We’ve completed a study of the top artificial intelligences in film and came away with a new appreciation of how screenwrites are depicting this emerging technology. Here’s our ranking of AIs’ appearances on the silver screen and what kind of statement each movie makes about our humanity.
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23andMe: DNA and blood ties taken to the next level
Just a quick word about a website and service I had heard about but never really looked into until I sat next to Esther Dyson at the Aspen Institute roundtable I attended last week. Esther — who’s on the company’s board, an investor and a customer — gave me and VC Arjun Gupta a demo […]
From wolf to dog
Happy to Earth Day! I remember taking part in the first Earth Day in the ’70s in New Jersey by helping set up a recycling program when I was just a pup. To mark the day, tonight I watched Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel and Nature on PBS. Tonight’s Nature focused was titled Dogs […]
Review of Ray Kurzweil’s ‘The Singularity is Near’
It’s a good thing summer is over, because Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is anything but a beach book. One of the most important thinkers of our time, Kurzweil has followed up his earlier works — most notably The Age of Spiritual Machines — with a work of startling breadth […]