by Kevin R. Gurney, Jianming Liang, Risa Patarasuk, Yang Song, Jianhua Huang, Geoffrey Roest The emission of greenhouse gases into the Earth atmosphere is driving climate change. The largest single emission category is the release of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels. Cities account for roughly 70% of the global emissions of fossil […]
Optimization over Explanation
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 […]