Smart people with transferable skills.
As Russia sees tech brain drain, other nations hope to gain
Russia’s tech workers are looking for safer and more secure professional pastures.
By one estimate, up to 70,000 computer specialists, spooked by a sudden frost in the business and political climate, have bolted the country since Russia invaded Ukraine five weeks ago. Many more are expected to follow.
For some countries, Russia’s loss is being seen as their potential gain and an opportunity to bring fresh expertise to their own high-tech industries.
AI as an excuse? What would the mine look for?
Russia claims 'smart' landmines used in Ukraine only target soldiers
Russia says its POM-3 landmines use artificial intelligence to distinguish between soldiers and civilians, though arms experts doubt if it really works
Russia appears to be using anti-personnel mines in Ukraine that are equipped with artificial intelligence that is claimed to be able to distinguish between soldiers and civilians. While the mines supposedly comply with international law, experts doubt whether they are any less dangerous to civilians.
A voice from the past.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke to a packed crowd at USI. Here are 5 takeaways.
Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Wozniak presented the contrarian ideas he’s well known for to a packed house at the University of Southern Indiana Wednesday night.
… Here are five takeaways from Wozniak's speech and the subsequent discussion:
Two AIs walk into a bar...
https://bigthink.com/the-future/artificial-general-intelligence-impossible/
The subtle art of language: why artificial general intelligence might be impossible
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
Tools for eliminating lawyers!
https://thenextweb.com/news/can-chatrooms-replace-courtrooms
Can chatrooms replace courtrooms?
Driven to cyberspace by the pandemic, courts across the country purchased chatroom-like tools designed to help people resolve disagreements without the need for a full-on lawsuit, judge, or hearing.
Online dispute resolution, as it’s known, had already been growing in popularity as a means to make often costly, slow-moving court processes more efficient. The tools, pioneered by eBay and PayPal, were designed to settle millions of disputes in their own businesses quickly and with as little need for human oversight as possible.
But, it turns out, taking an e-commerce dispute platform and imbuing it with legal authority over everything from small claims cases to medical debt suits, child custody negotiations and eviction proceedings has its downsides. A lot of people either don’t understand the systems or don’t want to use them. Legal aid advocates also worry that the systems deepen imbalances of power between some parties.
Not sure I agree. Seems like removing facts won’t make writing clearer?
https://pudding.cool/2022/02/plain/
What makes writing more readable?
Writing text that can be understood by as many people as possible seems like an obvious best practice. But from news media to legal guidance to academic research, the way we write often creates barriers to who can read it. Plain language—a style of writing that uses simplified sentences, everyday vocabulary, and clear structure—aims to remove those barriers.
… Let’s walk through how Rebecca, an expert in plain language, translates a text to be more readable. We'll use an excerpt from her translation of a ProPublica article by Amy Silverman in the following example.
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