“I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” — Claude Shannon (“the father of information theory”) Author and Historian, Yuval Noah Harari predicts that…
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“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” — Marshall McLuhan
Running with Robots “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” — Marshall McLuhan “Introducing my robot writing partners that will join me on tour this year.” — Ólafur Arnalds I went to see the phenomenal Ólafur Arnalds play…
The Boy who cried Robot: The Black Swan Singularity
Alphacoders “There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a triple revolution: that is, a technological revolution, with the…
Frenem-Ais or Digging Our Own Graves?
Frenemies Frenemy — One who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy Frenem-Ai — Ai who helps us in the short term, but may replace us in the long term Why the squiggly lines? reCAPTCHA You know…
Ai will be Male Biased = Male “B-Ai-S”
AlphaCoders Tabula rasa Proponents of Tabula Rasa believe that we are all born with a blank slate, with no pre-installed mental content and that all knowledge comes from both experience, interaction and/or perception. If you…
To Be Or Not To Be — Dystop-Ai — Could Terminator Really Happen?
In 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the “Three Laws of Robotics” in his short story ‘Runaround’ (this formed the basis for the movie iRobot with Will Smith). Wikipedia Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics…
VR: The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Space or all of them?
In social environments the “first space” is characterised as the home. The “second space” is the office. The “third space” is the social surroundings separate the first and second spaces. Examples of third spaces are…
Super Cities, Super Machines, Not Super”Man”
DC Comics All this Ai Stuff, Robots, Economic Singularity, none of it will happen in our lifetime, nor our children’s lifetime, right? Us humans have always underestimated how long it takes for technological adoption and…