The trend is to think of AI as advancing when it does certain narrow tasks better than humans. This idea is an old as computing itself: the race between man and machine. The concept dates back to the Turing test: if and when we will not be able to tell tasks performed by a computer …
The technology sector is going through some economic turbulence, and this is cause of some concern in general and of revisiting the organizational structure of the modern technology firms as we know them. Currently, the leading technology firms focus on a somewhat unique model of economic production. I will call this The Mining Model, as …
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When I was studying abroad in Denmark before college, I was impressed with the data-driven policy making approach I experienced, even though I didn’t have the vocabulary for it at the time. There was always a language-training center within a specific radius, and education in the high school system was strongly tailored to the individual. …