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Title: The Most Crucial Design Job Of The Future Excerpt: If artificial intelligence has any hope of expanding our understanding of the world, rather than simply reflecting old biases, it needs radical transparency.

Title: The Corporatization of AI is a Major Threat to Humanity Excerpt: This "editorial" article represents the personal views of the author, shaped by his 3 decades in the AI research community and 2 decades as an AI entrepreneur. It absolutely doe…

When to use Zoom, when virtual worlds, or a combination of both

Brilliant find Roland, will some help the rest of us to participate here, or have they done so already and I missed it? Thanks again.

"documents the downward trend in the labor share of income since the early 1990s, as well as its heterogeneous evolution across countries, industries, and workers of different skill groups, using newly assembled data for a large sample of advanced and emerging market and developing economies. The chapter then analyzes the forces behind these trends. Technological progress, reflected in the steep decline in the relative price of investment goods, along with varying exposure to routine-based occupations, explains about half the overall decline in advanced economies, with a larger negative impact on the earnings of middle-skilled workers. "

"Twitter as a co-op? It is a dream that is worthy of consideration Alternative models are far from discredited - just look at Wikipedia and Mozilla"

"He believes that although technology can objectively decrease risk of a particular kind or make us feel less vulnerable in particular way, any technology that decreases some kind of risk also introduces new risks, thereby altering the ways in which we are at risk and experience vulnerability. Thus, rather than think of the human-technology dialectic as a process that makes humans less vulnerable, it is better conceptualized, he believes, as a process of transformation--a process that transforms human vulnerability."

hands," he says. "It would be like they're talking with their hands""

an accident waiting to happen

'we'll begin to unpack the 10-year vision of a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for augmented reality (AR) glasses that can use the information you choose to share, to infer what you want to do, when you want to do it'

" Google's announcement is a classic example of what you might call privacy theater: While marketed as a step forward for consumer privacy, it does very little to change the underlying dynamics of an industry built on surveillance-based behavioral advertising."

Why do so many in the Open Source world prefer gift-style licensing (BSD, MIT, Apache) vs. share-and-share-alike licensing (like GPL)? Because the largest corporations control the dialogue and speak for the Open Source community, and it is to their advantage. Not anyone else's.

maybe one major country is ahead compared to one other major country, but this tends to make us forget that it is still behind 20 other countries.

From the research side of things, we continue to see a strong correlation between the size of the model and the performance on many popular benchmarks. Universities can no longer compete on this. Academics can still make valuable research contributions by showing new ways to do things that work on smaller, publicly available models. However, it does put a number of research goals out of the realm of possibility without collaborating with large tech firms.

Clubhouse's rise is due to its success in harnessing the movement toward cults and away from communities on the internet. That signals a challenge for older social platforms and raises a question of how communities can regain power in the future.