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Technology Vs Humanity: Forbes intervista Gerd Leonhard. Nice Italian translation of my themes

“Tecnologia Vs Umanità: cosa ci aspetterà in futuro?

Dici che l'umanità cambierà più nei prossimi 20 anni rispetto ai 300 anni precedenti. Perché pensi che questo sia vero quando la maggior parte dei progressi tecnologici sembrano aver avuto poco a che fare con gli umani, piuttosto che l'effetto o i problemi che hanno creato agli umani stessi?

La tecnologia viene sempre creata dagli umani e a sua volta ridefinisce ciò che possiamo fare e che faremo. Ogni singolo cambiamento tecnologico ora sta impattando l'umanità in un modo più profondo rispetto al passato perché, presto, la tecnologia impatterà la nostra biologia, principalmente attraverso l'ascesa dell'editing del genoma e dell'intelligenza artificiale.”

Technology Vs Humanity: Forbes intervista Gerd Leonhard
https://www.controcorrenteblog.com/2016/09/technology-vs-humanity-forbes-intervista-gerd-leonhard.html
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Interesting Infographic: Digital Assistants are coming!

“According to market research firm Tractica, the use of virtual digital assistants (VDAs) is going to increase sharply over the next few years. As our chart illustrates, the number of people using digital assistants is projected to increase from 504 million this year to 1.8 billion by 2021. While intelligent voice-recognition technology is currently most commonly known from smartphone-based assistants such as Siri and Google Now, Tractica expects similar solutions to be used in many more devices going forward.”

Infographic: Digital Assistants - Always at Your Service
https://www.statista.com/chart/5621/users-of-virtual-digital-assistants/
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Insightful Max Planck and Peter Guber quotes

Consciousness is fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."

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Machines of Loving Grace. Interview with John Markoff. Good read !

“John Markoff: Ben Shneiderman, the University of Maryland computer scientist and user interface designer has written eloquently on this point. Indeed he argues against autonomous systems for precisely this reason. His point is that it is essential to keep a human in the loop. If not you run the risk of abdicating ethical responsibility for system design.”

Machines of Loving Grace. Interview with John Markoff. | ODBMS Industry Watch
https://www.odbms.org/blog/2016/08/machines-of-loving-grace-interview-with-john-markoff/
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Of prediction and policy, via The Economist

“Machine-learning systems excel at prediction. A common approach is to train a system by showing it a vast quantity of data on, say, students and their achievements. The software chews through the examples and learns which characteristics are most helpful in predicting whether a student will drop out. Once trained, it can study a different group and accurately pick those at risk. By helping to allocate scarce public funds more accurately, machine learning could save governments significant sums. According to Stephen Goldsmith, a professor at Harvard and a former mayor of Indianapolis, it could also transform almost every sector of public policy.”

Of prediction and policy
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21705329-governments-have-much-gain-applying-algorithms-public-policy
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