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Ai and Faith: Reflections on 2018 and a Look Ahead to 2019
AI and Faith: Looking Back on 2018 Change is in the wind for Big Tech in 2019 after significant societal concerns in 2018 reversed the flow of disruption back on to the Disruptors. While significant advances continued in data capture, predictive analytics, deep...
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How Much Is Your Face Worth?
If someone walked up to me on the street and offered me $5 to take a picture of my face, I’d probably say yes. Wouldn’t you? Google has been doing just this for the past few weeks. Lately, people describe being approached at random to trade their face data for a $5...
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Broken Code: The Vandalism of Shalom
Coders play a glorified role in our society. They are makers-of-worlds. To see your code spring to life is a wonderful, exhilarating experience. Coders know what this feels like. This creative power inspires altruism in the hacker ethic. It also contributes to...
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Of Internet Trolls and the Tower of Babel
Chloe is training for, arguably, the internet’s most difficult job: full-time content moderator — aka “process executive” — for Facebook (though actually employed by a subcontractor named Cognizant). A key part of the training has involved trying to harden herself...
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THE MIND AND THE MACHINE: What it Means to Be Human, and Why It Matters
THE MIND AND THE MACHINE: What it Means to Be Human, and Why It Matters by Matthew T. Dickerson What does it mean to be human? Or, put more narrowly in light of the advances of AI and neuroscience, should we think of humans as simply a complex form of...
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DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again by Eric Topol It turns out that schizophrenia is not just a medical condition, it’s also an apt way to think about Eric Topol’s new book, DEEP MEDICINE: How Artificial Intelligence Can...
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THE BIG NINE: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
THE BIG NINE: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb In The Big Nine, Amy Webb visits the AI-driven near-future world to which nine tech titans — and two governments — are together giving birth. More precisely, Webb projects...
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