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Vladimir Devyatkin

Surviving the Rise of 'Smart Machines,' the Loss of 'Dream Jobs' and '90% Unemployment' - 0 views

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Smart Machines Technology social trade unions robot workload Societal Crisis

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  • Vladimir Devyatkin on 14 Nov 13
     
    Key Issue - How Will Smart Machines Impact Business and IT Function Through the Remainder of This Decade? Digitization Meets the Workforce - Smart Machines Are the Next Major Technology Market Transitional Scenarios - How Smart Machines Will Develop Through 2020 Smart Machines and the Specter of Destructive Creation Societal Crisis Postcrisis, Toward 90% Job Replacement
al_semenchenko

The NSA's SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people | Ars Technica UK - 1 views

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crime fighting drones skynet nsa robots security Social Technology Human vs Machine Big Data privacy Leviathan Internet

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  • In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that "we kill people based on metadata."
  • According to the documents, SKYNET engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan's mobile phone network, and then uses a machine learning algorithm on the cellular network metadata of 55 million people to try and rate each person's likelihood of being a terrorist.
  •  A flaw in how the NSA trains SKYNET's machine learning algorithm to analyse cellular metadata, Ball told Ars, makes the results scientifically unsound.
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  • In the years that have followed, thousands of innocent people in Pakistan may have been mislabelled as terrorists by that "scientifically unsound" algorithm, possibly resulting in their untimely demise.
  • Algorithms increasingly rule our lives. It's a small step from applying SKYNET logic to look for "terrorists" in Pakistan to applying the same logic domestically to look for "drug dealers" or "protesters" or just people who disagree with the state.
  • al_semenchenko on 19 Feb 16
     
    Modern technology already relies heavily on AI. AI decides who to kill based on metadata.
al_semenchenko

Artificially Intelligent Lawyer "Ross" Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm - 0 views

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Technology Social economy robots ai digital workforce Human vs Machine

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  • Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers.
  • Ross, “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney” built on IBM’s cognitive computer Watson, was designed to read and understand language, postulate hypotheses when asked questions, research, and then generate responses (along with references and citations) to back up its conclusions. Ross also learns from experience, gaining speed and knowledge the more you interact with it.
  • “At BakerHostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients.”
alexbelov

Micromanufacturing the future | TechCrunch - 1 views

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  • Micromanufacturing is the manufacturing of products in small quantities using small manufacturing facilities
  • In a perfect positive feedback loop that invariably forms around emerging technologies, SMT machines, reflow ovens and other necessary components of electronic board production will become smaller and cheaper, then cheaper still as they get even smaller.
  • Digikey is like Amazon and Wikipedia rolled into one
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  • Digikey is a vast store of virtually anything and everything that goes on printed circuit boards, from humble resistors to mighty CPUs
  • Digikey also provides technical data and marketing materials for everything they offer
  • most components can now be ordered in reels, even if the order quantity is very small
  • The idea is to allow manufacturers to create parts delivery schedules and thus achieve that coveted just-in-time production.
  • Extrapolating into the future, I see a world where compact SMT machines automatically order electronic parts from Digikey.
  • This budding movement to bring the manufacturing back home is not restricted to America alone. Across the globe in Russia, the government has started to eliminate tariffs on electronic components and simultaneously created significant barriers to using imported goods in government projects. The trend is clear, and countries big and small are beginning to follow suit.
  • alexbelov on 05 Apr 16
     
    On-demand component-based production becomes available to consumers. A trend of micro-factories is starting to take off. Just-in-time manufacturing will be a local and niche business. It should allow countries to return goods manufacturing back home from China and other off-shore locations.
zolotarev

Google Glass still exists: Meet Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 - 0 views

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  • zolotarev on 21 May 19
     
    Google announced a new version of Google Glass. Glass Enterprise 2 is powered by the "Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 platform. The company says, "This enables significant power savings, enhanced performance, and support for computer vision and advanced machine-learning capabilities." Google VR/AR lead Clay Bavor has claimed ownership of Google Glass on Twitter, so now it seems the same group that brings you ARCore and Google Daydream VR goggles will be in charge of Google Glass.
evgeny lavrov

2050 Demographics Projections | Prediction | Future | Technology | Timeline | Trend | 2... - 0 views

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  • the average desktop computer now has the raw processing power equivalent to all of the human brains on Earth combined
  • There is no longer a clear distinction between human and machine intelligence
  • Full immersion VR is now a mainstream phenomenon
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  • Entire new societies have formed in cyberspace
  • By the mid-2050s, traditional Western news corporations no longer exist
  • News gathering, analysis and distribution has fragmented - shifting to millions of creative individuals, bloggers, citizen journalists and small-scale enterprises.
  • Traditional Western TV channels have largely disappeared
  • replaced by unique "personalised" web channels, covering practically any subject or combination of subjects imaginable
  • Debates are now occurring over "synthetic people" entering the population.
alexbelov

Google's answer to Amazon's Echo is code-named 'Chirp' and is landing soon - Recode - 0 views

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  • A product team at Google is working on a hardware device that would integrate Google's search and voice assistant technology, akin to the Amazon Echo
  • a portable speaker with voice assistant tech
  • voice search and intelligent personal assistance will occupy center stage at the company's splash show
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  • And Echo is collecting the type of data — what consumers search for, listen to and buy, and how they talk to machines — that Google loves. Amazon has long been considered a big threat to Google's core business as web and mobile app users go to the online retailer for product searches.
  • alexbelov on 12 May 16
     
    Google is working on an intelligent voice assistant device for home.
Maria Gurova

8 Unexpected Ways Technology Will Change The World By 2020 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 3 views

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  • NEW EDUCATION MODELS
  • education will become an "on-demand service" where people "pull down a module of learning" when they need it.
  • "School kids will learn from short bite-sized modules, and gamification practices will be incorporated in schools
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  • Making will go mainstream
  • not just with the creative class, but with people who would never consider themselves to be traditionally 'creative'--opening up a whole population of pragmatists who now make extremely useful 'artwork'
  • dark imaginings: The end of privacy and the continued rise of surveillance. The personalization of everything and the end of serendipity. Dependence on devices. Loss of human autonomy in the face of artificial intelligence.
  • Africa embraces technology to solve health and education challenges, it may start exporting its models elsewhere
  • By 2020, mobile money will have spread throughout Africa, enabling some of the 2 billion people without access to financial services to come into the formal system.
  • In the past, innovative products flowed from rich countries to poor countries. By 2020, the pipeline may start flipping
  • Machines
  • running our lives to a very large degree...
  • Maria Gurova on 17 Jan 14
     
    Many of things we've already discussed
Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13
     
    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
alexbelov

The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic F... - 0 views

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  • By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
  • Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.
  • negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills
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  • Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Technological change sets new requrements to people as some occupaitons become obsolete and others emerge. Tops skills in the next 5 years are: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation, cognitive flexibility.
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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Google Technology big data collection internet of things robotics human tracking smart home

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  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
Irina Marchenko

How the brain controls a 'mind machine' - 2 views

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22812253

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Maria Gurova

Wearable Computers Create New Security Vulnerabilities | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • Google Glass is a pre-production device made for developers. It has bugs, and it has problems, some of which are related to security.
  • Thus for the first time, this has provided malicious folks with the opportunity to gain access to your device through these machine-readable blobs of black and white blocks.
  • They could connect it to a Bluetooth device of their choosing and stream images from its camera to a remote display, all without the wearer’s knowledge.
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  • these devices are so new, and have increasingly broader capabilities, it’s difficult to predict what forms those vulnerabilities will arrive in.
evgeny lavrov

One Day, Google Will Deliver the Stuff You Want Before You Ask | Wired Business | Wired... - 0 views

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Technology shopping anticipation tracking tech

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  • As personal digital assistant apps such as Google Now become widespread, so does the idea of algorithms that can not only meet but anticipate our needs
  • eBay lets you shop at only one store at a time and promises delivery “in about an hour,” while Google lets you shop at multiple stores and pick your own delivery time window.
  • customers won’t be ordering stuff from eBay anymore. Instead, they’ll let their phones do it.
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  • “Ambient commerce is about consumers turning over their trust to the machine,” Sheldon says
  • Between what these companies know about our interests, our friends, our whereabouts, our purchases, and anything else we’re willing to feed them, whether by email, Twitter, Facebook, GPS, or credit card, they probably should have a very good idea of what we want and when and where we want it.
anna_nelidova

The World's First Fully Robotic Farm Opens In 2017 | Popular Science - 0 views

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Technology Robots Economic future farmers Human Machine Interaction automated growing future of food Environment sustainability Energy Efficiency Humanisation of Robots Future of Talent Free Time Leisure

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  • A company in Japan is building an indoor lettuce farm that will be completely tended by robots and computers.
  • The company, named Spread, expects the factory to open in 2017, and the fully automated farming process could make the lettuce cheaper and better for the environment.
  • The plants can be grown hydroponically without exhausting soil resources.
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  • Up to 98 percent of Spread’s water will be recycled, and the factory won’t have to spray pesticides
  • Artificial lighting means the food supply won’t rely on weather variables, and the lighting can be supplied through renewable energy.
  • anna_nelidova on 09 Nov 15
     
    A Japanese company plans to open a fully automated farm by 2017 that will be very efficient and not harmful for the environment. They are hoping to increase production and to reduce labor costs and company's prices. 
Oleg Batluk

Facebook Says Its Artificial Intelligence Will Be Like A Car For Your Mind | Popular Sc... - 0 views

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  • Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), the division within the company dedicated to AI
  • some are new, like a working unsupervised learning model
  • The company has made substantial investment in artificial intelligence in the last few years
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  • Most recently Facebook has shown off a new addition for blind users
  • where we are right now in AI development. We're in the literal infancy
  • Facebook reports that it the neural net can now judge with up to 90 percent accuracy if the blocks will fall, and they claim that's better than most humans.
  • Oleg Batluk on 06 Nov 15
     
    Facebook made experiments showing AI smarter than humans and presented social solutions for blind people
Vladimir Antonov

Soon, Gmail's AI Could Reply to Your Email for You | WIRED - 0 views

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  • what’s called “deep learning”—a form of artificial intelligence that’s rapidly reinventing a wide range of online services—the company is beefing up its Inbox by Gmail app so that it can analyze the contents of an email and then suggest a few (very brief) responses
  • The idea is that you can rapidly respond to someone while on the go—without having to manually tap a fresh message into your smartphone keyboard.
  • system learns to generate appropriate replies by analyzing scads of email conversations from across Google’s Gmail service
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  • neural network—a vast network of machines that approximates the web of neurons in the human brain—and this neural network analyzes the information in order to “learn” a particular task.
  • Google’s Smart Reply system doesn’t always get things right. But that’s part of the reason the company provides three potential replies to each email—not just one.
  • The system uses what’s called a “long short-term-memory,” or LSTM, neural network. Essentially, this is a neural net that exhibits something akin to human memory. It can “remember” the beginning of an email as it’s parsing the end—and that helps it, on some level, understand this natural language
  • Vladimir Antonov on 05 Nov 15
     
    This technology could be developed further to other areas, to tailored made games for kids for example, that are adopt to each individual gaming style so kids find that games are actually made specially for them what makes their experience really personal and unique.
Anna Dubinina

Relationships with Robots: Good or Bad for Humans? - 0 views

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  • making robots look like humans or cute animals, we may develop emotional affinity toward the machines
  • . This could help promote trust with users—but perhaps also overtrust?
  • Robots are tools, but they are tools that sometimes hold meaning for people that interact with them, or through them, as when robots are teleoperated at a distance
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  • In addition, sometimes robot operators insert a very clear extension of themselves into the robot, much like we see people invest in game avatars
  • I’d also categorize extending a sense of oneself into a robot as a form of attachment.
  • In ten or twenty years, when humanlike and animal-like robots are employed in a more drone-like way from a greater distance, will a similar user self-extension or new human-robot social phenomenon cause any hesitation during human-directed tasks and effect mission outcomes?
  • As AI and robots become more involved in our models of everyday life, I believe there will be a spectrum of emotional responses toward robots depending on their roles (for instance, caregiver, educator, industrial, companion, etc.) and individual user tendencies.
  • A consequence of purposeful design for attachment is that objects of attachment trigger the owner’s emotions in situations like decision making, and so can be agents of persuasion or otherwise effect someone’s actions
  • The bottom line is that these human-AI/robot interactions are transactions and not reciprocal, and therefore probably not healthy for most people to rely on as a long-term means for substituting organic two-way affectionate bonds, or as a surrogate for a human-human shared relationship
  • Is attachment to a robot problematic ethically?
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