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Applying AI to the California Water Crisis?
Singularity University recently closed its 2015 Impact Challenge Contest, asking for “exponential technologies” to solve the California water crisis. (Winners will be announced in a few days from this writing, October 26th.) We decided to share our thoughts on the “crisis”, and the many solutions that exist. This includes solutions that can apply “exponential technologies” like artificial intelligence and big data approaches to the problem. (We’ve previously discussed the concept of “exponential” technology growth in the context of the superintelligence. As most experts readily admit, exponential technological growth is not actually a new phenomenon.) In particular, there is one tried-and-proven 19th-century technology that today widely employs “exponential” technologies like artificial intelligence. For some reason, California is not (yet) applying this technology to the water “crisis” despite America’s widespread familiarity with it. We found over 16 water conservation technologies (some we just remembered from old textbooks) that have been successfully applied elsewhere in the world, but not in tech-savvy California.… Read the restSignal processing, motion, and artificial intelligence: Ted Talk
Intelligence, signal processing, and motion Intelligence, as it evolved in the natural world, is closely connected to motion. As at least one neuroscientist has noted that no motion means no need for a brain. We generalize a neuroscience Ted Talk linking brains to muscles to argue that intelligence is best considered a form of signal processing in a very noisy environment. This is very different from the traditional symbolic paradigm of artificial intelligence, which is not at all suited for signal processing. We had a tremendous reader response (mostly on various different social media sites) in response to our superintelligence article. We have a lot of ground to cover to respond to all the comments. We have to explain why any of a number of paradigms place limits on any computing system (including a superintelligent one). We need to talk about why intelligence likely scales with non-linear diminishing returns with effort (and why that may make superintelligence difficult).… Read the restAir Quality Egg (AQE) open-source IoT photo
This is a first-generation Air Quality Egg (AQE) node (Wikipedia article) from WickedDevices in Ithaca, New York (no affiliation, although our mobile app does support it). Yes, it looks like holiday lights when operating. It changes color form purple, green, and other colors when it receives data. The AQE is an open-source hardware Internet of Things device. That means you can download the schematic and modify it yourself. Nowadays, most hardware prototyping (especially open-source) is done with the Arudino hardware prototyping system. There’s a special “Air Quality Egg” shield circuit board that holds the air quality sensors, but you can think of the Arudino as software. In the old days, electronics engineers would have to rewire stuff. But, in an Arudino, you “rewire” things by changing the software code in its microcontroller. The Arudino takes the output from the AQE shield bus and transmits it (via ethernet cable in this case).… Read the restCollage of recent photo posts
Encore layout collage of some of our recent photo posts. There has bevy of site updates on our blog: Hit article on the super intelligence or why it might be no only already here but 40,000 years old (in response to comments by the inventor of www and celebrity retweets of other super intelligence articles) Ask us anything about data science careers in prep for an upcoming piece on what major publications are calling “the sexiest career of the 21st century” Subscribe to our feed burner feed. And our survey; keep our content relevant. It’s all on our blog. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restRecent Posts
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