AI

AI bots are ubiquitous, yet potentially mind-altering in major ways. From digital assistants like Siri and Alexa to social media to support lines for your appliances, you are interacting with programs every single day. Do they have the collective influence to change your thinking? Or worse, the way you think? This article should be read start to finish. Then read it two more times - Joe Allen is NOT a bot.

Schmidt is a member of the Trilateral Commission.  While at Google, he pioneered secretive "surveillance capitalism" using AI that skirted and defied legal control while making multiplied billions in the process. Now he is helping to write AI legislation in Washington without publicly declaring his own massive investments in AI.

Technocrats have always been addicted to data, but now there is not enough real-world data to satisfy the lust for more. The answer? Create fake data that is "synthesized" by other AI programs to be fed into other prime AI algorithms that are being "trained" for certain outcomes. So, is fake data really better than real data? You decide.

TN has been following quantum computing development since its inception. For all the speculation about potential commercial or government uses of such a computer, the main takeaway is that it holds the potential to break all encryption codes on the Internet, exposing every password, public/private encryption keys and hence, everything.