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The Next 12 months in AI
How far can ChatGPT go to fool humans? Nutgraf at The Ken This was a nice read at The Ken as usual. Though, this article ends with essentially saying ChatGPT isn’t that smart, which while it is true, is just an an odd take, because its a mistake to see ChatGPT as being in a… Continue reading
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Sunder nursery
View this post on Instagram A post shared by @armchair.travlr on Dec 16, 2018 at 9:21pm PST Continue reading
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What we get wrong about technology
Source: What we get wrong about technology — ft.com The point of this article will be clear to anyone struggling to use new technology in current processes. The article stops short of future predictions but the insights from the past are illuminating. To become really transformative, Electricity required the reinvention of the the manufacturing process, worker… Continue reading
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Arriving with Cows
A small bit of dialogue from the wonderfully satisfying movie ‘Arrival’ that i didn’t quite catch while watching, was about the Sanskrit word for “war” and its etymology. One linguist thinks the word, gavisti, comes from “argument,” when the right answer is “a desire for more cows.” Now as an Indian, this was a bit of an eye-rolling moment.… Continue reading
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The Rise of Manufacturing Marks the Fall of Globalization — Stratfor.com
Automation, advanced robotics and software-driven technologies are ushering in a new era that will leave fewer opportunities for the developing world. Continue reading
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The Once and Future Nomad
Home is an idea. Home and the city is where the work is, livelihoods are. Some adapted very well to it, some never do – somewhere in our gene pool is the urge to move to the next field. Maybe now, with production of essentials increasingly disconnected from location and labour, the nomads among us, can… Continue reading
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Clean Disruption
Perhaps the last 100 years was just a blip of centralized energy and personal transportation after all — looks like the next decade is reversing the two. A brilliant talk with numbers, made at an Energy conference, on how the next 10 years wont be like the last 100. Continue reading
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