Cory Doctorow: The Coming Civil War of General-purpose Computing
Hour long talk by Cory outlining the struggle over trust of our computers - that we put our bodies into and increasingly will put into our bodies.
Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning
45 min in-depth talk about “deep”, self-taught and unsupervised machine learning.
Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment
Substantial wealth is being created with only a few workers, and with the exception of a small fraction of highly skilled workers, wages may not rise over their lifetime. Building on a widely discussed paper entitled The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?, this report examines how the changing nature of innovation, stemming from the digital revolution, is transforming the world of work and the challenges it brings.
The Future of Employment
Paper examining how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. 47% of total US employment at risk, with wages and educational attainment predicting lowest probability of computerisation.
Are We Ready for Companies That Run Themselves
Get ready for companies that run themselves. But will the autonomous economy set us all free, or just make the rich richer?
Big data is better data
Machine learning and big data will shape our lives in the near future.
How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era
Building software that connects people to their representatives.
The future of early cancer detection?
A talk about a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for early signs of multiple forms of cancer.
Welcome to Life
Hilarious 3 min video of a 1st person perspective of your afterlife after brain scanning under a corporate regime.
2030: Privacy is Dead
23 min video of a talk decribing 2030 and the “engines” that allow teens to feel telepathic and share everything about themselves.
Equation for Intelligence
A single equation of intelligence: F = T ∇ Sτ. Intelligence is a force that acts to maximize future freedom of action.