Although this is an author self-promoting, what he has to say is interesting: Imagine a future where population shrinks. A lot. Non-disastrously.
Originally shared by Alexander M Zoltai
https://www.tor.com/2018/08/16/escaping-the-default-future-when-writing-science-fiction/
When you pay peanuts, you get… bots.
Originally shared by John Ward
Rick Wayne, this may interest you. It has to do with sociology.
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-mechanical-turk-bot-panic/
Imagine a cyberpunk future, but with a lot more Chinese influence than Japanese, and corporations controlled by the government instead of vice versa.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent: The Rise of China’s Tech Giants https://suhub.co/2w9UXTW
This is not at all concerning.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
China Is Building a Fleet of Autonomous AI-Powered Submarines. Here Are the Details https://suhub.co/2vMneAB
You could take the ideas in this piece in either direction – hopeful or dystopian. Or, of course, a mixture.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
AI Can Help Create a Better World—If We Build it Right https://suhub.co/2P6qSNJ
I often see phrases like “he was twelve-years-old,” which is incorrect. Or “a twelve-year old child,” also incorrect.
Originally shared by Grammar Girl
When the age is an adjective that comes before the noun and modifies the noun, or when the age is a noun, hyphenate. http://ow.ly/pKIm30kCTJj
Originally shared by Adam Liss
“Dad, why do I need to learn math?”
Because numbers don’t lie… but people do.
I’m going to look out for a copy of this book.
Originally shared by Judah Richardson
Two scientists have launched a campaign to get a copy of a book that debunks accepted scientific “facts” about women into every state school in the UK.
To read in full later on.
Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark
Article is a quick read. Good reminders. “Fundamental impulse at play: our innate desire for an easy answer.”
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” Fact-checkers, they found, didn’t fall prey to the same missteps as other groups. When presented with the American College of Pediatricians task, for example, they almost immediately left the site and started opening new tabs to see what the wider web had to say about the organization. Wineburg has dubbed this lateral reading.“
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“Another tactic fact-checkers used that others didn’t is what Wineburg calls ‘click restraint.’ They would scan a whole page of search results–maybe even two–before choosing a path forward. ‘It’s the ability to stand back and get a sense of the overall territory in which you’ve landed,’ he says, ‘rather than promiscuously clicking on the first thing.’ This is important, because people or organizations with an agenda can game search results by packing their sites with keywords, so that those sites rise to the top and more objective assessments get buried.
“The lessons they’ve developed include such techniques and teach kids to always start with the same question: Who is behind the information? Although it is still experimenting, a pilot that Wineburg’s team conducted at a college in California this past spring showed that such tiny behavioral changes can yield significant results. Another technique he champions is simpler still: just read it.
“One study found that 6 in 10 links get retweeted without users’ reading anything besides someone else’s summation of it. Another found that false stories travel six times as fast as true ones on Twitter, apparently because lies do a better job of stimulating feelings of surprise and disgust. “
From:
http://time.com/5362183/the-real-fake-news-crisis/
ht Kee Hinckley
Bolding mine.
Augmented/mixed reality: not there yet. But slowly advancing.