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Tag: Computing

  • How to Train Your AI

    Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It answers our questions, writes our emails, and holds conversations that feel startlingly human. But how does it actually work? How is an AI built, taught, and kept from going off the rails? The answer is more fascinating, and more human, than most people realize. […]

  • When a Backup Steals Your Life’s Work: My Experience with pCloud on macOS

    Our readers are not used to seeing this type of article. However, it offers a peek into the troubles one can encounter, also when working for peace and art – processes that are never revealed in the final text, video or image. The experience involved starting up my Mac and finding only empty folders on […]

  • Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms

    Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms

    The spirit of the Constitution, drafted by men who chafed against the heavy-handed tyranny of an imperial ruler, would suggest that one’s home is a fortress, safe from almost every kind of intrusion. Unfortunately, a collective assault by the government’s cabal of legislators, litigators, judges and militarized police has all but succeeded in reducing that […]

  • Siding with Spotify: The European Commission Fines Apple

    It will come as little surprise that colossal Apple has been favouring its own music streaming service in snuffing and stuffing competitors.  The company, it has been alleged, has prevented app developers from informing users of less expensive methods to purchase subscriptions outside the scope of Apple’s own services.  Its cosmos was all. Central to […]

  • Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s Ethics Problem

    Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots. When scrutinising the critics, attention should be paid to their motivations. What do they stand to gain from adopting a particular stance? In the case of Geoffrey Hinton, immodestly seen […]

  • You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors

    You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors

    Koga Harue (Japan), Umi (‘The Sea’), 1929. On 7 October 2022, the United States government implemented export controls in an effort to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry. An expert on the subject told the Financial Times, ‘The whole point of the policy is to kneecap China’s AI [Artificial Intelligence] and HPC [High Performance […]

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