Are you worried about bots, and spam accounts and fake accounts on the various social media platforms? You could decide that this worry should be translated into some kind of eradication of the bots problem, but I want to argue that the opposite is true. We must welcome bots, and learn to live together with […]
Learning not only the pieces of knowledge, but the additional tools that are dearly needed in order to be active, thriving components in today’s and tomorrow’s society is key. Evidently, current academic and educational institutions are not up to the job, while gamification, Learn to Earn and other components in moving to a decentralized system
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What are the highlights of Artificial Intelligence development in the past year or so? I define Artificial Intelligence as a Jolting Technology. Rather than a constant rate of doubling, like the two years of Moore’s Law, AI progresses with a shrinking rate of doubling. Its rate of acceleration is increasing. Stanford University with Open AI a
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In its recent meeting dedicated to artificial intelligence, Tesla made a bombshell announcement at the very end: next year they will present the prototype of a humanoid robot capable of executing tasks that are today done by humans. This announcement is the opening salvo of a new era of humanoid robots among us, and we
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We aim to build the cleverest software agents and robots, excited about the possibilities of artificial intelligence. We aim to build the smartest possible programs that serve us. But what if this approach was the opposite of what we should aim for? What if we instead aimed to build a set of AI components that
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Self driving cars have been part of our imagination and technological aspirations for a long time. Now that they are here, the question is not if their features are ready for us, but if we are ready for them. This is not a dream anymore, and it is urgent that we not only think about
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Our desire to understand is boundless. We reach out with our robots in the solar system and with astronomical instruments all across the universe in the hopes of recording communications from alien civilizations. We operate under the assumption that we will be able to understand them, which could be wrong. But we can prepare for
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Artificial intelligence is going to permeate what you do, and learning to live with it is a skill that you must acquire in order to understand the world of today and tomorrow. Artificial Intelligence is a technology that has been simmering for decades and promising incredible breakthroughs described by science fiction books and movies. We
Innovation is necessary for the progress of our civilization and invention is necessary in order to be able to generate new kinds of innovation. The first is the improvement of an existing process. The second is about starting on a completely novel path. We can take a look at the creativity that leads to the
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Jolting technologies provide such a disruptive advantage, that the ability to apply them across different fields, cross contaminating and taking advantage of the increasing rate of acceleration, is irresistible. SpaceX is designing, prototyping and testing a new generation of spacecraft called Starship. Starship serial number 8, SN8, flew to the altitude of 12.5 kilometres just
