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If Something Is Going To Destroy Humanity, It’s Going To Be One Of These Catastrophes
“As new gene editing techniques such as CRISPR make it simpler and cheaper to change organisms, there's more of a risk of accidental release of...
04
May 2016
AI doctors will become ‘as ubiquitous as stethoscopes’ (Wired UK)
“The role of an AI doctor isn't intended to replace the human component, but rather complement it. "It's about augmenting or complementing; the role of...
02
May 2016
Welcome to the new feudalism – with Silicon Valley as our overlords | Evgeny Morozov
“Advertising might have been a necessary evil to get these companies off the ground, but there is no reason to stick with it for ever,...
01
May 2016
You Can’t Escape Data Surveillance In America (via The Atlantic)
“We peer into a future where our software spies on us, our data defines us, and our hardware reinforces existing power imbalances. What’s slowing it...
01
May 2016
Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI will start outperforming humans in the next decade
“Zuckerberg sees bots stepping in for customer service reps and personal assistants. "One way that I think you're going to see bots work, between people...
29
Apr 2016
The Threats That Artificial Intelligence Researchers Actually Worry About – good read
“A.I. safety researchers strongly disagree: There is no reason to believe that we will be able to control generally intelligent, let alone superintelligent, systems. In...
29
Apr 2016
The Philosophical Argument Against A.I. Killing Us All..?
“there’s another counterargument to be made based on the philosophy of ethics. Until an A.I. has feelings, it’s going to be unable to want to...
22
Apr 2016
The funny things happening on the way to singularity (via TechCrunch)
“Machines will be better at math, science and engineering than we will.”The funny things happening on the way to singularityhttps://social.techcrunch.com/2016/04/09/the-funny-things-happening-on-the-way-to-singularity/via Instapaper
19
Apr 2016
Imperial Ambitions: Mark Zuckerberg and AI (must-read via The Economist)
“In a decade’s time computing seems likely to take the form of AR interfaces mediated by AI, using gestures and speech for inputs and the...
12
Apr 2016
Medium and Twitter founder Ev Williams says it all: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’
“It’s understandable why media on the web is like it is today,” Williams tells the Guardian. “That’s not to say there’s not a lot of...
11
Apr 2016
After 20 Years, It’s Harder to Ignore the Digital Economy’s Dark Side – Don Tapscott nails it pretty well
“Technological utopians are being proven wrong by the facts: technology does not create prosperity, good democracy, and justice — humans do. To ensure that the...
16
Mar 2016
Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong (good gizmodo read)
“NYU research psychologist Gary Marcus has said that “virtually everyone” who works in AI believes that machines will eventually overtake us: “The only real difference...
14
Mar 2016
Apple vs. FBI: The tip of the iceberg as laws can’t keep up with tech
“This is a prelude of things to come, not only with encryption technologies, but everything from artificial intelligence to drones, robotics, and synthetic biology. Technology...
05
Mar 2016
What if we don’t need advertising at all? Via Medium
“In the past we put up with being annoyed and yelled at by advertising. And now we’re putting up with being spied on and guessed...
01
Mar 2016
The Technium: Why Kevin Kelly does not worry about a Super AI (and I quite disagree on that)
I like kk's work but this dead-wrong !“The clear ethical programing AIs need to follow will force us to bear down and be much clearer...
28
Feb 2016
inverted totalitarianism
“The blind masses experiencing bread and circus adventures in Hyperreality while the ‘real’ world passes by entirely undetected. The ultimate triumph of inverted totalitarianism?In inverted...
24
Feb 2016
The age of digital ethics is beginning
...and everyone is buzzing with it: Accenture (digital trust, people first) CORDIS / EU (on Gerd Leonhard's TedX talk)Watch Gerd Leonhard's 2014 (!) Ted Talk...
