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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 …
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Why lightsabers would be far more lethal than George Lucas envisioned
Research is an unpredictable process. Sometimes you end up making a really cool discovery that you didn't see coming. I recently uncovered a fundamental property...
From Phys.org Technology News
Aging voting machines threaten election integrity
Imagine you went to your basement and dusted off the laptop or mobile phone that you used in 2002. What would happen if you tried to turn it on? We don't have to...
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Drone company demos how blood air-drops will work in Rwanda
Drone delivery might be years away in the U.S., but it's becoming a reality in Rwanda this summer.
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Move to OK commercial drone flights over people
A government-sponsored committee is recommending standards that could clear the way for commercial drone flights over populated areas and help speed the introduction...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Spike those “Luddite” Awards: Not all innovation is good
Luddites attacking powered looms, 1812 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) published its annual “Luddite Awards...
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Should we 3D print a new Palmyra?
The destruction at the ancient city of Palmyra symbolises the suffering of the Syrian people at the hands of the terrorist group known as Islamic State (IS). Palmyra...
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The unfulfilled potential of the Danube as a transportation route
Europe's rivers could be used to transport goods much more efficiently. In order to do this, however, the existing international regulations would have to be implemented...
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US company to sell smartphone-shaped gun
Americans will soon be able to buy a smartphone-shaped gun that can hold two bullets and easily slip into a pocket.
From The Noisy Channel
Hand-coded rules won’t scale.
But a bit of QA would go a long way. And we should all know better than to set an unsupervised bot free on Twitter.Continue reading on Medium »
From The Noisy Channel
Our AI Children Need Supervision
Reading about Microsoft’s misadventures with it’s “Tay” chatbot, I immediately remembered a similar incident several years ago.Continue reading on Medium »
From Blog@Ubiquity
Your Smartphone Can Kill You
Niall McCarthy of Statista.com uses data from Priceonomics to define a new category of accidental death by smart phone—the “selfie-fatality.” Forty-nine peopleRead...
From The Noisy Channel
Technology Can Help Us Collaborate
In my previous post, I argued that collaboration isn’t purely — or even primarily — a technical challenge.Continue reading on Medium »
From The Noisy Channel
Collaboration isn’t a Technology Problem
Collaboration is hard. Technology can improve how we collaborate, but effective collaboration isn’t purely — or even primarily—a technical…Continue reading...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Tim Cook at the Pearly Gates
By now almost everything that can be said about the Apple-FBI riff has been said. The FBI wants to open the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone and Apple’s CEO Tim...
From My Biased Coin
David Johnson
I was sad to learn that David Johnson passed away. David was a leader in the theoretical computer science community for decades, both in his research and in his...
From My Biased Coin
Distinguished Service Award
Nominations are open for the SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize.More information is available at the SIGACT web site. Here's the key info: Nominations Nominations...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Is the End Near for the Apple iPhone?
Alphabet recently became the largest company based on its market capitalization, squeezing out Apple for the number one spot of all-time successful companies. Perhaps...
From The Noisy Channel
I agree with the widely expressed concern that the ubiquity of AIs gendered as female is…
That said, I understand the desire to humanize AIs, and gender is part of what makes us human. I just wish we could approach humanization…Continue reading on Medium...
From The Noisy Channel
I agree that the last thing we need in the tech industry is a reinforcement of gender stereotypes.
But to answer your question, yes, the AIs to create the calendar invitations. And I wouldn’t even have seen most of the conversation had I…Continue reading on Medium...
From The Noisy Channel