With misinformation and disinformation proliferating online, many may wish for a simple, reliable, automated “fake news” detection system to easily identify falsehoods from truths. Often with the help of machine learning, many scientists have developed such tools, but experts advise caution when deploying them.
Award-winning journalist Peter Nowak, author of Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species, will speak at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Monday, Sept. 23. The lecture is part of the 2019-2020 Community Read program at Rensselaer, a common reading experience that brings students, faculty, and staff of all disciplines together each year to discuss issues of global concern.
Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species by Peter Nowak has been selected as the 2019-2020 “Community Read” at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The book, chosen by a committee of representatives from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) and Student Life, explores how innovation and technology have impacted society and the human species.