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Smart Living on the Blockchain: A 10 Minute Catch-Up

Tanmayee DeshprabhuFebruary 21, 2020March 4, 2020013 mins

Bitcoin – it is everywhere. Last year was the tenth anniversary of the famous Bitcoin whitepaper by “Satoshi Nakamoto”, but the future of cryptocurrencies remains uncertain as it is shrouded in skepticism and a lack of familiarity outside of the tech community. However, Bitcoin’s underpinning technology, blockchain, has a rather more optimistic outlook. In a…

More humans needed for robots to take us over

The Oxford ScientistJune 14, 2019April 26, 202004 mins

Regardless of how advanced our AI algorithms are, they have to be trained by humans in order to be smart. For an algorithm to accurately recognize an apple is an apple, it needs to be taught with thousands to millions of pictures of apples. Some algorithms even have to be trained in culturally specific ways….