They Say the New Delivery Service Is a Robot…
But of course there is a human (many, possibly) in the loopWhy do some PR agencies think it is so important that we forget the fellow human beings who help us, using robotic devices?
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How Far Has AI Mindreading Come?
Further than we may think. And some trends are troubling
Whistleblower: Google Told Cops To Do a “Wellness Check” on Him
He can be seen doing a sort of perp walk on the video; some portions transcribed hereIn the documents Vorhies unearthed, Google seemed to be "intending to scope the information landscape so that they could create their own version of what was objectively true."
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Is Google a Cult? Or Does It Just Act That Way?
Project Veritas announces that a new rebel Googler has sent nearly 1000 documents on algorithm bias to the DOJWhile we prepare a news story on Zach Vorhies' revelations, it may be worth asking why one of the world’s largest companies has developed what appears to be the atmosphere of a political cult.
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The Paradox of Luck and Skill
Why did Shane Lowry win the British Open golf championship? Because someone had toIn any competition including academic tests, athletic events, and company management where there is an element of luck that causes performances to be an imperfect measure of ability, there is an important difference between competitions among people with high ability and competitions among people of lesser ability.
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New AI Can Create—and Detect—Fake News
But how good is it at either task? We tested some copyWill the predicted tsunami of fake news and advertising make much difference? Possibly, but in ways that might surprise you.
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Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene: How to Spell Gud
Also, Google and Apple ditching college degree requirements is not really that newTwenty years or so ago, when I worked in Seattle, Microsoft was famous for the testing coding skills of their applicants and asking Mensa-like questions. Degrees were secondary.
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Could Huge Chunks of Asteroid Gold Wreck Our Economy?
16 Psyche’s gold illustrates how AI affects jobs. Not the way many think…“By lowering the price of gold, it would create new, currently nonexistent, markets for other uses of gold,” says Jay Richards. In the same way, AI creates new, currently nonexistent, markets for human time and creativity.
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In Defense of the Gig Economy…
Jay Richards: It’s misunderstood! Weekly salary is only one measure of value today“Experts” should not be confident that they understand the value propositions of gig jobs better than the individuals doing the gigs.
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Students, Don’t Let Smart Machines Disrupt Your Future
Three ways you can avoid life in Mom’s basement and the job pouring coffeeAt first sight, the number of options might seem bewildering. The key question is: Will you ignore the coming job disruption, fear it, or treat it as an opportunity?
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George Gilder: Cloud Computing Is Reaching Its Limits
The “cloud” isn’t something ethereal “up there,” Gilder reminds us; it is giant factory floors of computersGilder, tech philosopher and author of Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, argues that the regime of huge data centers, all parked by bodies of water, is coming to an end.
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Facebook Moderators Are Not Who We Think
Companies offer terrible working conditions partly because they think AI will just take over soonAnd if that doesn’t—and perhaps can’t—happen, what’s the backup plan? Lawsuits?
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Does Workplace Automation Improve Service or Merely Cut Costs?
Chances are, the CEO won’t know there’s a problem until complaints come in. Elon Musk didn’t
Sorry, Wired: That “Crafty Robot” Doesn’t Write in Languages It’s Never Seen
The artificial intelligence industry is overwhelmed with title inflation and feat hype
Philosopher: Gloom and doom over AI is “silly”
Jay Richards thinks that historian Yuval Noah Harari is wrong to think that AI will necessarily subvert democracyThe idea that machines are capable of replacing us is the topic of many books he has read but, he argues, the thing that really distinguishes us is the capacity for developing creative freedom.
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Yes, There ARE Ghosts in the Machine
And one of them is you
University Fires Philosophy Prof, Hires Chimpanzee to Teach, Research
A light-hearted look at what would happen if we really thought that unreason is better than reasonDissociated Press – According to sources from the Funny Papers News Collective, officials at the Université Paris Diderot announced today that philosophy professor Justin Smith has been dismissed from his teaching and research duties at the university, following publication of his new book, Irrationality. In the widely acclaimed book, Smith argues forcefully that reason is highly overrated, and generally of less survival value than brute animal instinct. Citing 16th-century diplomat Girolamo Rorario in his treatise “That Brute Animals Make Better use of Reason than Men”, Smith argues: [H]uman deliberation – the period of hesitancy when we survey our various options and eventually select what appears to be the best of them – far from being an advantage over other beings,…
Swarm Printing: Are AI Robots Tomorrow’s Construction Workers?
Robotic swarms specially adapted to operate in austere environments could be useful responses to natural and manmade disastersWhile many traditional construction jobs will be lost, others will be created. Someone will need to design, build, service, and repair the robots.
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Google’s “Civil War” Is a First For the Big Tech Industry
Not the sort of first to rejoice market analysts’ heartsIf a recent longform article at Fortune is any guide, tech philosopher George Gilder was onto something when he told Steve Forbes recently that the whole Google culture is “kind of self-defeating and wrong.”
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What One Thing Do AI, Evolution, and Entrepreneurship All Need?
They all need an input of creativity to make things happen.Programs for AI and evolution share the limitation that nothing creative happens without the guidance of a programmer. And a thriving economy based on creative entrepreneurship is one of the things that cannot be automated.
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