CategoryMachine Learning
You Have Just Six Emotions
At least it would be easier for the machines if we did
Is the future of jobs over?
Should people be paid to let machines do the work?
The true cost of “free” social media
It’s free but… are we? George Gilder points a way forward.
Senior Google scientist quits over Google’s censorship in China
He believes it “contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights”Some believe that any censorship system that a human being can develop can somehow be got around by another human being. China may provide a way of testing that.
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Are social media companies violating anti-trust laws?
DOJ to investigate
How Bitcoin Works: The social value of trust
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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Twitter doesn’t just seem out of control
It actually is.
Can simple probabilities outperform deep learning?
One musician found it was so
Google branches out into politics
Unfortunately, the only political model it would likely know is: One-party stateThe unchallenged manipulation of search engine results during elections is a new phenomenon made possible by the domination of the internet by a few big players.
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How do robots “care”?
Emotional robots’ cameras and sensors respond to your facial expressions, tone of voice, and movementsCritics of the emotional robotics industry say that the view of emotions (assumed in the industry to be only six) is oversimplified and that the robots are likely to promote stereotypes.
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Can machines really learn?
A parable of a book that learned
What is Learning Anyway?
Machine learning specialist George Montañez reflects on the question in a video excerpt from the CNAI gala
“Artificial” Artificial Intelligence
What happens when AI needs a human I?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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Slaughterbots: How far is too far?
And how will we know if we have crossed a line?
Karl Marx’s Eerie AI Prediction
He felt that capitalism would fall when machines replaced human labor
Imagining Life after Google
Reviewers of George Gilder's new book weigh inIf we have simply taken the big software, hardware, and social media companies who dominate our lives for granted, the reactions from the business world to Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy should give us a lot to think about.
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Robogeddon!! Pause.
Wait. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobs
Ethics for an Information Society
Because machines can’t learn to solve their own ethical problems