CategoryMachine Learning
Did AI show that we are “a peaceful species” triggered by religion?
No, but this episode shows how science media sometimes help mislead the publicUnfortunately, 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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A chilling snippet from mass surveillance in China
China is helping other countries restrict their citizens’ internet, while shunning the U.S.
Life after Google: More private and more profitable?
Reviewing Gilder’s Life after Google, Ralph Benko asks, If our attention is worth billions, shouldn’t we market it?
Too late to prevent being ruled by The Algorithm?
Dilbert’s creator, Scott Adams, tells Ben Shapiro why he thinks politicians soon won't matter
Who assumes moral responsibility for self-driving cars?
Can we discuss this before something happens and everyone is outsourcing the blame?
Self-driving vehicles are just around the corner
On the other side of a vast chasm…
Could AI write novels?
George Orwell thought so, as long as no thinking was involved
How Do Bitcoins Work Anyway?
And what's their future? A roundup for non-geeksEverywhere these days one hears people foretelling the fortunes of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin—like so many fairies, good and bad, wishing around a cradle. Most people, including New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten, have hoped to just avoid the scene, partly because few enthusiasts can even explain what the cryptocurrencies are or why they exist. But Paumgarten dove in and his recent long form article offers helpful explanations along with illuminating profiles of digital currency pioneers. First, why? Bitcoin and Ethereum enthusiasts want, in Paumgarten’s words, “a better, decentralized version of the World Wide Web—a Web 3.0—more in keeping with the Internet’s early utopian promise than with the invidious, monopolistic hellscape it has become. They want to seize back the tubes, and Read More ›
Guess what? You already own a self-driving car
Tech hype hits the stratosphere
Would Google be happier if America were run more like China?
This might be a good time to ask
Facebook’s old motto was “Move fast and break things”
With the current advertising scandal, it might be breaking itself
AI computer chips made simple
The artificial intelligence chips that run your computer are not especially difficult to understand
Hacks damage Facebook, kill Google+
The internet changes everything. For example, it makes the Big Guys more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, than bit players
Did AI teach itself to “not like” women?
No, the program did not teach itself anything. But the situation taught the company something important about what we can safely automate.Back in 2014, it was a “holy grail” machine learning program, developed in Scotland, that would sift through online resumes, using a one-to-five star rating system and cull the top five of 100, saving time and money. Within a year, a problem surfaced: It was “not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way.”
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I, Robot, am gathering dust in the sales room …
Why do robotics experts think that customers will warm to robots because they look like people?
Google boss quits, writes satirical novel
The novel is said to be so far-fetched that it captures the environment
Remember those awful Seventies TV ads?
The new “attention economy” killed that kind of advertising. But what now?
People-friendly robots company shuts down
The “cobots,” robots that can work with people, got the pink slip—for now