Aug 15, 2017
Future of Food | San Francisco Chronicle
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: food, futurism
“Tracing the next generation of farms, restaurants and kitchens in the Bay Area and beyond”
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Aug 15, 2017
6 ways to make sure AI creates jobs for all and not the few — By Stephane Kasriel | World Economic Forum
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
“If, as The Wall Street Journal suggests, we think of AI as a technology that predicts, it’s much easier to map its impact. We must push ourselves to do that and understand the future of work.”
Aug 15, 2017
Rethinking Innovation and Scale | Stanford Social Innovation Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: governance, innovation
“An organization, and ultimately its impact, can be fundamentally defined by how it manages the dual challenge of innovating and building on its existing strengths, or ‘scaling’ as Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos suggest in their new book, Innovation and Scaling for Impact.”
Aug 15, 2017
Massachusetts takes on leadership role with new greenhouse gas-cutting regulations — By Mark Hand | ThinkProgress
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, governance, government
Aug 15, 2017
Falling Robots Are Funny, but That’s How They’ll Learn to Take Your Job
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: employment, robotics/AI
New clip of ATLAS, having some problems but interesting to see.
If at first you don’t succeed, try again—and, if you’re a robot, again and again and again and again and again and again. Because it’s worth remembering that unlike many humans, automatons will keep at a task until they do achieve success.
This GIF of Boston Dynamics’s Atlas robot taking a tumble, sliced from a TED talk published Monday, has gone viral. Presumably, that’s because when humans aren’t fretting about how they’ll steal our jobs, we sure do seem to enjoy laughing at robots falling over.
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Aug 15, 2017
The Fundamental Limits of Machine Learning — By Jesse Dunietz | Nautilus
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: machine learning
“She thought her solution was obvious. Her colleagues, though, were sure their solution was correct—and the two didn’t match. Was the problem with one of their answers, or with the puzzle itself?”
Aug 15, 2017
CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) | Exhibition by Alejandro G. Iñárritu | LACMA
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, virtual reality
“Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptual virtual reality installation CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) explores the human condition of immigrants and refugees.”
Aug 15, 2017
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Wants to Clean Up the Internet — by Nicholas Thompson | WIRED
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: governance, internet
“To Systrom, it’s pretty simple: Freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to @&#$post.”
Aug 15, 2017
The Andromeda Study: A Femto-Spacecraft Mission to Alpha Centauri — Draft report finally published!!!
Posted by Andreas M. Hein in categories: energy, engineering, physics, space
“This paper discusses the physics, engineering and mission architecture relating to a gram-sized interstellar probe propelled by a laser beam. The objectives are to design a fly-by mission to Alpha Centauri with a total mission duration of 50 years travelling at a cruise speed of 0.1c. Furthermore, optical data from the target star system is to be obtained and sent back to the Solar system. The main challenges of such a mission are presented and possible solutions proposed. The results show that by extrapolating from currently existing technology, such a mission would be feasible. The total mass of the proposed spacecraft is 23g and the space-based laser infrastructure has a beam power output of 15GW. Rurther exploration of the laser — spacecraft tradespace and associated technologies are necessary.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03556
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