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• Why 'human-like' is a low bar for most AI projects

  Show me a human-like machine and I'll show you a faulty piece of tech. The AI market is expected to eclipse $300 billion ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why Elon Musk is wrong about Level 5 self-driving cars

  “I’m extremely confident that level 5 [self-driving cars] or essentially complete autonomy will happen, and I think ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Moving Tiktok’s ownership to Microsoft will benefit tech giants — not users

  In what seems to be a common occurrence, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again in the headlines. After months ...

  • The Conversation

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  Watch this EV charge from Zero to 100% in 3 minutes using a battery swap

  • Matthew Beedham

• Hey software developers, you’re approaching machine learning the wrong way

  I remember the first time I ever tried to learn to code. I was in middle school, and my dad, a programmer himself, pulled open a text editor and typed this on the screen: “Excuse me?” I said. “It prints ‘Hello World’,” he replied. “What’s public? What’s ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• A closer look at Ohio’s self-driving shuttle bus trial that’s now a food delivery service

  This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or ...

  • Cities Today

• AI models need to be 'interpretable' rather than just 'explainable'

  Last November, Apple ran into trouble after customers pointed out on Twitter that its credit card service was discriminating against women. David Heinemeir Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, called Apple Card a sexist program. “Apple’s black box algorithm thinks I deserve ...

  • Ben Dickson

• There is no productivity software

  This article was originally published by Matthew Guay on Capiche, a secret society for SaaS power users, building a new community of people who care about software to make the SaaS industry more transparent, together. 300,000 people are on Superhuman’s waitlist, while 95,000 requested ...

  • Capiche

• Tech helped fight COVID-19 in the short term — but it might backfire in the long term

  Among all the things that have proven to be broken and overlooked or underestimated because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ...

  • Paul McNeil

• Why mixing optimism with entrepreneurship can be dangerous for startups

  Most business startups end badly. While the number of new businesses created in the UK in 2016 – 414,000 – looks impressive ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook has been barely impacted by big advertisers' boycott — here’s why

  Facebook has faced a lot of criticism over the years for failing to moderate hate speech. Its policies have come under increasing ...

  • The Conversation

• Why sustainable startups should consider corporate venture capital first

  Urgent issues like the climate crisis, environmental degradation threatening millions of species, social inequality and other ...

  • The Conversation