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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 19, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Advertising, Algorithms, Google, Google Search, search engines}

Google Search: Its Secret of Success Revealed

_{The secret is not the Big Data pile. No, Google found a way to harness YOUR wants and needs} _{Jonathan Bartlett
December 19, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Google is one of the most widely misunderstood success stories of our time. Many of us equate Google with “Big Data,” that is, amassing huge quantities of data and then finding useful statistical patterns. But is that how it succeeded? In Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, George Gilder criticizes Google primarily on two fronts: First, it is a “walled garden,” a great platform, but inherently isolated and closed. That is a point worth exploring, but not the focus here. The second point, the one I want to touch on, is that Big Data’s day has come and gone. Because Google is a Big Data company, its brightest days are behind it. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 17, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Work

Tagged
Automation, Automation failure, Automation planning, Business Intelligence, Elon Musk, Featured, Longform, Machine Learning}

Be Choosy About What You Automate!

_{Having automated many processes, I can assure you that that is the First Rule of Automation} _{Jonathan Bartlett
December 17, 2018

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Machine Learning, Work}

The worst trap that people who are pursuing automation fall into is the desire to automate everything. That’s usually a road to disaster. Automation is supposed to save time and money, but it can wind up costing you both if you don't carefully consider what you automate. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 3, 2018

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Mind Uploading, Nectome, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Social Factors, Technocracy, uploading consciousness}

AI and the Future of Murder

_{If I kill you but upload your mind into an android, did I murder you or just modify you?} _{Jonathan Bartlett
December 3, 2018

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Ethics}

The sci-fi TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013– ) tackled this question in an episode titled “Self Control”. Scientist Holden Radcliffe has an android assistant appropriately named Aida (Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant). Together, they build a virtual world that people could be plugged into and uploaded into, called The Framework. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
November 12, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Algorithms}

Who Needs Wisdom? We’ve Got Algorithms!

_{On a decision about a TV series, the Algorithm offered a narrow view (ratings) while Hollywood offered a “big picture” view. Who was right?} _{Jonathan Bartlett
November 12, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

While we are seeing some pushback against the movement to “algorithmicize” everything, few lay out explicitly the limitations as well as the benefits of the algorithms increasingly used to make decisions. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
November 5, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Social Factors

Tagged
computer models, religion, science media, violence}

Did AI show that we are “a peaceful species” triggered by religion?

_{No, but this episode shows how science media sometimes help mislead the public} _{Jonathan Bartlett
November 5, 2018

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Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Social Factors}

Unfortunately, most of the public knows about science only through science media professionals. And it is apparent that science media professionals often know little to nothing of what they are talking about.

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 26, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, liability, Moral Responsibility, self-driving cars}

Who assumes moral responsibility for self-driving cars?

_{Can we discuss this before something happens and everyone is outsourcing the blame?} _{Jonathan Bartlett
October 26, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Level 4 self-driving vehicles will bring with them a giant shift in the moral equation of driving. Unfortunately, in a culture that seems to think that the future will take care of itself, little thoughtful public discussion is taking place. My hope is to start a discussion of how coming technological changes will affect the future moral landscape. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 24, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, self-driving cars}

Self-driving vehicles are just around the corner

_{On the other side of a vast chasm…} _{Jonathan Bartlett
October 24, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Many cheerleaders have wrongly assumed that the progress from one level of automation to another should be a direct, linear process but it clearly isn’t. Rather, the transition from Level 4 to Level 5 automation is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult than all the other levels combined. Its completion should not be taken as a foregone conclusion. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 22, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, self-driving cars}

Guess what? You already own a self-driving car

_{Tech hype hits the stratosphere} _{Jonathan Bartlett
October 22, 2018

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Machine Learning}

Yes, the car you own today is probably “self-driving” and you may not know it. But that is because of the creative ways the term can be defined. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 17, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
computer}

AI computer chips made simple

_{The artificial intelligence chips that run your computer are not especially difficult to understand} _{Jonathan Bartlett
October 17, 2018

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Machine Learning}

Increasingly, companies are integrating“AI chips” into their hardware products. What are these things, what do they do that is so special, and how are they being used? Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 11, 2018

Categorized
Events, Natural Intelligence, Social Factors

Tagged
Slack, software design, spirituality}

The Spiritual Side of a Digital Society

_{Spiritual issues surface when software is everywhere} _{Jonathan Bartlett
October 11, 2018

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Events, Natural Intelligence, Social Factors}

The more that software encompasses the whole of life, the more it needs to take into account the whole of the person using it. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 4, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Facebook, Instagram, search engines, training data}

Who built AI? You did, mostly

_{Along with millions of others, you are providing free training data} _{Jonathan Bartlett
October 4, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

For AI to work you need data. The most innovative players in the AI space have learned how to get users to willingly and gladly provide them with data for free. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 2, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Machine Learning

Tagged
liability, Moral Responsibility}

When machine learning results in mishap

_{The machine isn’t responsible but who IS? That gets tricky} _{Jonathan Bartlett
October 2, 2018

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Ethics, Machine Learning}

We should require model interpretability for any machine learning model for which moral responsibility plays a significant role. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
September 13, 2018

Categorized
Business and Finance, Ethics, Machine Learning

Tagged
bitcoin, trust}

How Bitcoin Works: The social value of trust

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September 13, 2018

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Business and Finance, Ethics, Machine Learning}

The idea of employing such a game to guarantee validity in a trustless environment is nothing short of groundbreaking. It is an amazing accomplishment, and I am impressed by it more each time I think about it. However, it does have some drawbacks, which, I think, will ultimately lead to its demise.

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
September 6, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Artificial Artificial Intelligence (AAI), automatons}

“Artificial” Artificial Intelligence

_{What happens when AI needs a human I?} _{Jonathan Bartlett
September 6, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Artificial intelligence often fails at crucial points. It must then be supplemented by human intelligence. Many software systems that look to their users like pure advanced artificial intelligence hide a lot of human effort behind a technological mask.

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
August 13, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Information Theory, stock market}

Who Creates Information in a Market?

_{Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs)' algorithms make personally gathering information obsolete?} _{Jonathan Bartlett
August 13, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Algorithmic strategies can only be as good as the information that goes into them. Ignoring how the information is created causes us to misunderstand the dynamics of value creation. Algorithms can leverage information, they can’t create it.

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
August 3, 2018

Categorized
Applied Intelligence, Social Factors

Tagged
bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, passwords}

Is Bitcoin Safe?

_{Why the human side of security is critical} _{Jonathan Bartlett
August 3, 2018

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Applied Intelligence, Social Factors}

Bitcoin solves a lot of tough problems in very ingenious ways. Unfortunately, however, those benefits don’t tend to translate well for end users, who are not nearly as ingenious as the people developing the system.