What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Real Stupidity
You may already know the short, sordid story of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence called ‘Tay.’ Modeled to speak like a teen girl, in an effort to help improve the company’s voice recognition software, Tay took to Twitter, Kik and GroupMe and proved to be quite the conversationalist — if you speak ‘teen girl’ that is. And […]
White Collar Robots
“Technology gets better, cheaper and faster at a rate biology can’t match.” – C.G.P. Grey If you’re interested in the ways automation (aka robots) will affect the world of work, I highly recommend “Humans Need Not Apply” – a 15 minute primer on the current state and future possibilities for robotics in the workplace. While it’s […]
We Are the Borg
“We are the borg.” Star Trek fans will recognize the reference immediately as part of the standard warning issued to any alien race about to be assimilated by the collective of cybernetically-enhanced beings known as The Borg. And any routine reader of science fiction with recognize The Borg for what they are: a textbook example […]