Tag: technology
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Big data miners are sorry for being bad
Like toddlers building castles out of sand, they molded a resource — your information — giving shape to a predictive algorithm. So who exactly is “they”? No matter. None of them deserve your pity.
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An Automation Action Plan
JFK urged government and industry to ease those “inevitable dislocations and hardships” brought forth by new technology. That displacement is here, people are hurting, and we’re blindfolding ourselves.
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Building brains: An ethical dilemma in AI
Retired from 40 years teaching computer science at George Washington University, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Peter Bock remains as ambitious as ever, determined to construct an artificially intelligent being whose cognitive abilities match that of humans in “every conceivable way.”
Matt Schwartz 