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GitHub Copilot and copyright
Julia Reda, the pirate in the european parliament, argues that Github Copilot is not infringing your copyright because text and data mining is not copyright infrigement and machine-generated code is not a derivative work. She explains on simple terms the current legal status on these issues, while also arguing that copyleft does not benefit from […]
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Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence it’s a lengthy article by Hans Moravec about the theory of reality as simulation, its moral and ethical implications, and ultimately, a discussion of the very notion of reality through the lens of quantum physics… a really perfect way to mess up your mind for the weekend.
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AI is far from intelligent
Douglas Hofstadter raises a very interesting point regarding AI: can you really say that a machine it’s intelligent if it’s not actually thinking? (and not just crunching huge amounts of data to get a probabilistically advantageous answer) If you ask me in principle if it’s possible for a computing hardware to do something like thinking, […]
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The financial market is an algorithm gone rogue
Financial markets are the first rogue AI […] Somebody planted the idea that shareholder value was the right algorithm, the right thing to be optimizing for. But this wasn’t the way companies acted before. We can plant a different idea. Tim O’Reilly – Algorithms have already gone rogue
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A Natural Language User Interface is just a User Interface
Conversational bots are one of those things that might seem “magical” at first glance, but on a deeper look you can discover that there’s nothing more than a clever new way of doing things. Matthew Honnibal proposes we call this kind of technology Linguistic User Interface, by analogy with Graphical User Interfaces, explains clearly and […]
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An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules
An Argentine court ruled that an orangutan has some human rights. I get that this is exciting news for animalists, but I’m guessing that post/transhumanists and defenders of AI and other sentient beings might also be thrilled, setting legal precedent for nonhuman rights.
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Visualización de datos
Una vez que hemos recopilado/producido una cierta cantidad de información, la forma de representarla se comienza a complejizar. Aquí van algunos ejemplos de soluciones creativas para este problema.
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Próximamente en WordPress: numeración inversa de páginas
Una idea para mejorar la navegación y la organización del contenido en WordPress