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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can't audit it)

Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can't audit it) | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Recent Intel x86 processors implement a secret, powerful control mechanism that runs on a separate chip that no one is allowed to audit or examine. When these are eventually compromised, they’…
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Automation may mean a post-work society but we shouldn't be afraid

Automation may mean a post-work society but we shouldn't be afraid | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
To benefit from the automation revolution we need a universal basic income, the slashing of working hours and a redefinition of ourselves without work
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Putting Big Data in Context | Innovation Insights | Wired.com

Putting Big Data in Context | Innovation Insights | Wired.com | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

While futurist Ray Kurweizel and Moore’s Law gets all the headlines, over the years there has been a lot of interesting research and creative thought given to the idea of technological innovation and its implications on the need for human involvement in complex decision-making. In the era of Big Data, when social networks capture our conversations, likes and ideas like never before and sensor networks, or the Internet of Things, indexes more of the world around us, the fastest systems have access to more of the raw fuel, in zettabytes of new data, needed to make increasingly more complex decisions. But, does that mean smart systems will soon replace human decision-making?

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Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free

Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk’s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON news dump, a grand tradition observed by politicians and capitalists alike, is usually supposed to hide bad news. So it was a little weird that Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla, and Sam Altman, president of famed tech incubator Y Combinator, unveiled their new artificial intelligence company at the tail end of a weeklong AI conference in Montreal this past December.

 

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Software beats CAPTCHA, the web's 'are you human?' test - tech - 28 October 2013 - New Scientist

Software beats CAPTCHA, the web's 'are you human?' test - tech - 28 October 2013 - New Scientist | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
By overcoming a widely used Turing test, a new program seems to have taken a big step in artificial intelligence
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