Friday, April 21, 2017

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

As a writer who also values free information, I'm of two minds about this. But clearly having a freely accessible library that is the modern-day equivalent of the Library of Alexandria on steroids would be a boon to mankind, and destroying it would be a tragedy:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/?utm_source=hpfb

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AI Just Made 800 Years of Scientific Discovery in ONE Year!

A good summary of the stunning advances AI has already quietly achieved. https://youtu.be/oewpxwoj1dQ?si=tqwX6YhlKkOGjXLU