The Vital Edge by Gideon Rosenblatt Work, society and the human experience in an era of machine intelligence.

Reading Time: 1 minute Decentralization requires the nature of applications to evolve from silos to shared views.

Reading Time: 1 minute Machine learning is a new type of vision, akin to the telescope and microscope, full of new insights into the underlying behavior of physical reality.

Reading Time: 1 minute Machine learning helps identify bias in Google's image recognition algorithms by looking at images of toilets from around the world.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The shift in global intelligence from a purely biological phenomenon to a newly emergent, synthetic intelligence from the realm of knowledge.

Reading Time: 1 minute Google Duplex is live in a number of cities, using voice recognition and speech synthesis to interact with local businesses on your behalf.

Reading Time: 1 minute There didn’t used to be much money in developing protocols. That is now changing with the evolution of cryptographic tokens and it's going to help us build a world-wide computing mesh.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to the era of the self-service platforms, automated monolithic machines wrapped in consumer-friendly branding.

Reading Time: 1 minute Geoffrey Hinton on weaponized AI, the shortage of machine learning talent, and the way AI is concentrating wealth.