Maximizing the benefits of machine learning without sacrificing its intelligence Imagine your Aunt Ida is in an autonomous vehicle (AV) — a self-driving car — on a city street closed to human-driven vehicles. Imagine a swarm of puppies drops from an overpass, a sinkhole opens up beneath a bus full of mathematical geniuses, or Beethoven (or Tupac) jumps into […]
The Journalist-Engineer
The emerging transformation of print media – whether it journalism, science, business or education – the flat world of human writer crafted text – is moving toward a programmable interface to an immersive and interactive knowledge experience. This is what McLuhan meant when he noted that when we are confronted with information overload – we […]
Google’s DeepMind plans bitcoin-style health record tracking for hospitals
Tech company’s health subsidiary planning digital ledger based on blockchain to let hospitals, the NHS and eventually patients track personal data. Google’s AI-powered health tech subsidiary, DeepMind Health, is planning to use a new technology loosely based on bitcoin to let hospitals, the NHS and eventually even patients track what happens to personal data […]
The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine
It’s not post Truth – It’s Politics as Marketing – A Must Read – for people concerned with honest elections and politics “This is a propaganda machine. It’s targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. It’s a level of social engineering that I’ve never seen before. They’re capturing people and then keeping them […]