Page 4 - John Markoff News Today

On Bioregional Futures

Tech CEOs say drugs help them with creativity. It’s an age-old Silicon Valley fixation.

Back from the holiday break, we look at data's influence on culture; glass, both as a material for transmitting bits, and as a wearable interface; and the (im)permanence of data. As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis, the best way is to subscribe to the…

(1) CAN YOU DIG IT? “And the winner for San Jose BART's boring machine name competition is...” The Mercury News tears open the envelope. After more than 400 submissions and 1,175 votes on a name for San Jose BART’s tunnel boring machine, we have a winner — and it’s sure to make sci-fi fans giddy. “Shai-Hulud” came in first

On theCUBE Pod: The chip wars rage on and thoughts on the structure of OpenAI - SiliconANGLE

For 40 years, the Stanford professor has steered the increasingly complex and meaningful interactions between humans and computers.

Kevin Mitnick is thought of as the first The Meaning of Hack|hacker (or cracker if you prefer) to be placed on the FBIs Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|FBI...

The depth of their understanding of the human world is a much more important hurdle than hallucinations for LLM to overcome before they become "superintelligence."

With all the excitement and anxiety about AI soon matching or exceeding human intelligence, it turns out that AI hasn’t actually made much progress since the 1950s.

Kevin Mitnick | US Hacker | Death