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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Long Will it be Until we can Talk to Animals?
First I thought this was a silly question. But it is really a primary question of intelligence. Its not just a translation, but a need to parse into a useful...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos in R&D Pact with Quantum Computing Inc. for Exascale and Petascale Simulations
Quantum Computing Inc., a Leesburg, VA-based company focused on bridging classical and quantum computing, today announced a three-year cooperative research andLos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Heat
Heat and quantum computing. Quantum Computing requires physical machines which will need heat management. And that such machines may be quite 'delicate' when...
From Schneier on Security
TikTok Can Now Collect Biometric Data
This is probably worth paying attention to: A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Listen to the Catalyzing Computing Podcast, Episode 35 – Computer Architecture with Mark D. Hill (Part 1)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas (CCC Senior...
From The Noisy Channel
The Eternal Quest for Meaning
In 1668, John Wilkins published An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language. In it, he proposed a universal language that would represent every...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald's Drive Through Bot may Violate Law
Been following work by retailers to improve efficiency. This example seems a weak attempt at blocking new tech.McDonald’s drive-thru AI bot may have broken privacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Plans a Pandemic Radar
With plans for testing in a future pandemic.via ACM NEWSU.K. Has a Plan for a New 'Pandemic Radar' System By WiredAbout four years ago, seven infants and toddlers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top Supply Chain Tech Trends
Some good thoughts on tech trends in supply chain.Gartner Reveals Top 8 Supply Chain Technology Trends in SDCExecGartner has identified the top eight supply chain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Human Liver Tissue
Continue to make remarkable advances using 3D Prining.Wake Forest teams win a NASA prize for 3D printing human liver tissueNobody was really expected to conquer...
From Putting People First
Anthro-Vision: a new way to see in business and life
If there’s one simple message for the general reader in her new book Anthro-Vision it is this: the promise and value of anthropology lies in making visible that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce and Marketing AI
Overview of Salesforce and Marketing AIUsing AI to Automate Marketing Processes Using Salesforce ToolsSalesforce relies heavily on AI technology to help companies...
From Putting People First
Heidi Larson, vaccine anthropologist
Heidi Larson studies vaccine rumors—how they start, and why some flourish and others wither. Tackling misperceptions individually is like eliminating a single microbial...
From Putting People First
Humans are imperfect, inconsistent decision-makers
In their new book, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein offer strategies for improvement | An Economist book review
From Putting People First
The human error of Artificial Intelligence
Rather than trying to fix the biases of AI systems and their human error, we need to find ways to coexist with it. Anthropology can help us a lot here.
From Putting People First
The end of privacy? Central banks plan to launch digital coins
The great irony is that the revolution that bitcoin set off could be the end of [financial] privacy with the launch of central bank-backed digital coins.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A World of Holograms and Avatars Next?
Would like to see Avatar Holograms again, in fact have seen in many forms over the years. Even formally tested it in the large enterprise. Its got some goodTech...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Update Coming Up: New and Improved?
I was handed a test copy of the first windows OS by Bill Gates, when we represented our enterprises' test of the idea. It was not fully installed at our company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
USAF Autonomous Drone Skyborg Completes First Flight
Will continue to see more of this effort. US Air Force autonomous Drone Skyborg completes first flight, by Sarah Katz , Tech XploreLast month, the United States...
From The Eponymous Pickle