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U.S. Congress Discusses AI, Automation, Robotics and Basic Income

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Machine learning and robots are going to create a lot of wealth, but they will also replace a lot of human labor. We saw many types of jobs disappear in the Industrial Revolution, but we also saw jobs created that had never existed before. In this new wave of technological disruption, the pace of job automation will outstrip job creation in the short term and cause a lot of unemployment and underemployment. In the Industrial Revolution you could jump off of any unskilled labor job, take some courses, learn some new skills, and find a new, likely higher paying job. What's different this time is that we now have AIs and machine learning algorithms that can replicate many of the cognitive skills these individuals would be pursuing, and they can do it much faster.


Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems - Unified Inbox

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Artificial Intelligence is, in and of itself, a complex system, but it will likely prove useful for us to understand other complex systems. Study into this area has flourished in the last five years, leading us to identify that complex systems surround us. By definition, complex systems have many attributes, but what makes it different from simply a large system is that the behavior of the system is not solely determined by the behavior of the attributes, but also of the relationships between the attributes. They can also include non-linear behavior, so two plus two does not necessarily equal four. Understanding complex systems takes intricate study, testing attributes and their relation to each other in nuanced detail.


Montreal knowledge-sharing platform Botler aimed at helping recent immigrants - Cantech Letter

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A Montreal-based platform for sharing information aimed at incoming immigrants called Botler has been launched, developed by recent immigrants to Canada to help facilitate the process for new arrivals to help set up new lives. The platform is referred to as a "next generation" communications tool, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to facilitate group discussion in a hyper-organized and well-designed format. "This idea was born within a community of smart and highly skilled people who dream of a better life. They're willing to take big risks, give up everything and start over," said Botler's founder, Amir Moravej. "Still, so many prospective immigrants are using outdated, poorly designed messaging boards to ask and answer questions about the immigration process."


Data trusts could allay our privacy fears

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The 1832 reform act was a response to social change in the evolving industrial landscape of pre-Victorian Britain. It introduced new parliamentary constituencies. It eliminated "rotten boroughs": small constituencies controlled by a handful of voters. It also gave the vote to those men with "freehold ownership of land". Votes to those men who own freehold on land is distant from universal suffrage, but the freehold land movement soon developed.


Donald Trump gets crash course in policy to face off against Hillary Clinton

Los Angeles Times

Far from the packed arenas and showy lights of the campaign trail, the education of Donald Trump has quietly begun. The unlikely Republican presidential candidate who rose to popularity as a political outsider is now preparing for a general election battle against one of the most experienced policy professionals ever to run for president, presuming Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee. So as Trump's team begins to ready the candidate for the fall debates and drafts a series of speeches, including one on the U.S. economy, the New York businessman with no elected experience is cramming to get up to speed, consulting experts, asking questions and refining his ideas in anticipation of certain assault by Democrats. The crash courses in foreign and domestic policy are a rite of passage for virtually every presidential candidate. But they carry even greater importance for Trump, who has mocked the Washington establishment as overcomplicating problems and won over many voters with simple ideas that often lack details: build a wall to stop illegal immigration, defeat Islamic State, bring back jobs, make America great again. The campaign has tapped many of the usual sources to school the candidate.


Uber planning to bring Deliveroo competitor UberEATs food delivery service to UK

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display


HoloTrump and the future of elections - BBC News

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A confident Donald Trump is in the final stages of campaigning for re-election. It's the day before the country heads to the polls, and Trump is courting the vote in no fewer than 20 states. Using holograms, he's able to speak everywhere at once. Keeping, as we all knew he would, to his 2016 promise to run for office, the rapper hasn't bothered to leave the house. Instead, a fleet of drones is swarming across the country, dropping "Yes we Kanye!" to confused, slightly scared voters below.


Self-driving? Try self-FLYING! Autonomous helicopter makes first 30 mile journey in Connecticut

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Most people have heard about self-driving cars, with companies from Google to Honda developing autonomous vehicles. But driverless technology could be going beyond cars, with the testing of a self-flying helicopter. A Sikorsky S-76 commercial helicopter has now successfully taken off and flown autonomously 30 miles, before landing itself safely. The helicopter in the trial was the Sikorsky S-76 model which used Sikorsky's MATRIX system The Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA), used Sikorsky's MATRIX system. This is the same system that is use in the Optionally Piloted Black Hawk (OPBH) Demonstrator.


In Aircraft Modelers' Friendly Skies, Drones Bring Turbulence

NPR Technology

Ribbons of tickets trade hands for a drone raffle. It's DC Drone Day on a field in the part of western Maryland where suburbs give way to parks, rolling hills and farmland. The field is a weekend hangout spot for a group called DC/RC, one of several local clubs for people who are into flying things; specifically, pilots of radio-controlled things; even more specifically, aeromodelers. Aircraft modeling is a decades-old hobby that counts tens of thousands of followers in the country and has seen its share of changes in technology. Drones arrive as the latest revolution, and aeromodelers are sizing it up with a sense of both intrigue and apprehension -- like staring down the new guy at school who's got the cool kicks and somehow, keys to all the secret parts of the building, but sometimes does incredibly stupid things that ire the gym teacher into making everyone run laps.


India plans to introduce rules to ensure that matrimonial websites aren't used for dating

Mashable

The Indian government is planning to introduce a set of guidelines to ensure that the country's matrimonial websites aren't "misused" for anything other than the intent of marriage, and especially not used as dating platforms. The government has approved an advisory which will ask matrimonial websites to authenticate its users through legally verifiable identity and address proofs, and keep their IP address records. The new rules will require these matrimonial websites to "confirm the user's intent to enter in to matrimonial alliance" and that "the user information is correct". "We have approved the standards to check cheating on such websites," India's minister for communications and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said. The idea for regulating matrimonial websites was proposed last year, amidst complaints of cyber stalking, fake profiles and cheating.