AlphaCoders “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort…
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Observing Becomes Believing
‘Give me the child for his first seven years, and I’ll give you the man’ — Aristotle “Chappie” is a South-African based movie about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname…
Planet of the Ai-PES, Digital Dementia and Digital Zombies
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”― Stephen Hawking In 1967 a group of…
Ostracizing the Changemaker: Pecking Order and The Price of Conformity
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” ― Bertrand Russell Our tribal instincts can be traced back to the dawn of humanity….
Poppin’ Pills to Pay the Bills. The Amphetamine Problem.
“You’ve showed me I’m not an addict. But I didn’t get any work done. I’d get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I’d have no ideas, just like an…
Numbing ourselves from Life, Business, Reality
William Hogarth — GinLane The Gin Craze The cover image is Gin Lane by English artist William Hogarth issued in support of what would become the Gin Act. The Gin act was introduced to prohibit gin distillers from…