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The threat from AI is not that it will revolt, it’s that it’ll do exactly as it’s told | CBC Radio cbc.ca/radio/quirks/a… So interesting piece on CBC @CBCQuirks One point that was made is “we don’t have examples in nature of less capable, less Continue reading The problem of Disobedient Slow Artificial Intelligence (SAI)
It will be 2 years until we can say we are post covid19, if we are lucky. That will mean we have a tested vaccine against the initial virus, we will understand so much more about the virus and whether Continue reading Very Early Speculations on the Impact of Covid-19
21 October 2015 is Back to the Future Day, roughly 26 years after Back to the Future II came out in November 1989. The BBC has a look at Back to the Future II: What did it get right and Continue reading Great Scott! what’s next after Back to the Future
Via TUAW comes news that Madrid’s visitors can rent tourist-friendly iPads from a business called Pad In The City, preloaded with a collection of Apps geared towards visitors to that Spanish city. Back in 2009, after traveling in Europe, I Continue reading The tripPad™ arrives in Madrid
This fall I was lucky to travel to Berlin and Paris on vacation, but as I geek I of course brought along a computer or 2. On last years trip to Los Angles I had a NetBook (Aspire One), and Continue reading Using an iPod as a travel device and the what could be (aka the tripPad™)