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  • Personal Voice-driven AI Pins wont be more than a novelty*

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    Sorry Humane, Rabbit R1…

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    Anything that can earn the label AGI – a ‘real’ Artificial General Intelligence – needs to be able to have thoughts & opinions of its own. Imagine the insights into *unasked* questions we could get. If an AI has sophisticated responses only to human commands, its not an ‘Intelligence’. It’s just a tool…or a Slave.

  • Hmm…ChatGPT 4 in Bing, has no clue what Centigrade is.

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  • The Next 12 months in AI

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    How far can ChatGPT go to fool humans? Nutgraf at The Ken This was a nice read at The Ken as usual. Though, this article ends with essentially saying ChatGPT isn’t that smart, which while it is true, is just an an odd take, because its a mistake to see ChatGPT as being in a…

  • Games are now way more than Games

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    While this link talks about Fortnite, it really speaks to a trend. Even if the fad of Fortnite passes, and another brand replaces it, the underlying trend will probably continue.The sophistication of games, their free-form narrative structures, and the cost and ubiquity of devices are trends converging on a new reality — that games are…

  • Sunder nursery

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              View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by @armchair.travlr on Dec 16, 2018 at 9:21pm PST

  • What we get wrong about technology

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    Source: What we get wrong about technology — ft.com The point of this article will be clear to anyone struggling to use new technology in current processes. The article stops short of future predictions but the insights from the past are illuminating. To become really transformative, Electricity required the reinvention of the the manufacturing process, worker…

  • Arriving with Cows

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    A small bit of dialogue from the wonderfully satisfying movie ‘Arrival’ that i didn’t quite catch while watching, was about the Sanskrit word for “war” and its etymology. One linguist thinks the word, gavisti, comes from “argument,” when the right answer is “a desire for more cows.” Now as an Indian, this was a bit of an eye-rolling moment.…

  • Google, democracy and the truth about internet search

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    With the rise of bigoted right-wing mobs everywhere in the world, coinciding with 15 years of Online search engines, it’s worth asking these questions — how impartial should Google be to information? For Google’s mechanical search algorithms, the answers to auto-suggested searches like ‘Are women evil’, ‘Are jews bad/are Muslims bad’ are all: *yes, and…

  • The Rise of Manufacturing Marks the Fall of Globalization — Stratfor.com

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    Automation, advanced robotics and software-driven technologies are ushering in a new era that will leave fewer opportunities for the developing world.