Tag: future

  • Successful Mars landing, OSIRIS-Rex arrives at asteroid, gene editing scandal: science roundup | Miles O'Brien Productions

    Successful Mars landing, OSIRIS-Rex arrives at asteroid, gene editing scandal: science roundup

    Here’s a look at the most interesting happenings in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. Landing on the Red Planet to study marsquakes Mars is hard. The odds of a safe landing on the surface are less than 50-50. But last Monday, the team at NASA/CalTech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory once again made it…

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  • The Promise and Peril of AI – Hash it Out with Tech Entrepreneur Lars Perkins | Miles O'Brien Productions

    The Promise and Peril of AI – Hash it Out with Tech Entrepreneur Lars Perkins

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not off in the distant future… in some ways it is already here. How is AI already changing our lives? Does it work independently of us or does it also have our all-too-human biases? After hashing out machine learning on Episode 19, Brian and Fedor sit down with Picasa founder and…

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  • What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey | Miles O'Brien Productions

    What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey

    What is machine learning? How does it work? What are these artificially intelligent algorithms useful for? Considering they are used by Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook and many other companies we interact with on a daily basis, what are the benefits and drawbacks? Thanks to a listener suggestion, we decided to delve deeper on the subject.…

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  • Freeing the Internet: open access is a human right

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  • Fixing privacy on the internet requires rethinking advertising

    The world of big, open data has given us undeniably useful services. Knowing the buying patterns of their customers across the country, Amazon can stock warehouses in different areas and cheaply deliver many items to you in two days or less. Spotify can act as your personal DJ, cultivating playlist of new music you will…

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  • The contextual Internet: magic from a given context

    In 2008, I was part of the team that launched the first smartphone on the Android platform. On the press conference stage, we proudly showed off the four apps we had installed. From that moment, it only took five years for the number of apps available for the Android platform to break one million. Nowadays,…

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