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Jan 29, 2022

Ray Kurzweil on Preparing For the Singularity

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Jan 29, 2022

Ray Kurzweil: Your Brain in the Cloud

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Jan 29, 2022

Ray Kurzweil: Future of Intelligence | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

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This is a talk by Ray Kurzweil for course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video does not show any slides. This class is free and open to everyone. Our goal is to take an engineering approach to exploring possible paths toward building human-level intelligence for a better world.

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Jan 29, 2022

Dear Architects: Please Save Us From Suburban Sprawl

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How can architects design for the inevitable suburban sprawl that comes with our rapidly growing cities?

Jan 29, 2022

Fast radio bursts could help solve mystery of the universe’s expansion

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Astronomers use fast radio bursts for the first time to measure the Hubble constant in hopes of ending the debate on the universe’s expansion rate.

Jan 29, 2022

Building global AI with local impact in an AI economy

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI

The new foundation of the artificial intelligence (AI) economy is flexible, remote work. Thanks to advances in technology that enable remote work at an unimaginable scale, organizations developing AI can now collaborate with people from almost anywhere, including previously inaccessible areas. People across the globe can now contribute to building AI in meaningful ways, particularly through data preparation and annotation work. This has led to the emergence of a new and growing freelance category — focused on AI training data annotation and collection.

While many AI economy participants join searching for additional income, a good portion of data annotators join the AI economy because they are seeking challenging opportunities. Whatever their reason, contributors benefit positively from the new opportunities flexible work affords. Geography is no longer an impediment to skill development or participation in projects that they’re enthusiastic about.

Organizations building AI are embracing remote contracting arrangements in order to access the contributions of people around the world. These contributors may not necessarily live in technology hubs, nor have had the opportunity to participate in AI before the arrival of these remote options. In fact, professional options in their locale may be limited as a whole. Appen recently released their Impact Pulse survey of the crowd and found that 40% of contributors rely on the work from home model due to barriers of accessing traditional work. Thirty-two percent were living below the global poverty line before starting with Appen, and of those, 53% have been lifted above due to their work in the AI Economy.

Jan 29, 2022

Race to salvage US F-35C fighter jet that crashed in hostile South China Sea

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Fears that subs from China, which claims the area, could be first to reach wreckage that plunged from deck of aircraft carrier.

Jan 29, 2022

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination. Let’s celebrate the team that got it there (op-ed)

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Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen is associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. He contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

There is a new speck of light in the sky right now, best observable from Earth around midnight. This blurry speck — dim as it may be, small as it may be — represents the grit and unity of thousands of people who worked together to place it in the heavens.

Jan 29, 2022

Multiple clients for Sunflower Lab’s security drone-dock system

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI, security

Sunflower Labs announces a flurry of client acquisitions of its security drone-in-dock Beehive System in both the US and Europe.


San Carlos-based Sunflower Labs has announced a spate of new clients for its automated Beehive System security drone-and-dock, in deals ranging from Switzerland to the US South.

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Jan 29, 2022

Data mesh: What it is and why you should care

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This year, you won’t be able to escape the data mesh, one of the most disruptive trends currently operating in the data and analytics world.