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Moore’s Law

The following is an excerpt from GigaOm publisher Byron Reese’s new book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity . You can purchase the book here . The Fourth Age explores the implications of automation and AI on humanity, and has been described by Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe as framing “the deepest questions of our time in clear language that invites the reader to make their own choices. Using 100,000 years of human history as his guide, he explores the issues around artificial general intelligence, robots, consciousness, automation, the end of work, abundance, and immortality.” In this excerpt from The Fourth Age , Byron Reese explores the concept Moore’s Law and how more space, more speed, and more processor power impacts advancements in technology. The scientific method supercharged technological development so much that it revealed an innate but mysterious property of all sorts of technology, a consistent and repeated
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Self-Service Master Data Management

Once data is under management in its best-fit leveragable platform in an organization, it is as prepared as it can be to serve its many callings. It is in position to be used for purposes operationally and analytically and across the spectrum of need. Ideas emerge from business areas no longer encumbered with the burden of managing data, which can be 60% – 70% of the effort to bring the idea to reality. Walls of distrust in data come down and the organization can truly excel with an important barrier to success removed. An important goal of the information management function in an organization is to get all data under management by this definition, and to keep it under management as systems come and go over time. Master Data Management (MDM) is one of these key leveragable platforms. It is the elegant place for data with widespread use in the organization. It becomes the system of record for customer, product, store, material, reference and all other non-transactional data. MDM data
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The Case For and Against AGI

The following is an excerpt from GigaOm publisher Byron Reese’s new book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity . You can purchase the book here . The Fourth Age explores the implications of automation and AI on humanity, and has been described by Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe as framing “the deepest questions of our time in clear language that invites the reader to make their own choices. Using 100,000 years of human history as his guide, he explores the issues around artificial general intelligence, robots, consciousness, automation, the end of work, abundance, and immortality.” One of those deep questions of our time: Is an artificial general intelligence, or AGI, even possible? Most people working in the field of AI are convinced that an AGI is possible, though they disagree about when it will happen. In this excerpt from The Fourth Age , Byron Reese considers it an open question and explores if it is possible. The Cas
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Voices in AI – Episode 45: A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram

Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese In this episode, Byron and Stephen discuss computational intelligence and what’s happening in the brain. - - 0 : 00 0 : 00 0 : 00 Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI, brought to you by GigaOm. I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Stephen Wolfram. Few people can be said to literally need no introduction, but he is one of them. Anyway, as a refresher, Stephen Wolfram exploded into the world as a child prodigy who made all kinds of contributions to physics. He worked with Richard Feynman for years. But, unlike many prodigies, he didn’t peak at 18, or 28, or 38, or 48. In fact, he probably hasn’t peaked at all right now. He went on to create Mathematica, which is the closest thing the world has to math as a language. He wrote his magnum opus, a book called ‘ A New Kind of Science .’ And he created Wolfram Alpha, an answer engine that gro
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Are you ready for GDPR?

You have probably heard about GDPR and wondered what the heck does it have to do with you, right? If you are EU citizen and you often check your emails, there is a good chance you know something about Europe’s GDPR. GDPR is a new law expected to take effect on May 25, 2018, and will protect the private data of consumers in Europe. Some people might think that GDPR, which stands for General Data Protection Regulation, is all about receiving identikit warnings from online companies you have interacted with but that is not the case. It is worth noting that GDPR is not the same as an inbox clogger. Rather it is a legislation that has been drafted for seven years and will come with drastic changes in different fields such as technology, advertising, medicine and banking. This article will let you know what is GDPR and how it will impact your life. What exactly is GDPR? GDPR basically refers to a set of laws that defines the rights of online users living in EU countries. The new law will r
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New Evidence Points to an Unbroken, Million-Year-Long Ice Core in Antarctica

Ice cores are like a window to the past, allowing scientists to observe and document climatic and environmental changes over long time scales. Now, scientists think they may have just found one that dates back millions of years. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/05/new-evidence-points-to-an-unbroken-million-year-long-ice-core-in-antarctica/
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Interview with Christof Koch

Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist, best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and from 1986 to 2013 he was a professor at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Koch has published extensively, and his most recent book is  Consciousness : Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist. What follows is an interview between Christof Koch and Byron Reese, publisher of GigaOm, and author of the new book The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity . They discuss artificial intelligence, consciousness and the brain. Byron Reese:  So people often say, “We don’t know what consciousness is,” but that’s not really true. We know exactly what  it is. The debate is around how it comes about, correct? Christof Koch: Correct. So, what is it? It’s my experience, it’s the feeling of life itself, it’s my pain my pleasure my hopes, my a
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