Title: Supersapiens, the Rise of the Mind Excerpt: In the new film Supersapiens, writer-director Markus Mooslechner raises a core question: As artificial intelligence rapidly blurs the boundaries between man and machine, are we witnessing the rise o…
Title: Reverse Robin Hood: The Historical Scam of Global Development Excerpt: IN 2015, the United Nations announced that their Millennium Campaign had successfully halved the number of hungry people on earth.
Title: How Coders Hacked Back to 'Rescue' $208 Million in Ethereum Excerpt: On Wednesday, an anonymous hacker (or hackers) stole $32 million worth of ethereum's cryptocurrency, ether, from three multi-signature wallets thanks to a vulnerability in t…
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…
Title: AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants Excerpt: Amazon's Alexa just got a new job. In addition to her other 15,000 skills like playing music and telling knock-knock jokes, she can now also answer economic questions for clients of…
Title: Title: Society-in-the-Loop: Programming the Algorithmic Social Contract Excerpt: Authors: Iyad Rahwan Abstract: Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and gov…
Title: Why AI Can't Write This Article (Yet) Excerpt: Roger Schank, a researcher and former professor, once proposed a novel goal for artificial intelligence: A computer should be able to watch West Side Story and recognize the plot of Romeo and Jul…
Title: Google's DeepMind made an AI that can imagine the future Excerpt: Google's London-based AI outfit DeepMind has created two different types of AI that can use their 'imagination' to plan ahead and perform tasks with a higher success rate than …
Title: Start Your Hedging: LedgerX to Begin Trading Cryptocurrency Derivatives Excerpt: For the first time ever, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has given permission to a private company to exchange and clear any number of crypt…