{"id":4006,"date":"2019-11-15T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2024-08-08T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:26:59","slug":"the-tipping-point-2019-week-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/15\/the-tipping-point-2019-week-46\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tipping Point – 2019 Week 46"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We believe that everyone’s future can be richer, happier and more efficient<\/strong>. But you can’t embrace that future unless you take the first, most crucial step: being informed about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to The Tipping Point<\/a>, a regular post on Future Tech for people who don’t have enough time to read all the full news stories. Instead we shorten them, concentrate everything into one post, put that in your face, and you have to suck it. So let’s go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Weeks News!<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

AI: OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share<\/a>
The Verge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“GPT-2 is part of a new breed of text-generation systems that have impressed experts with their ability to generate coherent text from minimal prompts. The system was trained on eight million text documents scraped from the web and responds to text snippets supplied by users. Feed it a fake headline, for example, and it will write a news story; give it the first line of a poem and it\u2019ll supply a whole verse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMPUTE: Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers\u2019 Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional<\/a>
EFF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers\u2019 electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry are unconstitutional. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CRYPTO: Brave Launches Next-Generation Browser that Puts Users in Charge of Their Internet Experience with Unmatched Privacy and Rewards<\/a>
Brave<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact online by giving users a private, safer, and 3-6x faster browsing experience, while funding the Web through a new attention-based platform of privacy-preserving advertisements and rewards. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEDICINE: The world\u2019s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here<\/a>
Technology Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The baby-picking test is being offered by a New Jersey startup company, Genomic Prediction, whose plans we first reported on two years ago. The company says it can use DNA measurements to predict which embryos from an IVF procedure are least likely to end up with any of 11 different common diseases. In the next few weeks it’s set to release case studies on its first clients.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROBOTICS: Fall is here and packs of robot dogs are frolicking in the leaves<\/a>
The Verge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If you\u2019ve not experienced these delights before, then the video above from MIT\u2019s biomimetics lab will give you the basic idea. The bots you can see are the university\u2019s Mini Cheetah: a lightweight and modular quadruped that\u2019s been under development for years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPACE: The second Starlink mission goes off without a hitch!<\/a>
SpaceX<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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