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Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World

Submitted by Exponential Times on Tue, 2012-07-10 13:06
Christopher Steiner

The routing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it.

It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills—and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These “bots” started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.
In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge.

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Briggo - Coffeehouse Automation

Submitted by Exponential Times on Wed, 2012-05-09 10:03
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Read more: http://singularityhub.com/2012/05/09/automation-comes-to-the-coffeehouse...

  • Automation
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TEDxIB @ York - Ching Ye - Automating Healthcare in the 21st Century

Submitted by Exponential Times on Fri, 2011-12-09 07:42
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Ching Ye explores new problems and introduces various innovative solutions. He is passionate about technology and its applications across health care, education and international development. He is interested in helping people live better, more fulfilling lives and believes that this can be achieved with active curiosity and motivation.

  • Automation
  • Healthcare
  • TEDx
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Google's Self-Driving Cars: Coming Soon to a Road Near You

Submitted by Exponential Times on Mon, 2011-04-25 07:21
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Google software engineer Sebastian Thrun demonstrates the company's latest groundbreaking innovation: cars that drive themselves. Yes, really

Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/ideas_economy_innovation

Sebastian Thrun
  • Automation
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The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future

Submitted by Exponential Times on Wed, 2011-04-20 08:47
Martin Ford

What will the economy of the future look like? Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead? This groundbreaking book by a Silicon Valley computer engineer explores these questions and shows how accelerating technology is likely to have a highly disruptive influence on our economy in the near future--and may well already be a significant factor in the current global crisis. THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL employs a powerful thought experiment to explore the economy of the future.

  • Automation
  • Technology
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The Social Web of Things

Submitted by Exponential Times on Fri, 2011-03-25 10:43
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Ericsson believes that in the Networked Society, more than 50 billion things will be connected, in order to make our lives and our businesses more efficient and more enjoyable.

  • Automation
  • Future
  • Social Web
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Automation is here

Submitted by Exponential Times on Fri, 2011-03-04 13:06
  • Automation
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