Cur­rent­ly read­ing: How to be a Sto­ic by Mas­si­mo Pigli­uc­ci.

Prob­a­bly not. Would Human Extinc­tion Be a Tragedy?

Der­mor­phis don­aldtrumpi ? Amphib­ian that buries head in sand named after Don­ald Trump

Deep-learn­ing tech­nique reveals “invis­i­ble” objects in the dark, requir­ing only one pho­ton per pix­el

Intrigu­ing.
An ant colony has mem­o­ries that its indi­vid­ual mem­bers don’t have

Gov­ern­ments and pri­vate com­pa­nies are deploy­ing AI sys­tems at a rapid pace, but the pub­lic lacks the tools to hold these sys­tems account­able when they fail. AI cre­ates an account­abil­i­ty gap

Human cre­ativ­i­ty is tech­nol­o­gy agnos­tic. Tech­nol­o­gy tru­ly is just an exten­sion of man. iPhone film-mak­er Char­lotte Prodger wins 2018 Turn­er prize

Inter­est­ing, but some­what sober­ing read.. The bad news on human nature, in 10 find­ings from psy­chol­o­gy

Good series on machine learn­ing by MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review: Inside the world of AI that forges beau­ti­ful art and ter­ri­fy­ing deep­fakes