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Oct 22, 2018
How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I.
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: bitcoin, information science, internet, robotics/AI
Many A.I. experts are concerned that Facebook, Google and a few other big companies are hoarding talent in the field. The internet giants also control the massive troves of online data that are necessary to train and refine the best machine learning programs.
Several start-ups hope to use the technology introduced by Bitcoin to give broader access to the data and algorithms behind artificial intelligence.
Oct 21, 2018
Yale Invests in Crypto Fund That Raised $400 Million
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cryptocurrencies, education
Yale University, the Ivy League school that has invested in everything from Puerto Rican bonds to timber in New Hampshire, is getting into the market for cryptocurrencies.
Oct 21, 2018
The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing Researchers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, quantum physics, security
By some estimates, only 1,000 or so researchers can claim to understand the technology. Finding more could become a national security issue.
Oct 21, 2018
Astronomers spot the youngest known pulsar ever, and boy is it pretty
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that’s not the case with Kes 75. Located a mere 19,000 light years from Earth, Kes 75 is a ultra-dense chunk of a star that went supernova, and now scientists are calling it the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy.
In a new post on its website, NASA explains how the pulsar was detected and shows off a pretty stunning image of what it looks like from our vantage point.
Oct 21, 2018
Are you a Boltzmann Brain? Why nothing in the Universe may be real
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Oct 21, 2018
Why are particle physicists so keen to find the Higgs boson?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
This elementary particle was confirmed by Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN in 2012 — but what’s the big deal?
Oct 21, 2018
Google AI Created It’s Own Child AI, That Is Superior Then Man Made Models
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: information science, robotics/AI
The pace of AI change continues to accelerate, so for example, say hello to Google’s children.
Google Brain’s researchers created the AutoML, an AI algorithm capable of generating its own AIs, thereby eliminating the need to hire human experts.
Oct 21, 2018
We asked psychologists why so many rich people think the apocalypse is coming
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: business, existential risks
Much, much better they say 🤔.
Many of the world’s richest seem to earnestly believe that some kind of apocalyptic “event” is coming, and have prepared accordingly. You might have read about this before — such as in the New Yorker’s deep dive back in January 2017 — but billionaire doomsday preppers are back in the news again thanks to a new viral article penned by professor and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. In it, Rushkoff gives some insight on the grave manner in which some of the business elite are going about preparing for a doomsday, which he learned first-hand after receiving an invitation to speak with some one-percenters.
Rushkoff says that what was supposed to be a wholesome discussion about the “future of technology” quickly turned into a consulting session on an impending apocalypse.
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