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Wednesday, April 04, 2018

What Killed the World of the Jetsons

Mark Zuckerberg Prepares For Congressional Testimony By Poring Over Lawmakers’ Personal Data The Onion

Man in custody after climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge


It's a science fiction trope as old as the genre itself: humans create incredible robots, those incredible robots rise up against their human creators, chaos ensues. It's the basis for Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics". And, to many, this scenario is just that—a sci-fi nightmare. But as artificially intelligent ...
19 Jahre alter Angriff auf TLS funktioniert immer noch





THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! THE ROBOTS ARE COMING!


For 200 years, Frankensteinhas been read as a warning against unfettered scientific inquiry. That reflects a profound misunderstanding of  the story 


Story image for jobs robot golem from The Verge

Giving robots 'personhood' is actually about making corporations ...

And although parts of the report are a bit odd (Frankenstein's monster, the Greek myth of Pygmalion, and the Golem of Prague are all referenced in the first paragraph alone), at its core it's interested in the rights of people, not the rights of robots. The question it's asking is this: if something goes wrong with ...

 

The charisma droids: today's robots and the artists who foresaw them


This store room is an eerie place, then it gets more creepy, as I glimpse behind the anatomical robot a hulking thing staring at me with glowing red eyes. Its plastic skin has been burned off to reveal a metal skeleton with pistons and plates of merciless strength. It is the Terminator, sent back in time by the ...


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^**Genevieve Bell: 'Humanity's greatest fear is about being irrelevant'


The Frankenstein anxiety is not the reason we worried about the motor car or electricity, but if you think about how some people write about robotics, AI and ... what happens when humans try to bring something to life, whether it's the Judeo-Christian stories of the golem or James Cameron's The Terminator.

Why Westworld Is a 21st Century Golem Story  
In January 1818, a woman barely out of her teens unleashed a terrifying tale on the world: the story of a doctor who builds a creature from scavenged body parts, then recoils in horror, spurns it, and sees his friends and family destroyed by the monster. Two hundred years later, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is still essential reading for anyone working in science. The ill-fated creator she portrays has influenced public perception of the scientific enterprise unlike any other character, forever haunting the borderland between what science can do and what it should do.
The story has mutated and it has frequently been mangled. It has spawned countless books, plays, and movies—some pictured on these pages—and even a superhero comic. It has inspired technophobes and scientists alike. "Franken-" has become a passe-partout prefix for anything deemed unnatural or monstrous 
The lasting legacy of Frankenstein

The term “robot” is not new. It was coined as early as 1920, even before MEdia Dragon was born,  in a play by the Czech writer, Karel Capek, from a word meaning “forced labor.” But for many of us, until relatively recently, robots existed primarily in the realm of science fiction. Comic books and films often portrayed them as huge, monstrous creatures from outer space who wreaked havoc on everything around them until subdued by a Superman-like hero. They were a far cry from the innocent little machines at this kids’ party.
There are a variety of golem stories in Jewish lore. The best-known golem was created by the 16th-century Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (the Maharal of Prague), molded from clay to defend the Jews of Prague. In the end, however, the rabbi lost control of his creation. It ran amok and threatened the community until Rabbi Loew forcefully removed a piece of paper he had placed in its mouth with the mystical name of God on it. The golem dissolved back into a heap of clay.
From Prague Golems To Sydney Robots 


Robots of future should have 'Australian values', former Intel - Genevieve Bell  ...


Can the robot in your life learn right from wrong?

The Australian Financial Review 
This Golem patrolled the ghetto, protecting its citizens and carrying out useful jobs: sweeping the streets, conveying water and splitting firewood. All was harmonious until the day the rabbi forgot to disable the Golem for the Sabbath, as he was required to, and the creature embarked on a murderous ...

Watch: A Russian robot that's hiring humans for multinationals

Economic Time
A Russian startup named Stafory has created an artificial intelligence-powered robot – Vera –  (Meaning Faith) to hire humans for over 300 companies which include PepsiCo and L'Oreal among others. So, is this the future of recruitment? Will humans have to ensure that they impress robots before they get the option of ...

Here Are the Countries Safest From a Robot Job Revolution


Robota Work Golem is a Making

robot workers

Child poverty: Pale and hungry pupils ‘fill pockets with school food’BBC. Dickens would recognize this, or Blake


Gaius Publius: Stephen Hawking on What Killed the World of the Jetsons. Prelude to Thoughts on a Guaranteed Jobs Program



Hawking showed a not-surprisingly acute grasp on the implications of technological unemployment.

Wolf Richter: Collapse of Cryptocurrencies in Q1 – Even the Biggest Crashed 67% to 88%



Cyrptocurrencies’ wild ride is looking more and more like a skydive with no parachute.


How Facebook Blew It Fast Company


Recommendations for creating jobs and economic security in the U.S. Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute. Sandy Darity: “Not awful but job creation with a stigmatized guarantee. Not the universal job guarantee that we have in mind. Why pursue this indirect route to full employment when we can pursue a direct route?” Perhaps I’m overly jaded and cynical, but these recommendations look like the “Medicare Extra” of Jobs Guarantees to me.
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10 YEARS AFTER THE CRISIS. WSJ. A “striking piece of graphics journalism” that seems to have caused some agitahigh up on the WSJ masthead.
Iowa’s Employment Problem: Too Many Jobs, Not Enough People WSJ (DM). DM writes: “The words ‘wage/s,’ ‘salary/ies,’ and ‘pay’ do not appear until the comments section. E.g., ‘David Soto’: ‘I bet if they raised wages to $25/hr, they’d have applicants lined up out the parking lot.'”





The Lost History of an American Coup D’État The Atlantic. The Wilmington Massacre. Exceptionally ugly.

The rise of the information economy threatens traditional companies FT



Angus Taylor: Microsoft can host our data, US agencies won't see it.
The Cyber Security Minister says the APS must to move to the cloud to provide better services. He assured the media that citizen data will be safe from prying by foreign governments, including the United States.


APS casual workforce drops 25% in one year, ASIC out of the act.
The latest statistical bulletin is out, showing the Department of Human Services led a shift away from casual public servants in 2017, while the corporate regulator no longer has to employ staff under the Public Service Act.




Why prosecutions for welfare fraud have declined in Australia.
Since 2009, social security fraud prosecutions in Australia fell by 80% as a proportion of Centrelink’s customer base. This is remarkable considering government talk ups punitive approaches to welfare fraud.