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Is future bright or domination over others? Live life on our own terms

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Ancient Oracles and medieval astrology that preceded used to be the prophets of the yesteryears which is taken over by the Tech empires. Award-winning University of Oxford Professor Carissa Véliz in Prophecy argues why we must reclaim that power and shows us how.   For thousands of years, oracles, seers and astrologers advised leaders and commoners alike about the future. But predictions are often power plays in disguise obfuscating accountability and stripping individuals of their agency. Today we face the same threat of powerful prophets but under a new façade: tech.   Not only do modern predictions made by tech … Continue reading Is future bright or domination over others? Live life on our own terms

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Free Will and Prediction are vital to intelligence, brain and life itself

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For some AI researchers a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence, although neuroscientists believe that the brain evolved precisely to predict the future- the “predictive brain” hypothesis. Blaise Agüera Y Arcas, vice president of Google, programmer and founder of its research team Paradigms of Intelligence,  in What Is Intelligence, prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain, but to life itself – by exploring the wide-ranging implications. The radical perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, … Continue reading Free Will and Prediction are vital to intelligence, brain and life itself

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Consequences of making poor decisions affecting billions

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Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls. The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come. Former political adviserGiuliano da Empoli takes us on an insider’s journey through this new reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We encounter dictators and tryants, strongmen and AI billionaires – geopolitical predators, and the flailing leaders whop desperately try to appease them. In the age of the Borgias or the conquistadors, cynical scheming and brute … Continue reading Consequences of making poor decisions affecting billions

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Future: Race to invent

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On 17 November, 2023, Sam Altman (38), the enigmatic leader of the AI revolution and the head of OpenAI, buoyed by release of his company’s ChatGPT, was fired on a video call which quickly made headlines around the world. A week later, Altman was back running the company he had cofounded – and most of the directors who voted to fire him were themselves removed from the board, demonstrating his power to bend reality to his will and of how vicious and personal the rush to create this world-changing technology. He set out on a world tour that brought audiences … Continue reading Future: Race to invent

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Has Silicon Valley lost its way?

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Palantir Technologies, a company that is intertwined with the national security state, Silicon Valley’s utopian tech thinking was always untethered from reality and it’s a good thing that it is now ending. Palantir’s co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska claims that in order for the West to retain its global edge – and preserve the freedoms we take for granted – the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our urgent challenges, including the new arms race for artificial intelligence. Government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that have … Continue reading Has Silicon Valley lost its way?

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Apple has agreed to pay £77m to settle a court case

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Apple has agreed to pay £77m ($95m) to settle a court case aIleging some of its devices were listening to people without their permission. The tech giant was accused of eavesdropping on its customers through its virtual assistant Siri, as the claimants also allege voice recordings were shared with advertisers. Apple’s lawyers say they will confirm they have permanently deleted individual Siri audio recordings collected by Apple prior to October 2019. The tech firm denies any wrongdoing, as well as claims that it “recorded, disclosed to third parties, or failed to delete conversations recorded as the result of a “Siri … Continue reading Apple has agreed to pay £77m to settle a court case

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Bot-distributed misinformation

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Supremacy is  behind-the scenes story of the ruthless shadow battle between Microsoft and Google and their AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good and the dangerous direction that they’re now going.  Human brain power outstripped by AI. Five years ago no one had heard of Open AI. Now the research firm is powering Microsoft’s software, writing everything from code to school essays and bot-distributed misinformation. In Supremacy AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World, journalist Parmy Olson  carefully tracks the rise of two young companies, – the American OpenAI and the British rival DeepMind, … Continue reading Bot-distributed misinformation

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Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Did you know that Artificial intelligence alarmists warn that machine learning will end up destroying humanity – or make humans redundant but imagine what if AI tools simply do a bad job.  Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired, and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents, and astonishing real-world practices, reporter and professor at New York University, Hilke Schellmann reveals, after five years of investigating, exposes the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, the tools that are widely used by employers in hiring, firing, and … Continue reading Workplace algorithms threatening us

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Robots are taking over warehouse jobs

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Online grocery stores  doing a intricate coordination with software, artificial intelligence, Robots, vans and workers. At Ocado warehouse outside Luton, hundreds of robots are whizzing around a grid, collecting items for online orders efficiently with speed and precision. Ocado had been using these unique robots to collect and distribute products, bringing them to staff, who pack them into boxes for delivery. Roboits zoom around the grid , bring items to robotic arms, which reach out and grab what they need for customer’s  shop.  Boxes of tea, coffee, packets of crumpets, peanuts are all grabbed by the arms using a suction … Continue reading Robots are taking over warehouse jobs

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Is it the beginning or the end of humanity?

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Google’s top artificial intelligence researcher Blaise Aguera y Arcas, has developed a fascination with humanity, and according to her if we are to build intelligent machines to do what humans want, we first need to understand what humans want. In a world where identities , beliefs and genders have become so fluid with identity politics occupying the front line in today’s culture wars, pitting generations against each other, and progressive cities against the rural traditions of our past.   Aguera y Arcas armed with a geek’s obsession surveyed tens and thousands of American between 2016 and 2022 about their identity … Continue reading Is it the beginning or the end of humanity?