by Tim Weinhold | Feb 25, 2019 | Book Review
Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, Siva Vaidhyanathan The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zuboff Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Roger McNamee...
by Tim Weinhold | Jan 30, 2019 | Book Review
For those drawn to the ‘sex and robots’ topic of Kate Devlin’s new book, the large majority will come away disappointed. Why? Mostly because Devlin is an academic. Her book is a broad survey of the field (actually, of several fields), often reporting on the work of...
by Tim Weinhold | Jan 26, 2019 | Personal Perspective
The Tension Between Materialism and Faith In his provocative book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity, Byron Reese inadvertently provides answers to a question for which answers are neither easy nor obvious: ‘why AI and...
by Tim Weinhold | Nov 15, 2018 | Curated Content
“Artificial Intelligence – A Counterintelligence Perspective: Part IV,” Jim Baker, LAWFARE, October 29, 2018 Discusses the importance of AI that is both ethical and explainable in the context of counterintelligence, but then admits that black-box AI will probably win...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 31, 2018 | Book Review
Three economists, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, teamed up to write Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Maybe it’s not surprising, then, that their book boils down to three foundational insights: New developments in...
