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If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Thomas Nagel's essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" unfortunately does not endeavor to answer its titular question. But Nagel is not even interested in questions of batness. His project is to interrogate "the mind–body problem," the struggle in philosophy or psychology to reduce the mind and consciousness to objective, physical terms. But around the edges of Nagel's project, like tasty crumbs, we can grab at some useful ideas for imagining minds even stranger than bats: the minds of intelligent aliens.

The war in Ukraine, now into its 14th grueling month, has displaced millions, sparked global food shortages, and threatened to spiral into wider conflict. It has also highlighted how new technologies--especially ones drawn from the commercial sector--are upending conventional military doctrine. Ukraine has resisted and repelled Russia's much larger military force, thanks in large part to a willingness, borne of necessity, to adopt and experiment with novel technologies, not all of them originally designed for military use. I recently spoke with Ukraine's 32-year-old minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, about the country's interest in tapping new technology to boost the war effort. Fedorov spoke over Zoom, via an interpreter, from an undisclosed location in Ukraine, about plans to produce more sophisticated drones and other autonomous systems, and to incubate military startups.

The members of the overemployed community know that what they're doing is frowned on by corporate leaders. But that doesn't mean they think what they are doing is amoral. "I never could mentally comprehend why it was so taboo for me to work two salaried positions," said the Ohio-based technology worker. "There's plenty of people I've known in my personal life who have worked at Walmart from 4 a.m. to 2 p.m., and then gone and worked another job." The financial professional similarly said he started working multiple jobs because he doesn't trust that working as hard as he can at a single job will be "rewarded with more pay," just "more work." By taking on more jobs, he can do more work but also "get paid for it," he said.

ChatGPT is a new AI tool that can tell stories and write code. It has the potential to take over certain roles traditionally held by humans, such as copywriting, answering customer service inquiries, writing news reports, and creating legal documents. As AI continues to improve, more and more current jobs will be threatened by automation. But AI presents opportunities as well and will create new jobs and different kinds of organizations. The question isn't whether AI will be good enough to take on more cognitive tasks but rather how we'll adjust.

Thiel's criticism appears to refer to Google's 2018 decision not to renew its contract with the Department of Defense, which allowed the agency to review drone footage with the company's artificial intelligence tools. The same year, Google faced backlash for working on "Dragonfly," a project to create a censored search engine for China. However, in December, CEO Sundar Pichai announced there were no plans to launch it.

With a record 7,000 store closings and 662 bankruptcy filings last year, and 3,800 closings (and counting) so far in 2018, the fate of retail continues to look uncertain. Take a look at Amazon to see how ecommerce has changed the retail landscape as we know it, leaving no industry undisrupted. With just a click of a mouse, customers can purchase whatever they want, whenever they want it -- and have it shipped directly to their door. Related: Here Are 6 Weird Ways You're Being Tracked in the Real World While ecommerce offers unprecedented convenience, this is not the end of the road for brick-and-mortar. Customers still value in-store experiences.

Robofly, designed by engineers from the University of Washington, can flap on its own, isn't tethered to any devices and powered by a laser beam. Slightly more substantial than a wooden toothpick, engineers from the University of Washington have created a robot insect that can fly untethered. Dubbed the RoboFly, the engineers gave the robotic flying insect a brain (a microcontroller) and offset the need for heavy electronics traditionally used to power miniature robotics by powering it with a laser beam. Engineers said that the biggest challenge to creating the free-flying robotic insect was to understand how to generate enough power for it to flap its wings. "Wing flapping is a power-hungry process, and both the power source and the controller that directs the wings are too big and bulky to ride aboard a tiny robot," said Sawyer Fuller, assistant professor, UW Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The year is 2035 and humanoid robots, powered by Artificial Intelligence, are part of everyday life. Detective Del Spooner hates robots because he was in a car accident and a robot pulled him to safety while leaving a 12-year-old girl to die – because the odds of her living were statistically lower than Detective Spooner's. That's a little background on the hero from the movie I, Robot, starring Will Smith. Eventually, these humanoids band together in a plot to take over the world. Is that the future of AI? Will the machine become so powerful that it begins to think to a point where it is more capable than the humans?

Glenn Gore, the chief architect of Amazon Web Services, feels the cloud has democratised tech, and businesses that invest in data will be creative and transformative. The Chief Architect of Amazon Web Services, Glenn Gore, is setting the foundation on which future generations will look back and say it all began with these technologies. An orchestrator of all the things software developers/ builders love about AWS, Glenn has been pushing the boundaries in this new world where there is a convergence of software and data crunching on a real-time basis. With the era of edge analytics dawning, AWS wants to prepare developers for a scenario where AI, IOT and analytics will transform industries. Glenn is in the thick of things, working towards that mission.