It’s good to see that these questions are being considered ahead of the (inevitable, at this stage) widespread adoption of deep-learning systems for essential tasks.
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Three ways to avoid bias in machine learning.
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Using Big Data to Give Patients Control of Their Own Health
The answer to the question in the title appears to be “Probably not”. And the piece quotes several organizations firmly opposed to blockchain voting or any form of Internet voting, for security reasons.
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Could Blockchain Voting Fix Democracy? Today, It Gets a Test Run
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Y Combinator’s Search For a Climate Change Unicorn
This (or something based on it) would make a great location that your characters have to visit in order to achieve their goals. Maybe something important is hidden there.
What a time to be alive.
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3D print and wear your own robotic owl that uses AI vision to see faces, judge emotions, and respond.
(via Make:)
I wouldn’t necessarily boast about being the guy who started Internet Explorer, myself, but this is a guy who knows tech, and his company is taking a different approach to neural interfaces: no implants, and the sensors are not on people’s heads but on their arms. I’ll watch it with interest, and a bit of skepticism.
NB: article needs a lot more punctuation.
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From Elon’s Neuralink to Bryan Johnson’s Kernel, a new wave of businesses are specifically focusing on ways to access, read and write from the brain.
The holy grail lies in how to do that without invasive implants, and how to do it for a mass market.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/thomas-reardon-and-ctrl-labs-are-building-an-api-for-the-brain/
A lot of virtual reality stories since the dawn of cyberpunk have followed much the same pattern: they’re basically portal fantasies, transporting the users to a different and wonderful world, where danger is real in some poorly-justified way and the interface metaphor is overliteralized for plot purposes.
Actual virtual reality offers some more interesting possibilities, because it seems that the immersiveness makes it easy to shift perception of your own identity in ways that can have enduring psychological effects. Of course, that’s harder to write about.
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How Virtual Reality Can Transform Who You Are