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The download: our relationships with robots and the AI ​​plans of Doge

Fortunately, the difference between people and machines in the real world is easy to see at least for the time being. While machines tend to exceed things that find adults difficult to play at the world champion level or to multiply really big numbers-it is difficult for them to achieve things that a five-year-old can do with ease, z . B. Go to catch a ball or through a room without encountering things.

This basic tension – which is difficult for humans, is easy for machines and what is difficult for machines is easy for humans – the heart of three new books that are in our complex and often stressed relationship with robots, AI and automation deal. They force us to reinterpret the nature of everything, from friendship and love for work, health care and home life. Read the whole story.

– Bryan Gardiner

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+ Technology with which we can “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? Digital clones of the people we love could change our grief forever.

The must-reads

I combed the internet to find it today of fun/most important/most frightening/fascinating stories about technology.

1 Doge plans to choose Ki to decide fate for federal workers
The department feeds the employees of the employees in a AI model that determines whether their jobs are required. (NBC News)
+ It is part of his shortest approach for the Question Later Later. (Wp $)
+ Even Trumpern names are surprised how Gung-Ho Elon Muschus is. (VOX)
+ The now public email address was flooded with spam. (Techcrunch)