Tag: ai
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What are chatbots doing to our children? | From my Perspective
Next time you pick up your kids from school, count how many kids don’t have smartphones. Students have phones at younger and younger ages and use them around the clock. Is reading a book at bedtime a thing of the past because kids are scrolling on their phones instead? If you ask parents what rules…
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What are chatbots doing to our children? | From my Perspective
Next time you pick up your kids from school, count how many kids don’t have smartphones. Students have phones at younger and younger ages and use them around the clock. Is reading a book at bedtime a thing of the past because kids are scrolling on their phones instead? If you ask parents what rules…
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Large data center may be heading to former computer chip facility in Colorado Springs
A California real estate and tech firm is planning to build a data center along Garden of the Gods Road in Colorado Springs. Oakland, Calif., based Raeden has been working with the city for well over a year on the project, said Jason Green, the founder of Raeden. The data center will be constructed inside…
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El Paso County schools advancing teaching, learning with AI
As AI becomes increasingly prevalent in everyday life, school districts across the Pikes Peak region have taken steps to utilize it as a learning tool or regulate its use within the past few years. Harrison District 2, Widefield D-3, Fountain-Fort Carson D-8, Colorado Springs D-11, Academy D-20, Lewis-Palmer D-38 and School District 49 have launched…
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AI in the exam room: blending technology with the human touch
As artificial intelligence has become more ubiquitous in everyday life — from a typical smartphone’s autocorrect function to chatbots that can simulate conversations with humans, quickly analyze data sets and more — it’s also changing how medical professionals and organizations provide health care, and the patient experience along with it. Today, medical practitioners are using…
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Leadership in the age of artificial intelligence | Tom Cronin
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a feature story asking about when and if AI humanoid robots will be able to be chief executives and manage companies. AI evangelists Sam Altman of Open AI and Elon Musk of Tesla and xAI say AI robots already do remarkable engineering and logistical activities, and we can expect…
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EDITORIAL: A presidential reprieve from Colorado’s bungled AI law
Our Democratic governor is in synch with our Republican president on at least one issue: the regulation of artificial intelligence. Both agree any guardrails on development and use of AI technology ideally should come from Washington — rather than be imposed haphazardly though a regulatory patchwork woven state by state. So, Jared Polis has Donald…
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EDITORIAL: Hurdles to AI will cost Colorado
No sooner had Colorado’s legislature punted on AI, yet again, during this summer’s special session — than a Homer Simpson-worthy “Doh!” might as well have pealed out across the state. It would have been an acknowledgment lawmakers had blown it, for the time being, in making Colorado a more welcoming destination for the development of…
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Colorado justices decide pre-2025 law did not criminalize AI-generated child porn
Colorado law prior to 2025 did not criminalize, as a means of sexually exploiting a child, the use of artificial intelligence to generate nude images depicting real children, the state Supreme Court concluded on Monday. The legislature acted this year to clearly establish a crime for someone to have or share fake, yet “highly realistic,”…
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An obligation to use AI? Federal judge addresses lawyers on responsible technology use
U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell addressed a group of Colorado attorneys on Friday with the message that they should be practicing and understanding how to use artificial intelligence because it is encroaching on more and more aspects of society. “There was a time when you had to be rich to have a cell phone,”…