October 09, 2017
Backchannel: “The Myth of a Superhuman AI” 2018
#AI #Links #ScienceThere is no doubt that a super AI can accelerate the process of science. We can make computer simulations of atoms or cells and we can keep ...
October 09, 2017
The New Yorker: “A.I. versus M.D.” 2018
#AI #Links #Medicine #ScienceThe most powerful element in these clinical encounters, I realized, was not knowing that or knowing how—not mastering the facts of the case,...
October 08, 2017
The Guardian: “Total recall: the people who never forget” 2018
#Links #Medicine #SciencePrice was the first person ever to be diagnosed with what is now known as highly superior autobiographical memory, or HSAM, a condition she ...
September 03, 2017
Stephen Wolfram Blog: “Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?” 2018
#Links #Movie #Review #Science #SFMaybe (as has been popular recently) there’s a much more prosaic way to propel at least a tiny spacecraft, by pushing it at least to nearby ...
June 24, 2017
Scientific American: “Why String Theory is still Not Even Wrong” 2018
#Links #ScienceHorgan : Do you still think string theory is “not even wrong”? Woit : Yes. My book on the subject was written in 2003-4 and I think that i...