“ [Softbank’s] investment fund, called the “Vision Fund,” has $100B committed to it, which is more than the global total of venture capital money of $65B. And he spent $32B to acquire ARM Holdings
“ @masason: I calculated 20 years ago that [Singularity would be achieved in] 2018 … I recently rechecked the calculation and it was still 2018.
“ Singularity [is] the principle that machine intelligence will overtake human intelligence.
“ Humans have about 30B neurons … transistors inside chips would seem to be about at the point of overtaking the complexity of those 30 billion binary connections in the human brain, if his calculations are right [and] ARM will ship all the chips for that.
“ There are 500 ARM chips for a new car on the street today. And none of them are secure, by the way … this can be very dangerous.
#cybersecurity
“ OneWeb will introduce 800 satellites in the next year into space … Think of it, he said, as fiber optic connections for your home from space … That will be ubiquitous [computing]
#WiFi
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