Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 79 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We’re in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we’ve gotten past denial and anger, and we’re now sliding into bargaining and depression. I’ve been tasked with using Ars… Read More »
Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. reader comments 63 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory when you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude… Read More »
reader comments 79 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story Every day, some little piece of logic constructed by very specific bits of artificial intelligence technology makes decisions that affect how you experience the world. It could be the ads that get served up to you on social media or shopping sites,… Read More »
Ghostbusters has been in my life for as long as I can remember. No, really. Some of my earliest childhood memories involve watching the flick with my dad (and missing 75 percent of the jokes), strapping on a backpack and teaming up with friends to take down spooks, specters and ghosts on the school playground,… Read More »
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of some kind of cool integrated battlespace AR/VR interface kind of thing. Jackie Niam / Getty Images reader comments 38 with 33 posters participating Share this story Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously (or infamously) said in 2004, “You go to war with the army you have, not the army… Read More »
Enlarge / Believe it or not, this fictional version of NORAD shows off the idea of the “connected battlespace” even better than the real thing. reader comments 60 with 37 posters participating, including story author Share this story Since the earliest days of warfare, commanders of forces in the field have sought greater awareness and… Read More »
Enlarge / Choose your weapons. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 236 with 145 posters participating Share this story The Future of Collaboration View more stories With many organizations now having a significant portion of staff working remotely—and as things are looking, this is going to be the longterm reality—the old model of how… Read More »
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of how little your cat cares about your video call. reader comments 59 with 44 posters participating Share this story The Future of Collaboration View more stories The Friday “beer-thirty” Zoom conferences began for me not too long into the lockdown. A co-worker scheduled them as a form of stress release… Read More »