Monthly Archives: May 2018

Detroit: Become Human – Review – Jump Dash Roll

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Detroit: Become Human is Quantic Dream’s latest interactive movie, following on from Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain. Beyond the mightily impressive tech is the story, the game and the overall experience one worth your time? Jump Dash Roll has passed the Turing test and tried to answer that very question.

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Source: PS4 News – Detroit: Become Human – Review – Jump Dash Roll

Google Promises Ethical Principles To Guide Development of Military AI

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google is drawing up a set of guidelines that will steer its involvement in developing AI tools for the military, according to a report from The New York Times. What exactly these guidelines will stipulate isn’t clear, but Google says they will include a ban on the use of artificial intelligence in weaponry. The principles are expected to be announced in full in the coming weeks. They are a response to the controversy over the company’s decision to develop AI tools for the Pentagon that analyze drone surveillance footage.

Internal emails obtained by the Times show that Google was aware of the upset this news might cause. Chief scientist at Google Cloud, Fei-Fei Li, told colleagues that they should “avoid at ALL COSTS any mention or implication of AI” when announcing the Pentagon contract. “Weaponized AI is probably one of the most sensitized topics of AI — if not THE most. This is red meat to the media to find all ways to damage Google,” said Li. But Google never ended up making the announcement, and it has since been on the back foot defending its decision. The company says the technology it’s helping to build for the Pentagon simply “flags images for human review” and is for “non-offensive uses only.” The contract is also small by industry standards — worth just $9 million to Google, according to the Times.

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Source: Slashdot – Google Promises Ethical Principles To Guide Development of Military AI

Use a To-Do App to Take Notes

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When out and about, I used to put all my ideas into a pocket notebook. Then I switched to emailing myself from my phone. Then I tried the Notes app. Now I put them in Wunderlist, a to-do app. It’s not my favorite to-do app—Microsoft even released another app to replace it—because I use my favorite to-do app for my…

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Source: LifeHacker – Use a To-Do App to Take Notes

Rare Studio Head on Possibility of Other Studios Working With Its IP

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According to Craig Duncan, the studio is open to the possibility should the right opportunity arise. “It’s absolutely not out of the realm of possibility, but not only does the ‘why’ have to be right, but the team, and the people, and ‘who’ have to be right,” Duncan said with regard to future collaborations. “Rare is the guardian of Rare’s IP,” he added, noting people don’t want to see the studio’s beloved franchises revived poorly….

Rare Studio Head on Possibility of Other Studios Working With Its IP

Source: PS4 News – Rare Studio Head on Possibility of Other Studios Working With Its IP