Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

Former vice president of Google Maps, Jack Menzel, went so far as to admit that the only way a user could hide their home and work address from the company was by deliberately setting these locations to random addresses

Allegations that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab make it harder for nations to collaborate on ending the pandemic — and fuel online bullying, some scientists say. Nature

New at the Belmont Club. Humanity has technology but that’s not the problem.

Except the A-bomb was much less dangerous.

Child soldiers, unending war, grinding poverty, blood diamonds, blood batteries and now volcanoes. One of the most tragic and forgotten places on earth. More coverage is allotted to George Floyd and Bill Cosby than the Congo.

Money quote: While the military relied on what was already available on the civilian market and adapted it for military purposes – in the years prior to the fighting – the IDF established an advanced AI technological platform that centralized all data on terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip onto one system that enabled the …

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Complains he was put on hold when he called the police.

Like when the Night King walks through dragon napalm without getting a hair out of place.

In a way it proves nothing. Assertions are true or false because they are or they aren’t. Facebook has no power over factuality.

The president’s plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II.

China better find the missing link “Species X” before the public finds out what “gain of function” means.

Accidents, including deadly ones, caused by software or industrial robots, can be traced to the early days of such technology but they are not a direct consequence of the particulars of the intelligence available in such systems. AI failures, on the other hand, are directly related to the mistakes produced by the intelligence that such …

Continue reading “Intelligent doesn’t mean infallible”

Tomorrow’s headlines are already written. It’s what happened yesterday that’s still to be decided.

“I have now asked the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Mr. Biden said. “As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including …

Continue reading “You mean the fact checkers could be wrong?”

Maybe China believes in itself unlike a certain civilization filled with trendy self-loathing.

Why is ethnic fraud so common in academia? Because it pays. The more important question is why does it pay?