I really wonder about the people Google etc. pass off as scientists. They are technologists I suppose. I found Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" a truly eye-opening read...It is not reassuring how much influence Google/Zuckerberg/Microsoft/Apple etc. increasingly have over science and medicine..It makes me wonder when I see stuff like this:
Great post as usual Joe. I am rereading all your older posts.
As for the God-AI as expected it is an ex-Googler-the moron behind that:
https://www.dezeen.com/2017/10/11/anthony-levandowski-engineer-religion-artificial-intelligence-ai-god-way-of-the-future/#
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski
I really wonder about the people Google etc. pass off as scientists. They are technologists I suppose. I found Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" a truly eye-opening read...It is not reassuring how much influence Google/Zuckerberg/Microsoft/Apple etc. increasingly have over science and medicine..It makes me wonder when I see stuff like this:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-08/google-ex-ceo-eric-schmidt-influences-ai-policy-with-27-billion-fortune#xj4y7vzkg
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/eric-schmidt-plans-to-give-ai-researchers-125-million-.html