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^{Mind Matters News
June 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence

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Researchers: Chatbots Generally Flunk Simple Logic Test

_{Mind Matters News
June 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence

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The AI researchers report “a dramatic breakdown of function and reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art models trained at the largest available scales”. Read More ›

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^{Jonathan Bartlett
June 10, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Security

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Will AI Replace Developers? A Tale for Our Times

_{Jonathan Bartlett
June 10, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Security

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Developers don’t just write software; they must understand the whole picture of how it will be used both now and down the road. Read More ›

^{Gary N. Smith
May 20, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Money

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LLMs Can’t Be Trusted for Financial Advice

_{Gary N. Smith
May 20, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Money

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It takes an experienced financial planner to distinguish between good and bad advice, so clients may as well skip the LLMs and go to the knowledgeable human. Read More ›

^{Robert J. Marks II
June 16, 2020
Artificial Intelligence

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At the Movies: Can AI Restore Blurred Images?

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 16, 2020
Artificial Intelligence

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^{George Gilder
April 30, 2020
Wireless

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5G is Feeling Under the Weather

_{George Gilder
April 30, 2020
Wireless

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I think 5G wireless — the vaunted next generation of high frequency mobile technology, touted for everything from self-driving cars to the internet of things (IoT) — just caught coronavirus. It’s gasping for breath and petitioning for a ventilator. Read More ›

^{George Gilder
April 29, 2020
Economic Policy, Money

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Quoting my Old Nemesis Stephen Roach

_{George Gilder
April 29, 2020
Economic Policy, Money

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My world is turning upside down. As a supply side conservative, I find myself quoting my old nemesis Stephen Roach on economics and Communist dictator Xi Jinping on technology. Read More ›

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^{George Gilder
April 28, 2020

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The Future of Wireless, Harvested by WiFi6

_{George Gilder
April 28, 2020

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Manifested today, without help from Bernie [Sanders], are the insidious crypto–socialist effects of the worldwide campaign for 5G — “fifth–generation” wireless. Depicted as a revolutionary innovation that will expand the speed and capacity of networks up to a hundredfold, 5G is mostly a rearguard movement of the telecom establishment in both the public and private sectors to protect the old regime of exclusive spectrum bands ultimately taxed and run by the government. Read More ›

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^{Hance Haney
April 27, 2020
Internet, Wireless

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A Home Run For Better WiFi

_{Hance Haney
April 27, 2020
Internet, Wireless

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There is a phenomenally better WiFi experience on the immediate horizon for those of us who may be working from home, consulting with our doctors from home or studying from home as a result of COVID-19. Read More ›

^{George Gilder
November 13, 2019
COSM

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Severing the Link: Cutting Ties with China

_{George Gilder
November 13, 2019
COSM

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I want to tell you more about the COSM — our technology summit last month outside Seattle. Among many high points, several Mount Rainier moments stand out a week later. And I’ll get to the TikTok threat soon enough. Read More ›

^{George Gilder
November 7, 2019
COSM

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Reporting Back from the COSM Conference

_{George Gilder
November 7, 2019
COSM

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Humans don’t decide what to build by making choices from some cosmic catalog of options given in advance. Instead, by inventing new technologies we rewrite the plan of the world. Peter Thiel, Zero to One. And we were off, for a three-day tour of the COSM, rewriting the plan of the world in time-money theory, 5G communications vision, artificial intelligence (AI), and crypto-internet architecture. It was my COSM conference at the Westin hotel in Bellevue, across the water and an ideological gulf from downtown Seattle. The conference began with the incandescence of Peter Thiel, declaring his belief in a fully human future that we choose and endow rather than in a machine singularity that chooses us and shunts us aside. Followed with Read More ›