Google’s rogue engineer and the AI he thinks is sentient
Google’s powerful LaMDA AI is capable of replicating human speech to levels which Lemoine claims prove its sentence, despite the many other experts who dispute the claim.
Not just sticks and stones in virtual reality
Sexual crimes are on the rise in VR worlds, and lawmakers are behind on navigating the issue.
Analysis
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Campus activism: understanding cross-faculty solidarity (or the lack of it)
STEM students are under-represented, unheard, and disillusioned with what is a massive part of campus life.
Comedy
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Science Road renamed to Arts Road in latest attack on STEM
Appeals to the University Senate are already being lodged.
News, University
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USyd STEM societies take actions to recognise gender diversity
“Giving non-cis men the confidence to enter these courses is really important”
News
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Yet more redundancies at Macquarie
17 out of 20 academics in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences will be made redundant.
Opinion
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The slow decline of Australian humanities
Examining the changing terrain of humanities funding.
Perspective
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When diversity is not enough
Women cannot lean into a world that is hostile towards them.
Analysis
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STEMing tokenism
Garnet Chan considers problems with the corporate world’s increasing interest in STEM students.