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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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A few years ago, Martin Ford published a book called Architects of Intelligence , in which he interviewed 23 of the most experienced AI and robotics researchers in the world. This explains, for example, why progress toward fully autonomous self-driving cars has not lived up to some of the more exuberant early predictions.

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Select Electric Motor Show brings future tech into focus at British Motor Show in 2021

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The Select Electric Motor Show, sponsored by Select Car Leasing , the UK’s leading vehicle leasing company, will be held in the previously named Technology Hall and will now incorporate all EV content, future tech, Retro Electric and EV suppliers. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet. Quote #11 comes from NYT, Jan 9, 1947, “Push-Button Ideas of War Hit by Bush.”.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? He’s also turned it into a book. It is correlation between language.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. Yet if GE survives at all today, it will be as a much smaller firm with a much narrower mission.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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proposed the idea of the CCD , for which they would later win a Nobel Prize. His schooling in South Korea and at Columbia had primarily emphasized book learning and theory. If you repeat others’ ideas, you will never overcome them but just follow their buttocks.”. “Be Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Leisure: Walking.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. Warnock, however, took the stack and dictionary ideas—along with what he had learned from the harbor project—to PARC. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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