Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts. Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future | Threat Level. Hal Finney and his wife, Fran, photographed in 2013. Max S. Gerber Some bitcoin enthusiasts have used their cryptocurrency to travel around the world. Others have spent it on a trip to space. But the very earliest user of bitcoin (after its inventor Satoshi Nakamoto himself) has now spent his crypto coins on the most ambitious mission yet: to visit the future. Hal Finney, the renowned cryptographer, coder, and bitcoin pioneer, died Thursday morning at the age of 58 after five years battling ALS. He will be remembered for a remarkable career that included working as the number-two developer on the groundbreaking encryption software PGP in the early 1990s, creating one of the first “remailers” that presaged the anonymity software Tor, and—more than a decade later—becoming one of the first programmers to work on bitcoin’s open source code; in 2008, he received the very first bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.
“Hal respects other people’s beliefs, and he doesn’t like to argue. Chris Dancy - The most connected human on Earth.'s Online Portfolio. Wired 2.10: Meet the Extropians. Meet the Extropians There's been nothing like this movement - nothing this wild and extravagant - since way back in those bygone ages when people believed in things like progress, knowledge, and - let's all shout it out, now - Growth!
By Ed Regis The Handshake: Right hand out in front of you, fingers spread and pointing at the sky. Grasp the other person's right hand, intertwine fingers, and close. Then shoot both hands upward, straight up, all the way up, letting go at the top, whooping "Yo! " or "Hey! " or some such thing. You won't be able to do this without smiling, without laughing out loud, in fact - just try it - but this little ceremony, this tiny two-second ritual, pretty much sums up the general Extropian approach.
It's a doctrine of self-transformation, of extremely advanced technology, and of dedicated, immovable optimism. Their gung-ho attitude reflects the success of digital technology, which these days allows us to create - at least in cyberspace - anything conceivable. How People Consume Conspiracy Theories on Facebook. Do you believe that the contrails left by high-flying aircraft contain sildenafil citratum, the active ingredient in Viagra? Or that light bulbs made from uranium and plutonium are more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly? Or that lemons have anti-hypnotic benefits? If you do, then you are probably a regular consumer of conspiracy theories, particularly those that appear on the Italian language version of Facebook (where all these were sourced).
It is easy to dismiss conspiracy theories as background noise with little if any consequences in the real world. But that may be taking them too lightly. In 2013, a report from the World Economic Forum suggested that online misinformation represents a significant risk to modern society. The report pointed to a number of incidents in which information had spread virally with consequences that could hardly have been imagined by its creators. And that raises an interesting question. There is one significant difference, however. How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Means for Our Kids | Opinion. Recently, my two-year-old nephew Benjamin came across a copy of Vanity Fair abandoned on the floor.
His eyes scanned the glossy cover, which shone less fiercely than the iPad he is used to but had a faint luster of its own. I watched his pudgy thumb and index finger pinch together and spread apart on Bradley Cooper’s smiling mug. At last, Benjamin looked over at me, flummoxed and frustrated, as though to say, “This thing’s broken.” Search YouTube for “baby” and “iPad” and you’ll find clips featuring one-year-olds attempting to manipulate magazine pages and television screens as though they were touch-sensitive displays. These children are one step away from assuming that such technology is a natural, spontaneous part of the material world. Technology Is Evolving Just Like Our DNA Does With its theory of evolution, Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species may have outlined, back in 1859, an idea that explains our children’s relationship with iPhones and Facebook.
Michael Harris About. The AI Startup Google Should Probably Snatch Up Fast | Enterprise. Clarifai First, Google acquired a startup called DNNresearch, snapping up some of the world’s foremost experts in a burgeoning field of artificial intelligence known as deep learning. Then it shelled out $400 million for a secretive deep learning startup called DeepMind. Much like Facebook, Microsoft, and others, Google sees deep learning as the future of AI on the web, a better way of handling everything from voice and image recognition to language translation. But there’s one notable deep learning company that Google hasn’t yet bought. It’s called Clarifai, and it may remain as an independent operation. Clarifai specializes in using deep learning algorithms for visual search.
Last year, along with NYU Professor Rob Fergus, Zeiler won a key image recognition test in a closely watched artificial intelligence competition called ImageNet. ‘It’s really defining your search in a visual way—not just in a text way.’ The Emerging Threat from Twitter's Social Capitalists. A couple of years, ago, network scientists began to study the phenomenon of “link farming” on Twitter and other social networks. This is the process in which spammers gather as many links or followers as possible to help spread their messages. What these researchers discovered on Twitter was curious. They found that link farming was common among spammers.
However, most of the people who followed the spam accounts came from a relatively small pool of human users on Twitter. These people turn out to be individuals who are themselves trying to amass social capital by gathering as many followers as possible. That raises an interesting question: how do social capitalists emerge and what kind of influence do they have on the network? These guys say that social capitalists fall into at least two different categories that reflect their success and the roles they play in linking together diverse communities.
First, a bit of background. That has important consequences for the Twitter network. Futurist Kurzweil Says He’s Building AI into Google Search. The big announcements at Google’s I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn’t mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful. But in a small session later that day, the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil talked confidently about making Google’s current search technology obsolete. Kurzweil joined the company 18 months ago to lead a project aimed at creating software capable of understanding text as well as humans can. Yesterday, he told the audience that progress on this effort was good, and that it would result in an entirely new way to search the Web and manage information. “You would interact with it like you would a human assistant,” said Kurzweil. It will be possible to ask a question of the software just as you would if talking to another person, he said; and you could trust that it would return a fully reasoned answer, not just a list of links as Google’s search engine does today.
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Emotions. For decades, biologists spurned emotion and feeling as uninteresting. But Antonio Damasio demonstrated that they were central to the life-regulating processes of almost all living creatures. Damasio’s essential insight is that feelings are “mental experiences of body states,” which arise as the brain interprets emotions, themselves physical states arising from the body’s responses to external stimuli. (The order of such events is: I am threatened, experience fear, and feel horror.) He has suggested that consciousness, whether the primitive “core consciousness” of animals or the “extended” self-conception of humans, requiring autobiographical memory, emerges from emotions and feelings. A professor of neuroscience at the University of Southern California, Damasio has written four artful books that explain his research to a broader audience and relate its discoveries to the abiding concerns of philosophy.
How so? William James had tackled emotion richly and intelligently. Yes. Exactly. Yes. 8 Tips For Making Virtual Reality Viable. Virtual reality is here to stay. Facebook confirmed that with its mega purchase of Oculus. But now that the dust has settled, how do we educate brands, content creators, and marketers how to use it? Unlike many other zeitgeist-busting pieces of tech that arrive on the scene, VR brings with it an entirely new language of storytelling. We're creating a new form of narrative that includes the viewer. For others who are even just considering dabbling in VR, here are eight considerations to aid your production and business process and help you understand how to use the medium correctly.
Is my brand/product/story relatable to VR? The biggest mistake in marketing is to jump on a bandwagon when the tech isn’t suitable for your message. After determining that VR is appropriate, the next step is picking the right projects. This isn't film Don’t make the mistake of thinking that it's film. So, how do you appropriately staff a VR project? Approach live action with care High performance is key. Christof Koch and Gary Marcus Explain the Codes Used by the Brain. In What Is Life? (1944), one of the fundamental questions the physicist Erwin Schrödinger posed was whether there was some sort of “hereditary code-script” embedded in chromosomes. A decade later, Crick and Watson answered Schrödinger’s question in the affirmative. Genetic information was stored in the simple arrangement of nucleotides along long strings of DNA. The question was what all those strings of DNA meant.
As most schoolchildren now know, there was a code contained within: adjacent trios of nucleotides, so-called codons, are transcribed from DNA into transient sequences of RNA molecules, which are translated into the long chains of amino acids that we know as proteins. Cracking that code turned out to be a linchpin of virtually everything that followed in molecular biology. Someday, electronics implanted directly into the brain will enable patients with spinal-cord injury to bypass the affected nerves and control robots with their thoughts (see “The Thought Experiment”). Hacker Hijacks Storage Devices, Mines $620,000 in Dogecoin | Threat Level. Dogecoin, for those who don’t spend their time indulging in Internet meta-memes, may seem like harmless nerdery. But for one enterprising hacker, it’s created a small fortune—at the price of annoying a lot of systems administrators. A pair of researchers at Dell’s Secureworks security division have traced a collection of malware-infected storage devices to a hacker who has amassed more than $620,000 worth of the currency, which they say he mined from those hijacked machines and others.
They say that stash, largely created in just two months earlier this year, may be the largest cryptocurrency hoard ever mined from the computers of unwitting victims. (Wow.) “To date, this incident is the single most profitable, illegitimate mining operation,” Pat Litke writes in a blog post explaining the findings. Litke and fellow researcher David Shear have spent months following a security vulnerability in storage hardware made by Taiwanese firm Synology. Dogecoin Foundation. 10 algoritmos que dominan nuestro mundo. Primero, ¿qué es un algoritmo? Sin entrar en definiciones formales, los programadores describen a los algoritmos como un conjunto de reglas que definen una secuencia de operaciones.
Esto es, instrucciones que le dicen a una computadora cómo resolver un problema o lograr un objetivo. Son como diagramas de flujo que muestran caminos a seguir y en los que cada encrucijada es una decisión que te lleva por una vertiente u otra. La importancia de los algoritmos en nuestros días no puede ser desestimada. Son utilizados virtualmente en todas partes, desde instituciones financieras a sitios de citas. Pero algunos algoritmos dan forma y controlan nuestro mundo más que otros, aquí están 10 de los más significativos: 1. Hace ya algún tiempo existió una batalla épica entre motores de búsqueda por la supremacía del internet. Hoy en día, Google ocupa el 66.7% del mercado, seguido de Microsoft (18.1%), Yahoo (11.2%), Ask (2.6%), y AOL (1.4%). 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 10.
Ética robótica. ¿Podrán los robots ser mejores administradores públicos? ¿Mejores compañeros de trabajo? ¿Hasta qué grado se incorporarán los robots a las guerras? ¿Qué mitos caerán cuando las inteligencias artificiales procesen la vasta cantidad de información que hemos acumulado? En “Círculos viciosos”, un cuento de Isaac Asimov escrito en 1942, situado en el año 2015, se formulan las tres leyes de la robótica: —Un robot no puede hacer daño a un humano. —Un robot obedecerá las órdenes humanas, a menos que éstas contradigan la primera ley. —Un robot protegerá su propia existencia excepto si esto entra en conflicto con la primera y segunda ley. Andrew Lg, investigador de la Universidad de Stanford, se nutre de las neurociencias y las ciencias computacionales con la consigna de reproducir el cerebro humano a través de algoritmos.
Spaun, un invento similar desarrollado en Canadá, es capaz de imitar ciertos procesos cognitivos de una persona, inclusive las carencias. Tal vez también te interese: Google And The Big Problem With "The Right To Be Forgotten" Europe's highest court recently ordered Google to delete search results if requested by its users, under the auspices of a "the right to be forgotten. " On Friday, Google revealed a new website designed, specifically, to handle the tidal wave of takedown requests it will be receiving.
It was a sweeping victory for anyone who has ever posted dumb, embarrassing crap to the Internet, and promised a fresh start for anyone with a worrisome digital trail that could come back to haunt them. To better understand the ruling, it can be instructive to recall a French law that recognizes le droit à l'oubli, or the "right to oblivion. " Georgetown University Law professor Jeff Rosen describes it as "a right that allows a convicted criminal who has served his time and been rehabilitated to object to the publication of the facts of his conviction and incarceration. " In essence, the ability to start anew is viewed as vital to a continued existence. .Security of Things .Dan Geer, 7 May 14, Cambridge Thank you for your invitation and to the other speakers for their viewpoints and for the shared experience.
With respect to this elephant, each of us is one of those twelve blind men. We are at the knee of the curve for deployment of a different model of computation. We've had two decades where, in round numbers, laboratories gave us twice the computing for constant dollars every 18 months, twice the disk drive storage capacity for constant dollars every 12 months, and twice the network speed for constant dollars every 9 months.
That is two orders of magnitude in computes per decade, three for storage, and four for transmission. Crean un mapa interactivo que muestra cómo se siente el mundo ahora. Darpa Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar | Threat Level. .:: Phrack Magazine ::. Vuforia Developer Portal. Augmented Reality in Education - home. Will we ever have love affairs with video game characters? | Technology. Being someone else: How virtual reality is allowing men and women to swap bodies. Inforg. LivesOn says death is no excuse to stop tweeting. 5 Future Technology Myths" 10 Futurist Predictions in the World of Technology" 5 Futuristic Trends That Will Shape Business And Culture Today.
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