Nothing like a good ethical conundrum to form a foundation for a story.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

From biased AI to the moral dilemmas of self-driving cars.

http://suhub.co/2htGwAH

The starting point for this article – and it’s an interesting place to start – is the Antikythera Mechanism. But what the article is mainly about is rediscovering lost threads of knowledge in archives and documents that we already possess, and connecting them – something that deep learning will increasingly help with. The article doesn’t mention quantum computing, but the kind of massive-scale modelling that quantum computers will be capable of could be ideal for this kind of project.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/the-search-for-lost-knowledge/506879/

Park your warehouse in the air over the city; deliver via drone.

Originally shared by Gregor J. Rothfuss

fun, if somewhat impractical for the time being.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/get_ready_for_amazons_creepy_and_marvelous_floating_warehouses_of_the_skya

Robot arm. Hundred bucks.

Originally shared by Arduino

The LittleArm is a 3D-printed robot powered by an Arduino and a couple metal-gear servos.

(via Make:)

http://bit.ly/2hub6Pf

Early science fiction (or its predecessor, “scientific romance”) often featured a lone scientist making a breakthrough in his (always his) home laboratory. These days, we know that important science isn’t done that way; you need a big lab with lots of expensive equipment and a dozen people with PhDs in order to achieve anything, and even then it takes years.

Only… maybe that’s not always the case.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

“[I]n the same way that anyone can now experiment with software and electronics, we should be able to experiment with plug-and-play biotechnology.”

–Julie Legault, founder & CEO, Amino Labs http://suhub.co/2ir6nuu

http://suhub.co/2hwQdD5

It knows when you are sleeping. It knows when you’re awake…

Originally shared by HACKADAY

It is interesting to see the wide coverage of a police investigation looking to harvest data from the Amazon Echo, the always-listening home automation device you may know as Alexa. A murder investigation has led them to issue Amazon a warrant to fork…

http://hackaday.com/2016/12/28/police-want-alexa-data-people-begin-to-realize-its-listening

Via Larry Panozzo, an upbeat look at the potential of deep learning and AI.

Originally shared by Firas Hermez

The title says it all…

https://backchannel.com/the-ai-takeover-is-coming-lets-embrace-it-d764d61f83a

An alternate view to many: perhaps technological unemployment isn’t a threat after all?

Originally shared by Daniel Lemire

The threat of technological unemployment

http://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/26/the-threat-of-technological-unemployment/

c.c. Mark Lewis

http://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/26/the-threat-of-technological-unemployment/