1. The Two Most Mysterious Words in Modern Shopping by Joe Pinsker (The Atlantic) 2. Swedish mountain loses highest peak title due to global heating (climate, The Guardian) 3. How High Tech Is Transforming One of the Oldest Jobs: Farming (farming, innovation, NYT) 4. Can New Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe (biology, Nautilus) 5. How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (AI, NYT)
1. What cell-cultured meat tells us about culture (food, new-culture) 2. Bare necessities: would you brush up against naked performers to get inside Marina Abramović’s 2020 London show? (art) 3. You Can’t Keep Your Parents’ Skulls (society, Atlantic) 4. Police Use of Facial Recognition Is Accepted by British Court (AI, NYT)
1. Texas Firm Claims To Have Developed The “Holy Grail” Of Electric Motors (innovation) 2. Alt-meat trounces animal meats massive inefficiencies by Liz Specht (food, Wired) 3. AI at work: Machines are training human workers to be more compassionate (AI) Bonus: Breaking Bad movie trailer
1. Adversarial fashion (AI zeitgeist) The patterns on the goods in this shop are designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers, injecting junk data in to the systems used by the State and its contractors to monitor and track civilians and their locations. 2. A Party Room and a Prison Cell. Inside the Friends writers’ room by Saul Austerlitz (tv) 3. John “Whitest of White Men” Oliver Calls for Backup to Talk About Bias in Medicine (healthcare) […]
1. Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip (AI innovation) also here: To Power A.I., Start-Up Creates a Giant Computer Chip 2. What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease? by David Adam (aging) 3. From Fringe to Core: The ‘Green’ Economy Grows Up $2.1 trillion: Aggregate financial impact of climate-related business opportunities recently identified by 225 of the world’s largest companies 4. Greta Thunberg’s attackers are morally bankrupt, […]
1. What really happens to your rubbish [in Britain]? (recycling) 2. Scientifically Proven Sources of Sex Appeal 3. AI can read your emotions. Should it? by Time Lewis (AI) 4. [via Maps Mania] (cartography) (a) All 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction (b) including building heights (c) and animations (for Amsterdam) This is absolutely awesome. (Btw, I love maps and cartography!)
1. And Now, a Bicycle Built for None Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architecture, Jing Pei et al., Nature, 572, 106 (2019) 2. Urban trees found to improve mental and general health People in urban areas have a lower risk of developing psychological distress and better overall health if they have more trees within a walkable distance from their homes (…) Association of Urban Green Space With Mental Health and General Health Among […]
1. AI and the intellectual debt: The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking by Jonathan Zittrain 2. China has more companies on Fortune Global 500 list than the US (if you include Taiwan). Chinese companies, however, underperformed when it came to profitability 3. When, exactly, did the astronaut set foot on the moon? No one knows 4. Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of Climate Risks 5. Pop culture has fixated on the Manson […]
There are fascinating and scary consequences of the application of AI in human decision making. Some of the pitfalls should be carefully addressed. My recent working paper on the application of machine learning in behavioral economics to prescribe personalized interventions (nudging) is now on arXiv. I’d be grateful for any comments or suggestions you might have.
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