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NewsBadly implemented AI could ‘jeopardize democracy,’ says French president Emmanuel Macron Pin
Kent Sharkey2-Apr-18 7:59
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NewsMicrosoft launches entry-level software development and AI courses Pin
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Dan Neely3-Apr-18 10:19
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News‘Highly critical’ CMS bug has left over 1 million sites open to attack Pin
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NewsCloudflare launches consumer DNS service to speed up the internet Pin
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Scott Serl1-Apr-18 21:33
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NewsGlitch launches its 'YouTube for app creators' Pin
Kent Sharkey1-Apr-18 9:45
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NewsThis week in programming: mostly harmless Pin
Kent Sharkey31-Mar-18 19:00
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Sander Rossel2-Apr-18 0:32
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NewsExcel is getting smarter Pin
Kent Sharkey31-Mar-18 18:45
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NewsAI-powered ambient computing is just getting started Pin
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PeejayAdams12-Apr-18 0:24
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Quote:
A heart monitor embedded in your shirt provides real-time data to a cardiologist, who can then send updated prescriptions to your pharmacist, who can, in turn, send an alert to your smartwatch while you are driving home to say that your medications are ready to pick up. Then your GPS can automatically update itself to route you to the pharmacy, where you arrive in your self-driving car and pay for the prescription using your smartphone.


Or the same idea adjusted for a more realistic future:

A heart monitor embedded in your shirt provides real-time data is farmed by Google en route to a "cardiologist" in a call centre in Mumbai, who can then send auto-generated prescriptions to Amazon who will provide the nearest available substitute item.

They then send an alert to the smartwatch that you're somewhat laughably still wearing in the future, while you are sitting in a traffic jam to say that your medications are ready to pick up.

Then your GPS can automatically update itself to route you to the Amazon pick-up point.

After a major incident involving some roadworks that your GPS was unaware of and a lengthy trip to the local hospital, you eventually arrive in your self-driving car (in which you have already spent three hours clearing up after the previous occupant) and attempt to pay for the prescription using your smartphone, only to find that the promised 8G signal is yet not available in your area and that the legacy 6G and 7G services have been axed to make way for it and have resort to real money which is only available at a bank fifteen miles back in the direction that you have just come from.

On arriving home, late and tired, you discover that hackers have been monitoring your security system and have been fully aware of your 15 hour absence from home. Your house has been burgled and there is something on the carpet that did not emanate from your dog. To make things worse, your IoT enabled cooker has cremated your dinner and everywhere on JustEat has just stopped serving.

Finally, you take your new heart meds and realise that they are somewhat inappropriate for your previously mild angina. Clutching your chest as your head starts spinning, you find yourself pining for the days when you could simply have picked up the correct prescription from your doctor's surgery and taken it to the pharmacy next door.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.

NewsEvolutionary computation has been promising self-programming machines for 60 years – so where are they? Pin
Kent Sharkey31-Mar-18 18:45
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