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Robots, Intelligent Machines and the Future of Work
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My docking station or yours?
Can you lube my joint?
I see no way this trend can continue without eventually rendering almost all of us irrelevant.
International Federation of Robotics
I am simply unable to come up with a narrative convincing to myself in which there are many future generations of tolerably happy humans.
...the power to actually understand what their users are saying
The robot population seems to have a doubling time of about 2 1/2 years
earlywarningSTUART STANIFORD | Early Warnings
‘I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better — and when that’s closely related to how the brain works.’ — Geoffrey Hinton
DANIELA HERNANDEZ | Wired
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
The aim to give these services the power to actually understand what their users are saying — without help from other humans. “We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places,” Hinton says, “where no person, no student, no program has gone before.”
Squeezing out the middle class could generate antagonistic, unstable and potentially dangerous politics.
A new wave of technological progress may dramatically accelerate the automation of brain-work.
Society may find itself sorely tested if, as seems possible, growth and innovation deliver handsome gains to the skilled, while the rest cling to dwindling employment opportunities at stagnant wages.
How the financial system should work in the Internet era
Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change
The Economist
Satochi Kambayashi
Bitcoin offers a sweeping vista of opportunity to re-imagine how the financial system can and should work in the Internet era, and a catalyst to reshape that system in ways that are more powerful for individuals and businesses alike.
Technology that enables human creativity
A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers.
MARC ANDREESSEN | DealBook NYTimes
Keith Bedford | Reuters
The Internet unlocked the world of bits. 3D printing is unlocking the world of atoms.
Chris Dixon
Shapeways | YouTube
A second, parallel Internet.
These are networks of secretive websites that can’t be viewed on the “regular” Internet.
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Pedophiles and hit men have figured out something vital when it comes to communicating. They use a Darknet.
Clive Thompson | Wired
Illustration: Edel Rodriguez