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Panic about social media ruining kids' minds is just another in a long line of panics created by older generations intimidated by new technology.
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Singularitarian arguments for the seeming inevitability of artificial super-intelligent are little more than wild extrapolations of pop sci cliches.
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Ray Kurzweil is an atheist by the colloquial definition of the term. But when it comes to the spirit of the term, instead of the letter, I would hesitate to agree.
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DARPA wants machines that can look at video and not just see what's in the frame, but understand it.
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Some recent AI papers suggest training robots like you would train intelligent animals. The question is why you would need to do that.
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The internet is failing to live up to its utopian ideals for a simple reason. A lot of people just want to reach out to hate someone, not make friends.
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A lot of popular science writers who don't know how AI is developed are hyping a Skynet scenario. Don't believe them.
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On the surface, a basic AI handily beat humans in a classification task. But if you look at the details, its victory wasn't exactly a clean one.
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Another year, another peek under the hood of Weird Things.
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When you start with a deeply flawed premise and advance a deeply flawed argument, you'll come to a deeply flawed conclusion.
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Science bloggers are trying to wedge scientific accuracy into Tron Legacy, a movie which doesn't have any scientific content to speak of.
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Tron Legacy didn't just have countless special effects and a custom soundtrack, it managed to cram in a massive dose of tech utopianism.
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IEEE is not impressed with Ray Kurzweil's cold readings about the future of computing and technology.
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Over the last 60 years, the world has dramatically changed but K-12 education hasn't. Just blaming social media and web connected devices won't help get students more engaged.
