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Brief Q&A on Artificial General Intelligence
Albert Wenger – Dec 17, 2015
There has been a fair bit of coverage of the potential dangers that an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) might pose for humanity. Here some questions about AGI with my currently best answers. 1. What is the difference between AI and [...] Read more
The Great Bot Rush of 2015-16
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2015
Natural language is the general purpose “API” for humans and it seems it may become the same for software. Bots are all the rage on several platforms including Telegram and now Slack. Facebook is experimenting with M. There are bots [...] Read more
Book Update
Albert Wenger – Dec 15, 2015
As more regular readers of Continuations will know I have been working on a book that pulls together many of the ideas I have been writing about here. So where does this effort stand? The good news is that over [...] Read more
Ask Me Anything: Question 5
Albert Wenger – Dec 14, 2015
This time in my Ask Me Anything series, I got a tough question about what kind of institutions we need to provide fairness in the age of the Internet. For example akin to what Public Libraries were in the age [...] Read more
Capital Is No Longer Scarce
Albert Wenger – Dec 10, 2015
Capital is no longer scarce. This is an assertion I made a while back in my post “Land, Capital, Attention: This Time it Is the Same.” Today I want to elaborate on that a bit. Estimates put global investible capital [...] Read more
Forevery App: (Re)Discover Your Photos
Albert Wenger – Dec 9, 2015
If you are like me and use your phone as your only camera, then eventually you wind up with thousands of pictures in your camera roll. That often means that when you want to show off a specific picture to [...] Read more
Ask Me Anything: Questions 3 & 4
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2015
For your Sunday viewing pleasure, here are the next two questions and answers in my Ask Me Anything series. Question 3 is about an area of physics – dark matter and energy – that I don’t know anything about: And [...] Read more
The Fog of Startups (And Why It Doesn’t Need to Be That Way)
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2015
Have you ever been in a super stressful situation that afterwards, when things had calmed down, possibly weeks or months later felt like it was part of a dream or a movie? Well startups can be a lot like that [...] Read more
SimScale
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2015
We are excited to announce our investment in Munich-based SimScale. SimScale makes complex engineering simulations, such as mechanical stress and fluid flows, available to anyone in the world with a web browser. These kinds of simulations were pioneered in the [...] Read more