Facebook’s “Superhuman” Poker AI Out-Bluffs World’s Top Players
By: Victor Tangermann July 12, 2019 An artificial intelligence called Pluribus, created by Facebook’s AI lab and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, just beat a team of 12 of the world’s best human online poker players. The AI won an average of five bucks per hand, cashing in roughly a grand every hour. “It’s safe […]
Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Blind Mice
By: Dan Robitzski_ July 12, 2019 Thanks to a new gene therapy targeting specific cells in the eye, blind mice have regained the ability to see. A team of neuroscientists developed a treatment that re-activated the Cngb1 gene, which when disabled causes light-detecting rod cells found in the retina to deteriorate, according to research recently […]
Why does Beijing suddenly care about AI ethics?
By: Technology Review May 31, 2019 Did China and the US just agree on something?This week, Chinese scientists and engineers released a code of ethics for artificial intelligence that might signal a willingness from Beijing to rethink how it uses the technology. And while China’s government is widely criticized for using AI as a way […]
Marc Andreessen denies claims he met with Cambridge Analytica in 2016
By: World News Network March 18, 2019 A prominent Silicon Valley investor and Facebook board member has denied claims that he met with a Cambridge Analytica representative as early as 2016.The Observer reported that Marc Andreessen, a founding partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and current Facebook board member, hosted a meeting with former Cambridge Analytica […]
Conglomerates will never die out, but their form is evolving
By: The Economist February 21, 2019 Industrial conglomerates have long been considered the megafauna of the corporate world: big beasts like mastodons, who were condemned to extinction by spear-wielding corporate raiders in the 1980s. But a better analogy is with cockroaches because, against the odds, conglomerates have refused to die out. They flourish in most climates […]
Blue-collar capitalists
By: The Economist June 8, 2019 Ida tarbell, the great muckraker of the early 20th century, not only wielded her pen against Standard Oil. She also used it to advocate for better versions of capitalism. In “New Ideals in Business”, a book from 1916, she explained how William Cooper Procter, a pioneering Episcopalian, introduced profit […]
America and its economic allies have announced five “democratic” principles for AI
By: Technology Review May 22, 2019 The Trump administration might be building walls between America and some countries, but it is eager to forge alliances when it comes to shaping the course of artificial intelligence. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a coalition of countries dedicated to promoting democracy and economic development, has […]
Working, Learning, Leading in the Exponential Age
By: John Seely Brown July 2016 John Seely Brown, also referred to as JSB, who will discuss that perhaps business schools need to rethink how to prepare students for a world of constant and increasingly rapid changes and disruptions. We’re all aware that change is needed. Part of the challenge is how do you go […]
Speech recognition technology is not a solution for poor readers
By: Phys.org May 13, 2019 About one in five people is considered to be low literate or illiterate, unable to read or write simple statements. Low literacy can be due to reading impairments such as dyslexia or little or no reading practice. For developing countries with low literacy rates, voice recognition has been hailed as […]