{"id":97565,"date":"2019-10-18T01:42:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/at-techs-leading-edge-worry-about-a-concentration-of-power"},"modified":"2019-10-18T01:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:42:16","slug":"at-techs-leading-edge-worry-about-a-concentration-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/at-techs-leading-edge-worry-about-a-concentration-of-power","title":{"rendered":"At Tech\u2019s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-techs-leading-edge-worry-about-a-concentration-of-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research scientists\u2019 warnings come amid rising concern about the power of the big tech companies. Most of the focus has been on the current generation of technology \u2014 search, online advertising, social media and e-commerce. But the scientists are worried about a barrier to exploring the technological future, when that requires staggering amounts of computing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Each big step of progress in computing \u2014 from mainframe to personal computer to internet to smartphone \u2014 has opened opportunities for more people to invent on the digital frontier.<\/p>\n<p>But there is growing concern that trend is being reversed at tech\u2019s new leading edge, artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Computer scientists say A.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, requiring complex calculations done by giant data centers, leaving fewer people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology behind futuristic products like self-driving cars or digital assistants that can see, talk and reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research scientists\u2019 warnings come amid rising concern about the power of the big tech companies. Most of the focus has been on the current generation of technology \u2014 search, online advertising, social media and e-commerce. But the scientists are worried about a barrier to exploring the technological future, when that requires staggering amounts of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}