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August 12, 2019: Amy Webb, author of "The Big Nine," talks about AI and our future
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This week: Amy Webb, author, "The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity"
This week: Amy Webb and a conversation about artificial intelligence.
Pointers:
• The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, by Amy Webb
• On Twitter: @amywebb
• The Great Hack, the excellent new documentary about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, now on Netflix.
• With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain (NYT, July 22). Here's what it says about Sam Altman, previously of Y combinator: "at 34, he is the chief executive of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab he helped create in 2015 with Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of the electric carmaker Tesla... Since then, Mr. Altman has remade OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit, into a for-profit company so it could more aggressively pursue financing. Now he has landed a marquee investor," Microsoft...
• DeepMind's Latest A.I. Health Breakthrough Has Some Problems, by Julia Powles (August 6): "Streams, then, seems typical of DeepMind's way of working. It offers few overall gains in clinical outcomes, creates anxiety and additional workload for physicians, and was built on the back of deeply controversial access to patients' data."
• A.I. Ethics Boards Should Be Based on Human Rights, by Evan Selinger (June 20)
• Small Businesses Aren't Rushing Into AI (WSJ, June 9): "Microsoft, Google are coming up with machine-learning tools for small and medium-size firms."
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