So people send me articles, videos, and other interesting stuff all the time, and I enjoy and appreciate it but I rarely find the time to do a proper write up. Usually, the articles sit as open tabs in my browser, waiting for me to post them here with some analysis, and are lost after [...]
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Jon links to Forbes’ special edition on AI. I’ll go through most of these, commenting when appropriate. For instance: Dumb Like Google While the switch to “stupid” statistically based computing has given us tools like Google, it came with a steep price, namely, abandoning the cherished notion that computers will one day be like people, the way [...] except you have to understand that in these transitory times, “Google” is basically a stand-in for “future internet technologies”. Google the corporation has been pretty careful about heeding the cries of the entertainment industry. The Internet won’t be so gentle. via Gizmodo via Lally Mistrial by iPhone: Juries’ Web Research Upends Trials (NYT) Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest of the [...] If one of the fundamental problems of the technological world is the explosion of information, then it seems to me that the task of ’sensemaking’ is a burden that must be taken up by both humans and machines. This is where the real power of human-machine collaboration lies: machines are not just tools to be [...] Ran into this quote from Whitehead: It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without [...] |
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