17/02/23
New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don’t need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by explaining how we’ll teach, not program, them to share our human values. Rather than worry about an unlikely existential threat, he urges us to consider how artificial intelligence will enhance human life.
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17/02/16
The Internet is full of useful bits of advice. They’ve come to be known as “life hacks”. Apparently, some of them work and some don’t. Let’s take a look at a couple of those to see if they may come in handy.
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17/02/09
Get a life? Soon it will be that simple, says Kevin Kelly. Five years from now, Kelly anticipates that most of us will have a physical reality and a virtual one – and the second will be as social and kinetic as the first.
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17/02/02
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could jump into a flying car and save a lot of time when, say, commuting to work? Well, it seems like this is exactly what Uber is planning for us.
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