters that take on the big issues of job displacement, the need for new economic models, and the search for meaning and happiness in an age of abundance. → Read More

AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

IEEE Spectrum spoke to Kai-Fu Lee about his book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, focusing on the last few chapters that take on the big issues of job displacement, the need for new economic models, and the search for meaning and happiness in an age of abundance. → Read More

Meta’s Challenge to OpenAI—Give Away a Massive Language Model

Meta is giving away some of the family jewels: That’s the gist of an announcement from Facebook's parent company. Now the company’s researchers announced that they’ve created a powerful language AI system and are making it freely available to all researchers in the AI community. → Read More

Meta’s Challenge to OpenAI—Give Away a Massive Language Model

Meta is giving away some of the family jewels: That’s the gist of an announcement from Facebook's parent company. Now the company’s researchers announced that they’ve created a powerful language AI system and are making it freely available to all researchers in the AI community. → Read More

Should Right-to-Repair Laws Extend to Bionic Body Parts?

When IEEE Spectrum published an article in February about blind people whose bionic vision systems had become obsolete and unsupported, it generated both attention and outrage. So can such a troubling episode happen again? And how could users of these devices be better prepared if it did? → Read More