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x.ai as my secret weapon

A new AI-based productivity tool frees up hours of my day — and has turned me into a slavering fanboy!

As a start-up founder and executive recruiter, I have between 5–10 scheduled phone calls…

Comet Labs4 days ago9 min read

Engineer Explains: Lidar

This is how robots see.

Cory Caplan in The Reality WarMar 184 min read

The Reality War.

The world is not as it seems. Certainly not for me, but I am becoming brave enough to say this more assertively.

Most of us are caught in a literal magic spell. Literally. For realsies, yo. It’s just that people have a disagreement about what “magic” is.

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MFG Labs in The Programmable ChroniclesFeb 104 min read

Mixed Reality, Super Bowl, Ad blockers and more in the Programmable Edition #44

Ramesh JainMay 15, 20155 min read

AI = Contextual Reasoning + Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has four seasons: hype, disappointment, funding drought, and renewed interest. I’ve been involved in AI research for quite some time — I became a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1993 …

Chris, I remember pitching you an AI card when we were kids but I didn’t have the guts to make it a reality. I am surprised nobody has done it yet. The graphics cards are great at parallel processing but silicon dedicated to these type of operations would be better. Now I wonder just how much further along the industry would be if we’d done it!

Johan UganderMar 1111 min read

What do games tell us about intelligence?

On measuring human intelligence from comparisons

(Published 3/11; updated 3/15 with conclusion of the alphaGo match.)

Eric ElliottSep 23, 20152 min read

The WTF Economy

Tim O'Reilly

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Great article. I wrote about some of the key disruptive technologies that are already beginning to transform the world and the economy in big ways in an article called, “Get Ready for the Future: A High-Tech Video Time Capsule From My Future Self”. Some of the tech I touched on includes self-driving cars, drones, AI, augmented reality, 3d printing…