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Artificial Intelligence Will Serve Humans, Not Enslave Them – Scientific American

February 29, 2020

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-intelligence-will-serve-humans-not-enslave-them/

Interesting discussion of the development of “Digital Doubles” as a kind of computational subconscious for each person, residing in the cloud

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SEPTEMBER 2018

Artificial Intelligence Will Serve Humans, Not Enslave Them
AI will serve our species, not control it
By Pedro Domingos
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Humans are the only animals that build machines. By doing so, we expand our capabilities beyond our biological limits. Tools turn our hands into more versatile appendages. Cars let us travel faster, and airplanes give us wings. Computers endow…
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98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Isn’t the Average Anymore – WSJ

February 28, 2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/98-6-degrees-fahrenheit-isnt-the-average-any-more-11579257001

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Today, they say, the average normal human-body temperature is closer to 97.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse? | The New Yorker

February 1, 2020

Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/can-the-manufacturer-of-tasers-provide-the-answer-to-police-abuse… Article has a good quote/point: “Smith assembled an AI Ethics Board… His lead AI researcher…told him that he wouldn’t be able to hire the best engineers without [such] a board.”

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Recently, Smith assembled an A.I. Ethics Board, to help steer Axon’s decisions. (His lead A.I. researcher, recruited from Uber, told him that he wouldn’t be able to hire the best engineers without an ethics board.) Smith told me, “I don’t want to wake up like the guy Nobel, who spent his life making things that kill people, and then, at the end of his life, it’s, like, ‘O.K., I have to buy my way out of this.’ ”
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/can-the-manufacturer-of-tasers-provide-the-answer-to-police-abuse

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Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor

February 1, 2020

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“He had also written a farewell letter. “I believe that working for something larger than yourself is the greatest thing a human can do. A family, a cause, a company, a country—these things give shape and purpose to an otherwise mechanical and brief human existence,” the letter read. “The downside about things that are larger than ourselves, of course, is that we who have the privilege of serving them ourselves are fungible. It is the fundamental definition. You can’t have the grace of the one without the other.””
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Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor

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Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia

January 27, 2020

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““From time to time, snippets of audio do go back to [other apps like Facebook’s] servers but there’s no official understanding what the triggers for that are,” explains Peter. “Whether it’s timing or location-based or usage of certain functions, [apps] are certainly pulling those microphone permissions and using those periodically. All the internals of the applications send this data in encrypted form, so it’s very difficult to define the exact trigger.””
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Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia

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Do You Know If Milk Is an Acid or a Base?

January 25, 2020

https://www.thoughtco.com/milk-an-acid-or-a-base-607361

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It’s easy to get confused about whether milk is an acid or a base, especially when you consider that some people drink milk or take calcium to treat an acidic stomach. Actually, milk has a pH of around 6.5 to 6.7, which makes it slightly acidic. Some sources cite milk as being neutral since it is so close to the neutral pH of 7.0. However, milk contains lactic acid, which is a hydrogen donor or proton donor. If you test milk with litmus paper, you’ll get a neutral to a slightly acidic response.
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pH Of Yogurt – Is It Basic Or Acidic? – Discover Food Tech

January 25, 2020

https://discoverfoodtech.com/ph-of-yogurt-is-it-basic-or-acidic/
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Generally, the pH of yogurt is in the range of 4-4.6, averagely 4.4. “}}

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Fooling Big Brother – As face-recognition technology spreads, so do ideas for subverting it | Science and technology | The Economist

January 23, 2020

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In 2010, for instance, as part of a thesis for a master’s degree at New York University, an American researcher and artist named Adam Harvey created “cv [computer vision] Dazzle”, a style of make-up designed to fool face recognisers. It uses bright colours, high contrast, graded shading and asymmetric stylings to confound an algorithm’s assumptions about what a face looks like. To a human being, the result is still clearly a face. But a computer—or, at least, the specic algorithm Mr Harvey was aiming at—is ba ed. …
An even subtler idea was proposed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Indiana University Bloomington, and Alibaba, a big Chinese information-technology rm, in a paper published in 2018. It is a baseball cap tted with tiny light-emitting diodes that project infra-red dots onto the wearer’s face. Many of the cameras used in face-recognition systems are sensitive to parts of the infra-red spectrum. Since human eyes are not, infra-red light is ideal for covert trickery.
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https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/08/15/as-face-recognition-technology-spreads-so-do-ideas-for-subverting-it

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Walking in Memphis – Wikipedia

January 20, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_in_Memphis

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“Walking in Memphis” is a song composed and originally recorded by American singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, for whom it remains his signature song
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Opinion | How to Track President Trump – The New York Times

January 16, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html QT:{{”
“With no training and far more limited technical tools than those of a state intelligence service, we were able to use the location data — date, time and length of stay — to make basic inferences. By determining whether two people were in the same place at the same time, it was easy to zero in on spouses, co-workers or friends. Cataloguing their movements revealed even more associations, creating the map of a robust social network that would be nearly impossible to determine through traditional surveillance. In cases where it was difficult to identify an individual, associations offered more clues about workplaces and interests.”
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