Did you ever sign up as “worker” on Amazon Mechanical Turk? You should (especially if you are trying to understand some aspects of #AI). There’s fascinating stuff in there.

In Barcelona the whole week for the @RedHat EMEA Sales Kick Off. I’ll go there to speak, but I mainly look forward to listening and learning. It’s the salesforce that has the relationship with our clients. Their knowledge is an invaluable strategic input.

Not only @MIT published all videos of their Intelligence Quest launch event (see my previous posts). They are also publishing the videos of all lectures for their course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence: https://t.co/9W9zEIfTOW

#AI must-watch https://t.co/zqfORtS54T

What happens if social media accounts start to get disabled more and more frequently?
Eventually, people remember they have a powerful tool now almost forgotten: a blog.

Universities are more likely allowed to collect lots of data compared to corporations. If they strategically aggregate it, how much easier is for 3rd parties to access it? > MIT President Rafael Reif and Eric Schmidt, former executive chairman of Alphabet https://t.co/MJ3I2WX65R

“…in the future, people might abandon their own psychological judgments and rely on computers when making important life decisions, such as choosing activities, career paths, or even romantic partners. It’s possible that such data-driven decisions will improve people’s lives.”

Research: Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans https://t.co/aJqMJB5r67

The #AI understands how the human body impacts a WiFi field and detects gait speed (and falls), sleep phases, heart rate, and breathing WITHOUT sensors > MIT Intelligence Quest Launch: How AI Enables the Home to Monitor Our Physical and Mental Health https://t.co/IO6YZfJLFl

Enormous opportunity to use #AI for cancer treatment > MIT Intelligence Quest Launch: Learning to Cure Cancer https://t.co/B7FpNER2Li

Despite all its flaws, @instagram remains 100x more effective at discovering emerging artists relevant to my personal taste than any art portal I ever tried.

A huge problem for those portals. A huge #AI opportunity for Instagram.