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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. Copyright 2021 Basic Books. Available from Basic Books , an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Evan Ackerman.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. The invention was used by the U.S.

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

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To find out more about the show, book tickets or keep up with the latest news, visit www.thebritishmotorshow.live. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars. It will also play host to the Automotive Careers Expo and the UK Automotive Industry Day on Thursday August 19.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. Ron Hubbard turned that idea on its head and founded a new religion purportedly based on science, and he positioned the E-meter as the device for entangling technology and spirituality.

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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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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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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. He’s also turned it into a book. It gives an answer with complete confidence, and I sort of believe it. I’ve read it. It’s superb.

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