Daily Archives: August 11, 2019
Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G is the latest proof that 5G isn't for you — yet
Commentary: AT&T may be vindicated in withholding its 5G service from consumers so far.
AT&T has had, generously speaking, a mixed year when it comes to 5G. It kicked off 2019 by doubling down on its dubious 5GE claim, which misled consumers into thinking they had 5G, when they really were tapping into an advanced form of 4G that every other carrier already offered. After touting the launch of the world’s first 5G network in December, it still hasn’t made it available to anyone aside from select, friendly business customers. Even as Samsung launches its second 5G phone in the Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G, AT&T has yet to launch its consumer service.
But, as odd as it sounds, AT&T may have been right all along. Read More
“reprogramming” the body’s so-called epigenetic marks
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, working at the Gene Expression Laboratory at San Diego’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has discovered an age-reversal mixture, which works on mice. “It completely rejuvenates. If you look inside, obviously, all the organs, all the cells are younger.” The downside is that the mice either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors that killed them later. An overdose of youth, you could call it. Read More
Intellectual Debt: With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance
What Technical Debt Can Teach Us About the Dangers of AI Working Too Well.
Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain uses technical debt to help understand “intellectual debt”: the idea that things work, even though we don’t understand precisely how. He points out that “While machine learning systems can surpass humans at pattern recognition and predictions, they generally cannot explain their answers in human-comprehensible terms.”
Why is this a problem? Because, “as AI’s intellectual debt piles up: the coming pervasiveness of machine learning models. Taken in isolation, oracular answers can generate consistently helpful results. But these systems won’t stay in isolation. As AI systems gather and ingest the world’s data, they’ll produce data of their own — much of which will be taken up by still other AI systems.” Read More
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