Tag: software studies
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Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing are all celebrated as computer pioneers, but the name of John von Neumann, a brilliant Hungarian-American mathematician once nearly as well known in… more ›
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Artificial intelligence may be making some jobs obsolete but it has given a new lease of life to one group of people who play an unglamorous but critical role in… more ›
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The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, language and human-AI interaction in the coming years. We need more… more ›
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From an IndieWeb own-your-content standpoint, I’d want to post the canonical form of a board to my site and have it populate through to anyone’s collections. The board they designated… more ›
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What follows is a narrative description of a protocol that I believe might open up some interesting new possibilities on the internet. My goal here isn’t to “sell you” on… more ›
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When Liu Yang started his current job, he found it hard to go back to driving his own car: “I instinctively went for the passenger seat. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/27/1056472/life-of-chinese-robotaxi-driver/ more ›
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Once upon a time chip companies all specialized on designing one type of chip: Intel made CPUs; Qualcomm made modems; Nvidia made GPUs; Broadcom (pre-Avago) made networking chips. That age… more ›
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Artist and author James Bridle discusses their book, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence with writer and musician Claire Evans. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4I71667UXauUtUQgWtqR4Q more ›