This category contains posts that cover technology.
On The Futurists Live with Brett King we discussed the pressing issue of climate change and how it’s impacting cities like Dubai, emphasizing the need for better infrastructure and collective efforts from governments and individuals to mitigate and adapt to these changes. I believe that AI will revolutionize the way we work and live, but […]
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I am going to label the content I create using AI with this warning sign, as extensively as possible. (Licensed under Creative Commons CC-0, public domain. You are welcome to use it, change it, without giving me attribution.) For some time it may be useful to label outputs making sure that people know that AI
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In this converastion with Amara Graps, we discussed quantum technologies and her work with analyzing and communicating their progress to a divers audience of researchers, managers, and investors. Amara is a former planetary scientist who has pivoted to the field of quantum technologies. Amara shares her journey and the challenges she faced during the pandemic
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Vernor Vinge passed away recently. He was a visionary science fiction writer and thinker who greatly influenced our understanding of the potential future of technology. He presented the concept of Technological Singularity at NASA in 1993. I want to share an interview I conducted with Vernor on March 31, 2008, in which we discussed his
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I had the pleasure of welcoming back Francesco Mosconi, an AI expert with extensive experience in data science to Searching For The Question. We had a conversation around the critical topic of AI safety, focusing on the practical aspects of designing, training, aligning, and deploying advanced large language models that perform as intended while avoiding
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Transcribing and editing transcription of a video involves several straightforward steps. 1. Initially, identify the correct URL for the video and input it into the chosen downloader. While it’s preferable to download only the audio, availability varies based on the platform used. Optionally, to ease the upload process, you might extract the audio from the
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I had the opportunity to sit down with Rehan Allahwala, the founder of Rehan School, and the recipient of the 2024 BOLD Award, to discuss about his innovative approach to education. Rehan shares his journey of starting the school in 2011 to educate 160 million Pakistanis who couldn’t read or write. He discusses the evolution
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The following is the edited transcript of a talk entitled “Ontological Cosmology” I gave in New York City in 2014. I am revisiting older recordings and use AI to clean up the text, making it more readable. Ontological Cosmology What we are going to discuss here is entirely speculative. It will likely prove controversial for
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The following is the transcript of a presentation I gave at TEDx ReggioEmilia on Dec 2, 2023. When several decades ago SMS text messages on mobile phones became widespread, I was skeptical. I didn’t see the utility and I hadn’t made an effort to use them, despite my passion for technology. In fact, I realized
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Email, short form videos, infographics illustrate the role of interoperability in the future of online human relationships There is a subtle but important connection that links three apparently different digital phenomena: The email newsletter, which has re-emerged recently as an important, fundamental communications method after we thought social media would dominate; the surprising popularity of
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