Zuckerberg released an op-ed in the Washington Post asking to be regulated. He paints this as a win for consumers, but in reality, it's a call to put a government wall around Facebook to prevent competition. We look at the details of his letter and discuss Google's failed AI ethics board and Trump's recent Executive Order on American AI dominance. 

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Ep 20: Musk vs. Zuck and the Future of AI

Zuckerberg's WaPo Op-Ed

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Regulations Explained

Google Cancels AI Ethics Board

Dangers of Government Funded Artificial Intelligence

EU Article 11 and 13 

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Google DeepMind releases the long awaited AlphaStar in a high-profile demonstration for the public which shows it besting world champs in the game of Starcraft 2. We discuss the challenge and some of the interesting results from this latest round of man vs. machine.

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Ep 13: AI's new Alpha Dog

Google DeepMind Blog

DeepMind Video

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China has rolled out its latest effort in maintaining control of the population Zhima or Sesame Credit. This is a system designed to rate how good of a citizen you are based on the whims of the Communist Party. It tracks your credit - like western systems - but goes deeper into what you buy, what you post, and who your friends are in an attempt to nudge you into the party approved direction. 

We take a deep dive in this topic today and look at some of the potential ramifications of such a system. Could something like this be coming to western nations as well?

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Episode 7: Will Democracy Survive the AI Revolution?

Inside China’s Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking

What Can We Learn from China’s Sesame Credit?

No, China isn’t Black Mirror

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Home assistants like the Amazon Echo have become increasingly common in households in the US and Europe. What is rarely seen, however, is the vast infrastructure and complex array of technology, materials, and labor needed to produce and provide these small devices. We break down an article that attempts to map out all of the myriad of inputs and trace them to the production of a simple voice command - and dive deep into the economic and ideological presuppositions which underlie their critique.

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anatomyof.ai

I, Pencil

Böhm-Bawerk's Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest

Labor and Capitalist Exploitation: Böhm-Bawerk and the Close of Marx's System

Episode 70: Ai in the Cloud and Around the World with Mark Sears

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We interview Mark Sears founder and CEO of the company CloudFactory - a Kathmandu based AI firm. We discuss Mark's philosophy and how this technology can bring new jobs and opportunities to people far away from the normal tech hubs of the world.

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CloudFactory

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Save Your Internet!

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Why the Whole World Should be Up In Arms About EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe

Episode 53: Billion Dollar Data Protection Boondoggle

Julia Reda's Site

EU Copyright Law Isn't Great: It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse

ICO Levels First Ever GDPR Fine Against AggreateIQ

Fleeing Facebook App Users Realise What They Agreed to in Apps Years Ago

Vote Leave Fined and Reported to Police by Electoral Commission

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Bloomberg reports this week that Sentient AI - a company we featured in an interview on this podcast - is liquidating their trading business after two years of operations. Sentient isn't alone, AI hedge funds have been struggling to keep pace with investors who park their money in an S&P 500 index fund. What makes this such a difficult domain for fund managers? Is AI poorly suited? What can we learn from economics and Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) to help investors, managers, and individuals?

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AI Hedge Fund is said to Liquidate after Less than Two Years

The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI

Episodes Mentioned:

Episode 64: Evolutionary AI with Risto Miikkulainen

Episode 1: AI of Wall Street

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Story 1: Universal Basic Income

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/swiss-village-says-yes-to-2-500-franc-a-month-free-money-trial?srnd=premium-europe

Story 2: Access to Software Developers

https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018

Story 3: Crypto currency value drop

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/crypto-wipeout-deepens-to-640-billion-as-ether-leads-declines

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Since the publication of Moneyball, sports and advanced statistics have entered the mainstream. Other sports have gradually jumped on board with less than stellar results from Die Mannschaft's partnership with SAP that resulted in an early loss in exit at the hands of the South Koreans in the most recent World Cup, to the Cleveland Browns taking an analytics driven approach and then winning one game in two seasons. What makes sports and AI so difficult in these domains and what can we learn about sports applications to help us in other industries?

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