The Correspondent
Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
17+ min · · Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of… · Shared by 700, including Sebastien Meunier, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Moritz Stefaner, Danny Preussler, 🇺🇦, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Cope, Rob Wijnberg, Rutger Bregman, Jean-François Gariépy 🧬, tante, Noah Smith, Pixel, Nico Lumma, Josep M. Ganyet, Andreas Staub, Dr Catherine Breslin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Christopher D. Long
MIT Technology Review
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
8 min · · The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business. · Shared by 576, including Mike Monteiro, cisgendered male, Mic King, Gerd Leonhard, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️, Safiya Umoja Noble, Jennifer Ouellette, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Klaus Eck, Data Science Renee, John Tasioulas, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Kent Bye (Voices of VR), Jamie Indigo 👾 100% Human Technical SEO, Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Carla Gentry 🎶, Chris Isak, Ben Goldacre
MIT Technology Review
The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed
5 min · · It’s no secret that machine-learning models tuned and tweaked to near-perfect performance in the lab often fail in real settings. This is typically put down to a mismatch between the data the AI was… · Shared by 449, including Yves Mulkers, Nicolas Babin, Carla Gentry 🎶, Nicholas Diakopoulos, AJ Kohn, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Bob E. Hayes, Florian Graillot, Marc R Gagné MAPP, AI, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Sebastien Meunier, Nige Roberts-Willson, Ronald van Loon, Mike Tamir, PhD, MichelleRobbins, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
nature
Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power
3 min · · Those who could be exploited by AI should be shaping its projects. · Shared by 362, including Joanna J Bryson, Eric Bailey, Stanford NLP Group, Gerd Leonhard, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Helen Yu, Eric Topol, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Nige Roberts-Willson, Iain Brown, PhD, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Ronald van Loon, LizNeeley, Caroline Jarrett, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Rick King, Andreas Staub, Terence Mills, Bob E. Hayes, Vaughan Bell
MIT Technology Review
Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?
17+ min · · The idea of artificial general intelligence as we know it today starts with a dot-com blowout on Broadway. Twenty years ago—before Shane Legg clicked with neuroscience postgrad Demis Hassabis over a… · Shared by 349, including Stephan Woodtli, Andreas Staub, Thomas Power, Nicolas Babin, Terence Mills, Gabriele, Bob E. Hayes, Wilko S. Wolters, Thomas Billeter, Bertrand Maltaverne, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tamara McCleary, Joanna J Bryson, Marcus Borba, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Martin Ford, AI, Iain Brown, PhD, Brian Ahier
MIT Technology Review
What is AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out
6 min · · The definition of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and the term often gets mangled, so we are here to help. · Shared by 301, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, René Clausen Nielsen, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Andreas Heer, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Oliver Ewinger, Thomas Pleil, Jonathan Kogan, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Markus Maurer, Paulmears, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Richard MacManus, Vala Afshar, von Moerenburgh, MIT CSAIL, Kirk Borne, Paul Roetzer, Thomas Power
medium.com
Decentralized and trustless? Crypto-paradise is actually a medieval hellhole
13+ min · · Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built… · Shared by 301, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Chris Messina, Mike Butcher, ashley 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦, Tris Hussey, Joona Tuunanen 🇫🇮, Glyn Britton, cackles (jeff weisbein), Pieter van Diggele, Jonas Bandi, Daniel @daddel@mstdn.social, Josh Elman, Bertrand Maltaverne, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Rand Fishkin, Björn Ognibeni, kp, Alain, Gerd Leonhard
wired.com
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Summary · 8 min · · Are blockchain currencies the future of money or just a temporary hype? Cryptographer and computer security expert Bruce Schneier believes the latter is the case. In fact, he questions the validity of what bitcoin advocates have long seen as the cryptocurrency’s winning asset: that it makes trust superfluous. Investors and technology professionals will find Schneier’s intelligent and well-argued opinion piece thought-provoking. · Shared by 231, including getAbstract, 瑞拿頭, Backchannel, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Johannes Lenz, Charles Baldwin, Gerd Leonhard, Oliver Reichenstein, Thomas Byttebier, Michael Seemann, Bjorn Larsen, fernand0, Thomas Knüwer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tauno, ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, Bertrand Maltaverne
MIT Technology Review
What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart
7 min · · It pretty much runs the world. · Shared by 204, including يونس بن عمارة, Gengo 🦁, Ian M Calvert, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, USC ICT, Bertrand Maltaverne, Josep M. Ganyet, luis antónio santos, Dominik Grolimund, Philippe Surber, Antonio Vieira Santos, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Thomas Power, Vala Afshar, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, hiten.eth, Florian Hanke 🍎, Brian Solis, Clemens M. Schuster
The New Yorker
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
8 min · · Overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt. · Shared by 190, including Chris Messina, mdy, Pete Skomoroch, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ward Plunet, Bertrand Maltaverne, Jonathan Kogan, Joi Ito, Howard Getson, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Ronald van Loon, Daniel Kraft, MD, Francesco Corea, Steven Sinofsky, Vaughan Bell, Gianluca Diegoli, Mark Kaigwa, Mike Tamir, PhD, Yvette Dubel
The Economist
An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
6 min · · After years of hype, many people feel AI has failed to deliver, says Tim Cross · Shared by 171, including Rodney Brooks, Helen Yu, Gerd Leonhard, Nicolas Babin, Yves Mulkers, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Katja Evertz, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Terence Mills, Antonio Vieira Santos, Martin Ford, Iain Brown, PhD, Francesco Corea, Rick King, Vala Afshar, Howard Getson, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Nige Roberts-Willson, Bill Johnston
TNW
Why the smartest AI is still dumber than a toddler
3 min · · Artificial intelligence is, undeniably, one of the most important inventions in the history of humankind. It belongs on a fantasy ‘Mt. Rushmore of technologies’ alongside electricity, steam engines,… · Shared by 141, including Gary Marcus, Nige Roberts-Willson, Bjorn Larsen, Oleg Baskov, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Bob E. Hayes, Bertrand Maltaverne, Ronald Schmelzer, Matthias Lampe, TNW Top Stories, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Iain Brown, PhD, Yves Mulkers, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
technative.io
The Internet of Robotic Things: How IoT and robotics are evolving to benefit the supply chain
3 min · · The Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) is a rapidly evolving technology In just a few decades, industrial robots have become commonplace in factory settings across the world, and they only continue to… · Shared by 130, including Stephan Woodtli, Jansnet, Matteo Carbone, Kirk Borne, Bertrand Maltaverne, Jonathan Kogan, Bernhard Huessy, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Futurism
You have no idea what artificial intelligence really does
8 min · · The day of the truly intelligent AI system has not yet arrived, no matter what anyone says. · Shared by 104, including Glen Gilmore #MWC23, luis antónio santos, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Gengo 🦁, Clemens, Antonio Vieira Santos, Ste Davies, Bertrand Maltaverne
MIT Sloan Management Review
Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning
6 min · · To avoid bias, people-centered design principles must be the foundation of deep-learning algorithms. · Shared by 102, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, davidabrock, Tom Connor, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Antonio Grasso, Bertrand Maltaverne, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Andreas Staub, Yves Mulkers, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Jana Eggers, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Stu Collett, Vala Afshar, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, John Hagel, Linda Grasso
TNW
How to tell the difference between AI and BS
4 min · · Artificial intelligence is as important as electricity, indoor plumbing, and the internet to modern society. In short: it would be extremely difficult to live without it now. But it’s also, arguably,… · Shared by 101, including Tamara McCleary, Terence Mills, Xose Alberte Cea, Nige Roberts-Willson, Helen Yu, Keerthi G, Bertrand Maltaverne, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Bob E. Hayes