“The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them”
It’s the final  end quote from http://tinyurl.com/6bful7u on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Assistance (unrelated to my company) that comes out of a NYT writeup of IBM’s Jeopardy playing Watson.
Letter 2 Broadcast Dinosaurs Bent on Self-Destruction http://tinyurl.com/4gbjmb5
Episode 19: Starting over in a “Green field†revisited. http://tinyurl.com/4suc5bu New episode of The Terence and Philip Show: a clean start.
MPEG-LA starts patent move on VP8Â http://tinyurl.com/6eqphma
One of the things that has worried me about VP8/WebM is that Google has refused to indemnify users from patent issues. To me that’s a huge worry, and now MPEG-LA has started the process of establishing whether or not VP8 does (or does not) infringe any of its members’ patents.
Flash (Finally) Cuts CPU Usage With Hardware Acceleration http://tinyurl.com/6cvxsvs
At (long) last Adobe have released CPU acceleration across all platforms, including Mac and Linux.
Subscriptions: The Secret to a Sustainable Web Series? http://tinyurl.com/6jz8k5s
When All Content Is Personalized, Who Needs TV Networks? http://tinyurl.com/4rl3b3r
Can A Computer Do Your Job? http://tinyurl.com/4nt5kf8
The examples in the article are surprisingly “high end”, pitting humans choosing potential University entrants against a simple algorith, and the algorithm wins.
Could a computer do your job as a ‘creative’ individual? An editor, writer or producer?
iPhone App Identifies 2.6 Million TV Shows by “Listening†http://tinyurl.com/4nozwqh
Kevin Smith’s distrib plan: “eventize his picture” http://tinyurl.com/457kgee