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How Artificial Intelligence Is Going To Change Our Lives
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You are most probably reading this article on a smartphone or a computer. When you ask the time by just saying “what’s the time” to Siri on iPhone or to Google Assistant on Android or Cortana on Windows, you are using artificial intelligence. In the last ten years, improvements in artificial intelligence have been quite significant. But more are coming.What is Artificial Intelligence?If human thinking and thoughts can be introduced in a computer or computer-like devices, then it is called #ai or Artificial Intelligence. If you have seen science fiction movies or read novels, then you know about that. An artificial intelligent agent is a system that can perceive its environment and by that, it can take actions for maximizing its chances of success.Today, artificial intelligence is known as (...)

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#blockchain: Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?
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This article was written by our Guest Writer, Nilesh Agarwal.Blockchain is a simple concept but arduous to implement. It has the potential to radically revamp governance, money, agriculture and pretty much everything else especially in developing countries.There are essentially five points that one needs to understand when they talk about blockchain:It is a digital ledger consisting of economic transactions that could be programmed to record anything and everything of value and not just financial transactions.Blockchain is immutable, i.e., to hack into a blockchain network, one would require whopping amounts of computational power.It is consensus-driven, every transaction occurring on the network is authentic and all participants agree on a consensus on the status of the ledger. Proof (...)

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How the world will look like in 2050?
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More surveillanceDigital monitoring becomes cheaper and easier every year, so there is no reason why the governments and corporations will stop watching us unless we they are forced to do so.We will most likely see same type of public surveillance and social scoring as they have in China, although it will be far more advanced, and unfortunately we will not be able to do anything to stop it.First Libertarian (Anarcho-Capital) government will be bornThe biggest obstacle in creating new free state is the lack of free land. All the land has been divided between governments long time ago, and they are not willing give any of it, even if it’s purchased from them.However #future technologies will allow people to create artificial islands and other lands masses in terra nullius more cheaply and (...)

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